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Better standards are needed for membrane materials

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Tae Hoon Lee and Zachary P. Smith argue that some of the most exciting materials that could be used for gas separations are metastable or crystalline, with properties that are altered by sample preparation and testing, but there are no widely accepted standards.

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Fig. 1: Structure and properties of PIM-1 film.
Fig. 2: Structure and properties of ZIF-8 membrane.

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Lee, T.H., Smith, Z.P. Better standards are needed for membrane materials. Nat. Mater. 23, 11–12 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01763-2

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