Achieving efficient adsorption and separation of C2H2/CO2 mixtures is a goal that people have always pursued to improve the situation of high energy consumption brought by traditional separation technologies in industry today. High-nuclearity metal cluster-based MOFs with different functionalities are promising for this separation, but it is a complicated and difficult task to precisely control their structures. The strategy of pore-space partition (PSP) is a powerful way to construct this type MOFs, which has the characteristic of isostructural relationship, and can be resulted in a similar performance for them. Therefore, it is an interesting work to explore the effect of MOFs property by adjusting the size of PSP dividers. Herein, three tetranuclear Cu(Ⅱ) cluster-based MOFs (FJU-112/113/114) with dual functionalities has been successfully obtained by PSP strategy with various lengths of divider units. With the highest microporosity and unique functional site, FJU-114 realized a good improvement in the adsorption and separation performance of C2H2/CO2. The gas adsorption and lab-scale C2H2/CO2 breakthrough experiments demonstrated that FJU-114 exhibits the highest adsorption uptake of 77 cm3/g for C2H2, and shows the best separation factor of 4.2 among three MOFs. The GCMC simulation reveals that a stronger adsorption binding site of C2H2 in FJU-114a located in the cage Ⅱ near the unchanged tetranuclear copper node, combined with its high microporosity to achieve the effect of dual functionalities for the improvement performance of C2H2 adsorption and separation.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |