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Screening for selectivity

Metal–organic frameworks are promising adsorbents for CO2 capture from flue gas, but many perform poorly when exposed to flue gas containing water. Now, a computational screening approach identifies MOFs with preserved CO2/N2 selectivities in wet flue gas and experiments confirm their outstanding CO2 capture performance.

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Keskin, S. Screening for selectivity. Nat Energy 5, 8–9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0514-z

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