High CO2/CH4 and C2 hydrocarbons/CH4 selectivity in a chemically robust porous coordination polymer

Jingui Duan, Masakazu Higuchi, Satoshi Horike, Maw Lin Foo, Koya Prabhakara Rao, Yasutaka Inubushi, Tomohiro Fukushima, Susumu Kitagawa

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Abstract

A new porous coordination polymer, ([La(BTB)H2O]·solvent (1âŠguest)), is synthesized. Gas adsorption, ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) and breakthrough experiments of it exhibits high CH 4 separation capability toward CO2 and C2 hydrocarbons at 273 K. In addition, this also shows good water and chemical stability, in particular, it is stable at pH = 14 at 100 °C, which is unprecedented for carboxylate-based porous coordination polymers. Furthermore, the effective adsorption site for separation is revealed by using an in situ diffuse reflectance IR fourier transform (DRIFT) spectra study.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3525-3530
Number of pages6
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume23
Issue number28
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Jul 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • C2 hydrocarbons
  • CH separation
  • CO/CH separation
  • Porous coordination polymer
  • chemical stability
  • in situ DRIFT spectra

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