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Electrophoretic Crystallization of Ultrathin High-performance Metal-organic Framework Membranes
Published on: August 16, 2018
High separation capacity and selectivity of C2 hydrocarbons over methane within a microporous metal-organic framework
Yabing He1, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang
1Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at san Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249-0698, USA.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|January 21, 2012
Abstract:
A separation story! A microporous metal-organic framework (UTSA-34) of non-interpenetrated binodal (4,6)-connected ybh network with interconnected cages of about 12.8 Å has been realised to exhibit highly selective separation of C(2) hydrocarbons from methane with a separation capacity of 3.0 mol kg(-1) and selectivity of 35 at room temperature (see figure).
