{"id":204127,"date":"2025-01-20T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/stronger-smarter-and-more-selective-armor-like-mof-membrane-sets-new-standard-for-chemical-separations"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:28:02","slug":"stronger-smarter-and-more-selective-armor-like-mof-membrane-sets-new-standard-for-chemical-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/stronger-smarter-and-more-selective-armor-like-mof-membrane-sets-new-standard-for-chemical-separations","title":{"rendered":"Stronger, Smarter, and More Selective: Armor-Like MOF Membrane Sets New Standard for Chemical Separations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stronger-smarter-and-more-selective-armor-like-mof-membrane-sets-new-standard-for-chemical-separations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers developed a durable, bioinspired ZIF-67 MOF membrane that efficiently separates propylene from propane, offering high performance, long-term stability, and industrial scalability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polymer-grade propylene (99.5%) is a vital raw material in the chemical industry. Its production inevitably generates propane as a byproduct in the product stream. A critical step in producing polymer-grade propylene is the separation of propylene from propane\u2014a challenging and energy-intensive process due to the molecules\u2019 nearly identical physical and chemical properties.<\/p>\n<p>Molecular sieve membranes offer an energy-efficient and effective solution for this separation. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers developed a durable, bioinspired ZIF-67 MOF membrane that efficiently separates propylene from propane, offering high performance, long-term stability, and industrial scalability. Polymer-grade propylene (99.5%) is a vital raw material in the chemical industry. Its production inevitably generates propane as a byproduct in the product stream. A critical step in producing polymer-grade propylene is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}