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An efficient nanosieve

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A rigid and easily scalable metal–organic framework is shown to be among the most efficient materials for separating ethylene from ethane.

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Fig. 1: Schematic representation of the separation of ethane/ethylene mixtures.

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    Anastasiya Bavykina & Jorge Gascon

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Bavykina, A., Gascon, J. An efficient nanosieve. Nature Mater 17, 1057–1058 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0223-1

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