Porous liquid metal-organic frameworks with selectively high gas solubility

Jie Ma, Libo He, Ruilu Yang, Dechao Wang, Danyao Qu, Chen Su, Haili Pang, Weiwei Wu, Peipei Li, Lu Zhang, Xiaowei Liu

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Abstract

Porous liquid metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently been discovered rather promising for gas absorption and separation in practical chemical industry processes. In this work, we successfully fabricated a kind of MOF-based porous liquid (i.e., UIO-66-PL) by dispersing the hydrophilic porous filler of UIO-66-NH2 nanoparticles into a specific hydrophilic ionic liquid (IL, [HEMIM][DCA]) through the wet-impregnation method. The obtained UIO-66-PL was a kind of stable porous liquid with well-maintained permanent porosity and liquid-like behavior at room temperature. More importantly, this UIO-66-PL has larger gas absorption capacities than its reference IL hindered solvent as the well-preserved permanent porosity could act as free void space for gas accommodation. Also, IL could serve as a selective gate for target gas to the permanent porosity within UIO-66-PL, i.e., the majority of the permanent porosity in UIO-66-PL is inaccessible to nitrogen, but available for carbon dioxide, demonstrating that this UIO-66-PL could function as a type of fluid selective gas sorbent with high target gas solubility.

Original languageEnglish
Article number128051
JournalFuel
Volume344
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Hydrophilicity
  • Ionic liquid
  • Permanent porosity
  • Porous liquid
  • Selective gas solubility

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Fuel Technology
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Organic Chemistry

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