Intermediate-sized molecular sieving of styrene from larger and smaller analogues

• Published in: Nature materials Vol. 18; no. 9; pp. 994 - 998
• Main Authors: Zhou, Dong-Dong, Chen, Pin, Wang, Chao, Wang, Sha-Sha, Du, Yunfei, Yan, Hui, Ye, Zi-Ming, He, Chun-Ting, Huang, Rui-Kang, Mo, Zong-Wen, Huang, Ning-Yu, Zhang, Jie-Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 119/118; 639/301/299/1013; 639/638/298/921; Adsorption; Apertures; Benzene; Biomaterials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer simulation; Condensed Matter Physics; Ethylbenzene; Flexibility; Hydrocarbons; Hydrophobicity; Materials Science; Metal-organic frameworks; Nanotechnology; Optical and Electronic Materials; Organic chemistry; Regeneration; Selectivity; Styrene; Styrenes; Toluene

Molecular sieving can lead to ultrahigh selectivity and low regeneration energy because it completely excludes all larger molecules via a size restriction mechanism. However, it allows adsorption of all molecules smaller than the pore aperture and so separations of complicated mixtures can be hinder...