Emerging applications of zeolites in catalysis, separation and host–guest assembly

Y Li, J Yu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Zeolites are a family of microporous crystalline materials, which, since the 1940s, have had
an indispensable role in the chemical industry as catalysts, adsorbents and ion exchangers …

Confinement in a zeolite and zeolite catalysis

Y Chai, W Dai, G Wu, N Guan, L Li - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Zeolites, accompanied by their initial discovery as natural mines and the
subsequent large-scale commercial production, have played indispensable roles in various …

A molecular sieve with ultrafast adsorption kinetics for propylene separation

J Cui, Z Zhang, L Yang, J Hu, A **, Z Yang, Y Zhao… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The design of molecular sieves is vital for gas separation, but it suffers from a long-standing
issue of slow adsorption kinetics due to the intrinsic contradiction between molecular sieving …

Benchmark single-step ethylene purification from ternary mixtures by a customized fluorinated anion-embedded MOF

Y Jiang, Y Hu, B Luan, L Wang, R Krishna, H Ni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Ethylene (C2H4) purification from multi-component mixtures by physical adsorption
is a great challenge in the chemical industry. Herein, we report a GeF62-anion embedded …

Incorporation of multiple supramolecular binding sites into a robust MOF for benchmark one-step ethylene purification

E Wu, XW Gu, D Liu, X Zhang, H Wu, W Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
One-step adsorption separation of C2H4 from ternary C2 hydrocarbon mixtures remains an
important and challenging goal for petrochemical industry. Current physisorbents either …

Orthogonal-array dynamic molecular sieving of propylene/propane mixtures

H Zeng, M **e, T Wang, RJ Wei, XJ **e, Y Zhao, W Lu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Rigid molecular sieving materials work well for small molecules with the complete exclusion
of large ones,–, and molecules with matching physiochemical properties may be separated …

Isoreticular Contraction of Cage-like Metal–Organic Frameworks with Optimized Pore Space for Enhanced C2H2/CO2 and C2H2/C2H4 Separations

L Zhang, T **ao, X Zeng, J You, Z He… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The C2H2 separation from CO2 and C2H4 is of great importance yet highly challenging in
the petrochemical industry, owing to their similar physical and chemical properties. Herein …

Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity

BH Zhao, F Chen, M Wang, C Cheng, Y Wu, C Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic semihydrogenation of acetylene provides a clean pathway to the production
of ethylene (C2H4), one of the most widely used petrochemical feedstocks. However, its …

Self-assembled iron-containing mordenite monolith for carbon dioxide sieving

Y Zhou, J Zhang, L Wang, X Cui, X Liu, SS Wong, H An… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The development of low-cost, efficient physisorbents is essential for gas adsorption and
separation; however, the intrinsic tradeoff between capacity and selectivity, as well as the …

Construction of negative electrostatic pore environments in a scalable, stable and low‐cost metal‐organic framework for one‐step ethylene purification from ternary …

HM Wen, C Yu, M Liu, C Lin, B Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One‐step separation of C2H4 from ternary C2 mixtures by physisorbents remains a
challenge to combine excellent separation performance with high stability, low cost, and …