Issue 21, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Realizing both selective adsorption and efficient regeneration using adsorbents with photo-regulated molecular gates†

Jing Zhu,a   Jia-Jia Ding,a   Xiao-Qin Liu,*a   Peng Tana  and  Lin-Bing Sun*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
E-mail: liuxq@njtech.edu.cn, lbsun@njtech.edu.cn
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Abstract

A new generation of smart adsorbents was designed by grafting photo-responsive molecules onto the pore entrances of mesoporous silica. These molecules act as the gates of the mesopores, which are reversibly closed/opened upon light irradiation. Our smart adsorbents thus realize both selective adsorption and efficient desorption, which is highly expected for adsorption but impossible for traditional adsorbents with fixed pore entrances.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC10634F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Dec 2015
Accepted
03 Feb 2016
First published
11 Feb 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 4006-4009

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Realizing both selective adsorption and efficient regeneration using adsorbents with photo-regulated molecular gates

J. Zhu, J. Ding, X. Liu, P. Tan and L. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 4006 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10634F

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