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J Am Chem Soc
October 2023
Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.
A proposed low-energy alternative to the separation of alkanes from alkenes by energy-intensive cryogenic distillation is separation by porous adsorbents. Unfortunately, most adsorbents preferentially take up the desired, high-value major component alkene, requiring frequent regeneration. Adsorbents with inverse selectivity for the minor component alkane would enable the direct production of purified, reagent-grade alkene, greatly reducing global energy consumption.
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March 2023
NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6102, USA.
J Am Chem Soc
September 2021
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites within certain zeolites and metal-organic frameworks can strongly adsorb a wide array of substrates. While many classical examples involve electron-poor metal cations that interact with adsorbates largely through physical interactions, unsaturated electron-rich metal centers housed within porous frameworks can often chemisorb guests amenable to redox activity or covalent bond formation. Despite the promise that materials bearing such sites hold in addressing myriad challenges in gas separations and storage, very few studies have directly interrogated mechanisms of chemisorption at open metal sites within porous frameworks.
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August 2021
Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
Adsorption-based cooling is an energy-efficient renewable-energy technology that can be driven using low-grade industrial waste heat and/or solar heat. Here, we report the first exploration of fluorocarbon adsorption using porous covalent organic polymers (COPs) for this cooling application. High fluorocarbon R134a equilibrium capacities and unique overall linear-shaped isotherms are revealed for the materials, namely COP-2 and COP-3.
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July 2020
Department of Chemistry , University of California, Berkeley , CA 94720 , USA . Email:
A new, air-stable, permanently porous uranium(iv) metal-organic framework U(bdc) (, bdc = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) was synthesized and its H and CH adsorption properties were investigated. Low temperature adsorption isotherms confirm strong adsorption of both gases in the framework at low pressures. gas-dosed neutron diffraction experiments with different D loadings revealed a rare example of cooperative framework contraction (Δ = -7.
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