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Cover Picture: para ‐Xylene Ultra‐selective Zeolite MFI Membranes Fabricated from Nanosheet Monolayers at the Air–Water Interface (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2/2018)
Author(s) -
Kim Donghun,
Jeon Mi Young,
Stottrup Benjamin L.,
Tsapatsis Michael
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201712505
Subject(s) - nanosheet , monolayer , materials science , membrane , chemical engineering , coating , nanotechnology , chemistry , biochemistry , engineering
Ultraselective MFI membranes can be fabricated from nanosheet monolayers. M. Tsapatsis et al. describe in their Communication on page 480 ff. how a uniform and dense MFI nanosheet monolayer at an air–water interface can be successfully transferred onto a porous support by a new monolayer deposition method. Intergrowth of the dense nanosheet seed coating yields a thin, oriented, and low‐defect‐density membrane, which exhibits high selectivity for the separation of xylene isomers.