Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents an overview of the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials for carbon capture, focusing on the correlation between MOF structure and CO₂ uptake and tabulating the best-performing MOFs and discusses pure MOF membranes and MOF-containing mixed-matrix-membranes. It reviews the different approaches to make porous carbons, from the perspectives of templates and precursors, and their performances for carbon capture as adsorbents. The book also reviews porous aromatic frameworks for carbon capture and strategies for their further improvement; the computational methods, candidate materials, and criteria for virtual screening of materials as membranes and sorbents for carbon capture. It summarizes the advances in using computational modeling to guide the development of ultrathin membranes based on 2D materials such as graphene for gas separations.