Three new Cu(i) based metal halides with excellent optical properties were developed by rational structural design, and a high-performance WLED was fabricated with the resulting material.
Low-concentration ethane capture is crucial for environmental protection and natural gas purification. The ideal physisorbent with strong C 2 H 6 interaction and large C 2 H 6 uptake at low-concentration level has rarely been reported, due to the large pK a value and small quadrupole moment of C 2 H 6 . Herein, we demonstrate the perfectly size matching between the ultramicropore (pore size of 4.6 Å) and ethane (kinetic diameter of 4.4 Å) in a nickel pyridine-4carboxylate metal-organic framework (IISERP-MOF2), which enables the record-breaking performance for low concentration C 2 H 6 capture. IISERP-MOF2 exhibits the large C 2 H 6 adsorption enthalpy of 56.7 kJ/mol, and record-high C 2 H 6 uptake at low pressure of 0.01-0.1 bar and 298 K (1.8 mmol/g at 0.01 bar). Molecule simulations and C 2 H 6loading crystal structure analysis revealed that the maximized interaction sites in IISERP-MOF2 with ethane molecule originates the strong C 2 H 6 adsorption. The dynamic breakthrough experiments for gas mixtures of C 2 H 6 /N 2 (1/999, v/v) and C 2 H 6 /CH 4 (5/95, v/v) proved the excellent low-concentration C 2 H 6 capture performance.Ethane (C 2 H 6 ) has been proved harmful to the atmosphere and human health, as suggested by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (threshold limit of 1000 ppm). [1] The total global ethane emissions to the air are estimated at 10-13 teragrams (1 Tg = 10 12 g) per year. [2] The main source of ethane in the air comes from the inevitable release from production, processing, transmission, and use of natural gas (mainly CH 4 , 5-10 % for C 2 H 6 ). [1,3] Low concentration C 2 H 6 capture from air and natural gas is vital for controlling the C 2 H 6 level, however rarely investigated. Compared to traditional distillation technology with large energy input, physisorption based separation process could be a better alternative to address this issue owing to its fast sorption kinetics and low regeneration energy.Relatively chemical inertness of ethane (small quadrupole moment and large pK a : 0.65 × 10 À 26 esu cm 2 and 50) make it only strongly adsorbed in porous material by effective superposition of weak Van der Waals and hydrogen bonding interaction, in which pore size is a very important factor. [4] The exquisite pore structure control (pore size and pore chemistry) endows the new type of porous material (metal-organic framework/MOF, [5] also noted as metal-organic material/MOM [6] or porous coordination polymer/PCP) [7] with the significant power to manipulate these weak interaction sites inside to enhance C 2 H 6 adsorption. [8] For MOF structure with much larger pore size (c. a. > 7 Å, Figure 1a) than kinetic diameter of ethane molecule [a
The design of microwave absorbent with hierarchical interfacial structure has become one of the effective methods to scatter microwaves. Metal/carbon composites deriving from metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted considerable attention...
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