Abstract
Ligand functionalization is a powerful approach for modifying the electronic structure of metal-organic frameworks when targeting the optimal electronic properties for photocatalysis and photovoltaics. However, its effect on the charge carrier lifetimes and recombination pathways remains unexplored. In this work, first-principles simulations, including nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, are performed for the representative TiO2-based metal-organic framework systems MIL-125-X to unravel the impact of ligand functionalization on the nonradiative electron-hole recombination process, decoherence rates, and phonon modes giving the largest contribution to the nonradiative decay. Nonradiative recombination rates, simulated using the PBE0 density functional, are in excellent agreement with experiment. The ligand functionalization in MIL-125-X influences the recombination rates, unraveling the trend opposite to the evolution of the band gap and affecting the nonadiabatic coupling coefficients. Ligand modification impacts the phonon modes, which contribute most to the recombination process, altering the distribution between soft phonon modes and vibrational modes associated with specific structural motifs.
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