Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Efficient propyne/propadiene separation by microporous crystalline physiadsorbents

  • Yun-Lei Peng,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Chaonan Jin,
  • Cheng-Hua Deng,
  • Yanming Zhao,
  • Wansheng Liu,
  • Katherine A. Forrest,
  • Rajamani Krishna,
  • Yao Chen,
  • Tony Pham,
  • Brian Space,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Michael J. Zaworotko,
  • Zhenjie Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25980-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The separation of propadiene from propyne/propadiene mixtures remains challenging. Here, the authors report a sorbent screening protocol and show that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with open metal sites and cage-based molecule traps exhibit high performance for propyne/propadiene separation.