EFFICIENT LIGHT GAS SEPARATIONS WITH MOFS VIA PREDICTIVE MODELING AND TUNED SYNTHESIS

摘要

The ability to design, tune and successfully test porous crystalline materials allows for the development and commercialization of materials for many different environmental and energy applications. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown great potential in challenging separations of molecules with very similar kinetic diameters. One area of strong focus in our lab is toward a fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationship of selective O2 over N2 adsorption in MOFs. Emphasis is placed on identifying key structural features for highly selective oxygen adsorption, leading to efficiency improvements through oxy-fuel combustion.