Gas/vapour separation using ultra-microporous metal–organic frameworks: insights into the structure/separation relationship

Karim Adil; Youssef Belmabkhout; Renjith S. Pillai; Amandine Cadiau; Prashant Bhatt; Ayalew Hussen Assen Assen; Guillaume Maurin; Mohamed Eddaoudi

doi:10.1039/c7cs00153c

Gas/vapour separation using ultra-microporous metal–organic frameworks: insights into the structure/separation relationship

Karim Adil, Youssef Belmabkhout, Renjith S. Pillai, Amandine Cadiau, Prashant Bhatt, Ayalew Hussen Assen Assen, Guillaume Maurin, Mohamed Eddaoudi

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The separation of related molecules with similar physical/chemical properties is of prime industrial importance and practically entails a substantial energy penalty, typically necessitating the operation of energy-demanding low temperature fractional distillation techniques. Certainly research efforts, in academia and industry alike, are ongoing with the main aim to develop advanced functional porous materials to be adopted as adsorbents for the effective and energy-efficient separation of various important commodities. Of special interest is the subclass of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with pore aperture sizes below 5-7 Å, namely ultra-microporous MOFs, which in contrast to conventional zeolites and activated carbons show great prospects for addressing key challenges in separations pertaining to energy and environmental sustainability, specifically materials for carbon capture and separation of olefin/paraffin, acetylene/ethylene, linear/branched alkanes, xenon/krypton, etc. In this tutorial review we discuss the latest developments in ultra-microporous MOF adsorbents and their use as separating agents via thermodynamics and/or kinetics and molecular sieving. Appreciably, we provide insights into the distinct microscopic mechanisms governing the resultant separation performances, and suggest a plausible correlation between the inherent structural features/topology of MOFs and the associated gas/vapour separation performance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3402-3402
Number of pages	1
Journal	Chem. Soc. Rev.
Volume	46
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cs00153c
State	Published - May 30 2017

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2018-05-17
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): FCC-/1/1972-19-01, FCC/1/1972-20-01
Acknowledgements: Part of the research reported in this publication was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under FCC-/1/1972-19-01, FCC/1/1972-20-01 and Center Partnership Fund Program-2910 program. The research leading to part of these results has also received funding from the European Community Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 608490 (project M4CO2) and the ANR ‘CHESDENS’ (ANR-13-SEED-0001-01). G. M. thanks the Institut Universitaire de France for its support.

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Gas/vapour separation using ultra-microporous metal–organic frameworks: insights into the structure/separation relationship

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