Owing to their molecular building blocks, yet highly crystalline nature, metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) sit at the interface between molecule and material. Their diverse …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as an important and unique class of
functional crystalline hybrid porous materials in the past two decades. Due to their modular …

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 …

Rod MOFs are metal–organic frameworks in which the metal-containing secondary building
units consist of infinite rods of linked metal-centered polyhedra. For such materials, we …

The widespread implementation of H2 as a fuel is currently hindered by the high pressures
or cryogenic temperatures required to achieve reasonable storage densities. In contrast, the …

The separation and purification process of hydrocarbons is one of the crucial and daunting
challenges in the petrochemistry field, which is widely depended on cryogenic distillation by …

Crystal engineering, the field of chemistry that studies the design, properties, and
applications of crystals, is exemplified by the emergence over the past thirty years of porous …

A key challenge to realizing practical electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) is the
decrease in the NRR activity before reaching the mass-transfer limit as overpotential …

Gas separation is a crucial process for the production of many highly valuable chemical
feedstocks in the petrochemical industry. Traditional separation technologies, including …

X-Ray single-crystal diffraction has been the most straightforward and important technique in
structural determination of crystalline materials for understanding their structure–property …