Hydrocarbon separation is one of the most critically important and complex industrial
separation processes, offering versatile bulk chemicals and vital support to the national …

This Minireview focuses on the developments of the adsorptive separation of
methane/nitrogen, ethene/ethane, propene/propane mixtures as well as on the separation of …

The separation and purification of xylene isomers is an industrially important but challenging
process. Developing highly efficient adsorbents is crucial for the implementation of …

The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Conspectus Porous materials with high surface areas have drawn more and more attention
in recent years because of their wide applications in physical adsorption and energy …

In the process industries, the separation of mixtures of hydrocarbons is important both for the
preparation of feedstocks and for use as end products. The constituents, hydrocarbons, are …

Petrochemical-related gases, especially light hydrocarbons with 1–8 carbon atoms, are
essential industrial feedstocks. However, during steam cracking they inevitably coexist with …

Over the last at least three decades, the science of porous solid materials has become one
of the most intense areas of study for chemists, physicists, and materials scientists. These …

New materials capable of separating mixtures of saturated, unsaturated, and aromatic
hydrocarbons can enable more efficient industrial processes and cleaner energy …

Microporous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) hold great potential for small molecule
separation but are yet challenging to design and synthesize. Here we report a framework …