Credit: Image courtesy of Koros et al., Nat. Mater. 16, 289 (2017) and John Toon, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) with rigid ultra small micropores (pores with diameter less than 7Å—less than one-millionth the diameter of a human hair) and tailorable size and shape selectivity can enable the membrane-based separation of gas and liquid organic molecules.