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Facile approaches capable of constructing stable and structurally diverse porous liquids (PLs) that can deliver high-performance applications are a long-standing, captivating, and challenging research area that requires significant attention. Herein, a facile surface deposition strategy is demonstrated to afford diverse type III-PLs possessing ultra-stable dispersion, external structure modification, and enhanced performance in gas storage and transformation by leveraging the expeditious and uniform precipitation of selected metal salts. The Ag(I) species-modified zeolite nanosheets are deployed as the porous host to construct type III-PLs with ionic liquids (ILs) containing bromide anion , leading to stable dispersion driven by the formation of AgBr nanoparticles. The as-afforded type-III PLs display promising performance in CO 2 capture/conversion and ethylene/ethane separation. Property and performance of the as-produced PLs can be tuned by the cation structure of the ILs, which can be harnessed to achieve polarity reversal of the porous host via ionic exchange. The surface deposition procedure can be further extended to produce PLs from Ba(II)-functionalized zeolite and ILs containing [SO 4 ] 2- anion driven by the formation of BaSO 4 salts. The as-produced PLs are featured by well-maintained crystallinity of the porous host, good fluidity and stability, enhanced gas uptake capacity, and attractive performance in small gas molecule utilization., (© 2023 Wiley-VCH GmbH.)

The coupling of hollow carbon nanospheres with triblock copolymers is a promising strategy to fabricate mixed-matrix membranes. This is because the symmetric microporous shells combine with the hollow space to promote gas transport, and the unique soft-rigid molecular structure of triblock copolymers can accommodate a high loading of fillers without a significant loss of mechanical strength., (© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)

A new strategy is successfully applied to "old" acetyl compounds. A free-standing, porous, N-doped carbonaceous membrane is facilely prepared from the thermal treatment of a pyrrole-ring-containing polymeric membrane based on the superacid-catalyzed copolymerization of acetyl monomers. An exceptional ideal CO2 /N2 permselectivity of 43.2 is achieved with a good CO2 permeability of 1149.3 Barrer, exceeding the recent upper bound for CO2 /N2 ., (Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)