Entropic separation of styrene/ethylbenzene mixtures by exploitation of subtle differences in molecular configurations in ordered crystalline nanoporous adsorbents

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3771-3778

  Torres Knoop, Ariana ^a   Heinen, Jurn ^a   Krishna, Rajamani ^a   Dubbeldam, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISTILLATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MIXTURES; NANOPORES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; STYRENE;

METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; MOLECULAR CONFIGURATIONS; NANO-POROUS MATERIALS; NANOPOROUS ADSORBENTS; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; SATURATION CAPACITIES; SATURATION CONDITIONS; SELECTIVE ADSORPTION;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84961288234     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00363     Document Type: Article

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