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Porous liquids – the future is looking emptier

The development of microporosity in the liquid state is leading to an inherent change in the way we approach applications of functional porosity, potentially allowing access to new processes by exploiting the fluidity of these new materials. By engineering permanent porosity into a liquid, over the...

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Autores principales: Egleston, Benjamin D., Mroz, Austin, Jelfs, Kim E., Greenaway, Rebecca L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9093153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35655552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc00087c
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description The development of microporosity in the liquid state is leading to an inherent change in the way we approach applications of functional porosity, potentially allowing access to new processes by exploiting the fluidity of these new materials. By engineering permanent porosity into a liquid, over the transient intermolecular porosity in all liquids, it is possible to design and form a porous liquid. Since the concept was proposed in 2007, and the first examples realised in 2015, the field has seen rapid advances among the types and numbers of porous liquids developed, our understanding of the structure and properties, as well as improvements in gas uptake and molecular separations. However, despite these recent advances, the field is still young, and with only a few applications reported to date, the potential that porous liquids have to transform the field of microporous materials remains largely untapped. In this review, we will explore the theory and conception of porous liquids and cover major advances in the area, key experimental characterisation techniques and computational approaches that have been employed to understand these systems, and summarise the investigated applications of porous liquids that have been presented to date. We also outline an emerging discovery workflow with recommendations for the characterisation required at each stage to both confirm permanent porosity and fully understand the physical properties of the porous liquid.
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spelling pubmed-90931532022-06-01 Porous liquids – the future is looking emptier Egleston, Benjamin D. Mroz, Austin Jelfs, Kim E. Greenaway, Rebecca L. Chem Sci Chemistry The development of microporosity in the liquid state is leading to an inherent change in the way we approach applications of functional porosity, potentially allowing access to new processes by exploiting the fluidity of these new materials. By engineering permanent porosity into a liquid, over the transient intermolecular porosity in all liquids, it is possible to design and form a porous liquid. Since the concept was proposed in 2007, and the first examples realised in 2015, the field has seen rapid advances among the types and numbers of porous liquids developed, our understanding of the structure and properties, as well as improvements in gas uptake and molecular separations. However, despite these recent advances, the field is still young, and with only a few applications reported to date, the potential that porous liquids have to transform the field of microporous materials remains largely untapped. In this review, we will explore the theory and conception of porous liquids and cover major advances in the area, key experimental characterisation techniques and computational approaches that have been employed to understand these systems, and summarise the investigated applications of porous liquids that have been presented to date. We also outline an emerging discovery workflow with recommendations for the characterisation required at each stage to both confirm permanent porosity and fully understand the physical properties of the porous liquid. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9093153/ /pubmed/35655552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc00087c Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Porous liquids – the future is looking emptier
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title_full_unstemmed Porous liquids – the future is looking emptier
title_short Porous liquids – the future is looking emptier
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9093153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35655552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc00087c
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