Rui Li

Volcano-Type Pore-Size Dependence of HMF Adsorption in Aluminum-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Transport–Affinity Tradeoff for Sugar Purification

Furfural derivatives like 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are potent fermentation inhibitors whose selective removal remains a bottleneck in biorefining due to limited pore-level mechanistic understanding. Here, we deploy five metal-organic frameworks with graded pore apertures to...