Topology meets MOF chemistry for pore-aperture fine tuning: ftw-MOF platform for energy-efficient separations via adsorption kinetics or molecular sieving†
Dong-Xu Xue,Amandine Cadiau,Łukasz J. Weseliński,Hao Jiang,Prashant M. Bhatt,Aleksander Shkurenko,Lukasz Wojtas,Chen Zhijie,Youssef Belmabkhout,Karim Adil,Mohamed Eddaoudi
Abstract
Herein we demonstrate how the combined use of the molecular building block (MBB) approach and reticular chemistry allows the fabrication of a highly stable, ultra-microporous metal–organic framework (MOF) that is an efficient sorbent for the challenging separation of propane/propylene.