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- Title
Hydrogen bond unlocking-driven pore structure control for shifting multi-component gas separation function.
- Authors
Yang, Rong; Wang, Yu; Cao, Jian-Wei; Ye, Zi-Ming; Pham, Tony; Forrest, Katherine A.; Krishna, Rajamani; Chen, Hongwei; Li, Libo; Ling, Bo-Kai; Zhang, Tao; Gao, Tong; Jiang, Xue; Xu, Xiang-Ou; Ye, Qian-Hao; Chen, Kai-Jie
- Abstract
Purification of ethylene (C2H4) as the most extensive and output chemical, from complex multi-components is of great significance but highly challenging. Herein we demonstrate that precise pore structure tuning by controlling the network hydrogen bonds in two highly-related porous coordination networks can shift the efficient C2H4 separation function from C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 ternary mixture to CO2/C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 quaternary mixture system. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that the different amino groups on the triazolate ligands resulted in the change of the hydrogen bonding in the host network, which led to changes in the pore shape and pore chemistry. Gas adsorption isotherms, adsorption kinetics and gas-loaded crystal structure analysis indicated that the coordination network Zn-fa-atz (2) weakened the affinity for three C2 hydrocarbons synchronously including C2H4 but enhanced the CO2 adsorption due to the optimized CO2-host interaction and the faster CO2 diffusion, leading to effective C2H4 production from the CO2/C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 mixture in one step based on the experimental and simulated breakthrough data. Moreover, it can be shaped into spherical pellets with maintained porosity and separation performance. C2H4 is one of the most important chemical raw materials. Here, the authors report that tuning of pore structure shifts the multi-component gas separation function, enabling one-step production of high-purity C2H4 in the quaternary mixture.
- Subjects
POROSITY; SEPARATION of gases; HYDROGEN bonding; GAS absorption &; adsorption; ADSORPTION kinetics; COORDINATION polymers; GAS mixtures
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-45081-w