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Fine Tuning The Pore Surface In Zirconium Metal−Organic Frameworks For Selective Ethane/Ethylene Separation, Yuchen Hu, Yanshu Shi, Yi Xie, Rebecca Shu Hui Khoo, Christian Fiankor, Xu Zhang,, Banglin Chen, Jian Zhang
Fine Tuning The Pore Surface In Zirconium Metal−Organic Frameworks For Selective Ethane/Ethylene Separation, Yuchen Hu, Yanshu Shi, Yi Xie, Rebecca Shu Hui Khoo, Christian Fiankor, Xu Zhang,, Banglin Chen, Jian Zhang
Chemistry Department: Faculty Publications
Ethylene is an important chemical feedstock for production of polymers and high-value organic chemicals, and yet its conventional purification process is plagued with high consumption of energy. Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) provide a suitable adsorption platform for selective ethane/ ethylene separation thanks to their structural diversity, tunable pore characteristics, designable pore sizes, and high pore volumes. Although there are empirical design rules like avoiding open metal sites and creating nonpolar pore surfaces for development of adsorptive MOFs, it is still challenging to design robust MOFs that can realize direct ethane-selective separation. Herein, we systematically designed and synthesized three Zr-MOFs based on …