Enhanced Breakthrough Efficiency by a Chemically Stable Porous Coordination Polymer with Optimized Nanochannel

Haifei Cao, Zhiyong Lu, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, I. Ya Chang, Yang Wang, Zhifeng Xin, Jingui Duan, Wanqin Jin

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Abstract

High separation efficiency is very important for process of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) in the industry. Herein, we propose a fine design of chemically stable porous coordination polymers (PCPs) with optimized nanochannel by strategy of inserting and shifting shortest alkyl group on T-shaped ligand. Remarkably, the synergistic effect of optimized nanochannel, unique crystal morphology and fitted channel enable sharply enhanced breakthrough efficiency of C2H6/4/CH4, 1.17 or 0.77 g of CH4 can be separated from corresponding dual mixtures (2/8, v/v) by 1 g of NTU-25 at 273 K, which was further validated and understood by controlled experiments and density functional theory (DFT) computations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)39025-39031
Number of pages7
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume10
Issue number45
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Nov 2018

Keywords

  • breakthrough efficiency
  • chemically stable porous coordination polymer
  • inserted/shifted methyl group
  • methane purification
  • optimized nanochannel

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