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  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Chemical separations are vital for high-purity commodities.
  • Membrane separation offers advantages over traditional methods like distillation due to energy efficiency and operational simplicity.
  • Molecular sieve membranes (MSMs) are porous materials crucial for advanced separations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To summarize the evolution of MSMs based on the dimensionality of their building blocks.
  • To highlight strategies for overcoming limitations in classical MSMs, such as intercrystalline gaps.
  • To introduce novel MSM designs, including nanosheet and supramolecule array membranes (SAMs).

Main Methods:

  • Reviewing studies on MSMs with 0D, 2D, and 3D building blocks.
  • Discussing strategies to close intercrystalline gaps, including microwave synthesis and modular integration.
  • Highlighting the development and scale-up of Linde type A (LTA) zeolite membranes and metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheet membranes.

Main Results:

  • Intergrowth of 3D crystals in classical MSMs leads to selectivity-limiting gaps.
  • Strategies like microwave synthesis successfully reduced these gaps, enabling large-scale ethanol dehydration units.
  • 2D nanosheet MSMs offer a balance of permeation and selectivity by minimizing mass-transfer resistance and intercrystalline gaps.
  • 0D supramolecule array membranes (SAMs) eliminate intercrystalline gaps, enabling ultraprecise molecular sieving.

Conclusions:

  • The dimensionality of building blocks fundamentally dictates MSM architecture and performance.
  • Addressing intercrystalline gaps through innovative designs is key to advancing MSM technology.
  • Multidimensional MSMs offer synergistic solutions to industrial separation challenges, with potential to replace existing technologies.