Separation of Hydrocarbons with a Microporous Metal-Organic Framework

摘要

The past decade has witnessed a rapid growth of interest in the field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Microporous metal-organic framework (MMOF) materials, a subset of the general family of MOFs, are of particular attraction owing to their potential application in gas separation, storage, molecular magnetism, and heterogeneous catalysis.[1] While many new structures are being discovered each year, the gas-adsorption properties of only a very small number of them have been investigated, which has prompted us to explore the scope of their unique sorption properties.