title: Porous Organic Cage Thin Films and Molecular-Sieving Membranes.
abstract: Porous organic cage molecules are fabricated into thin films and molecular-sieving membranes. Cage molecules are solution cast on various substrates to form amorphous thin films, with the structures tuned by tailoring the cage chemistry and processing conditions. For the first time, uniform and pinhole-free microporous cage thin films are formed and demonstrated as molecular-sieving membranes for selective gas separation.
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.|Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
authors.forename: Qilei
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasell
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.
authors.forename: Shijing
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK.
authors.forename: Anthony K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Cheetham
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.|Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Easan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sivaniah
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Cooper
keywords: molecular crystals; porous organic cages; separation membranes; solution-processing; thin films