Metal

Methane

Catalysis

Adsorption

Engineering

Polymer chemistry

Metallurgy

Materials science

Inorganic chemistry

Chemical engineering

Nitrogen

Porosity

Physics

Organic chemistry

Optics

Phosphonium

Metal-organic framework

Porous medium

Composite material

Ionic bonding

Dispersion (optics)

Chemistry

Ionic liquid

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Porous liquids can be prepared from the dispersion metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in ionic liquids (ILs). Porous liquids prepared from 5 % of ZIF-8 in a phosphonium-based ionic liquid are capable of absorbing reversibly up to 150 % more nitrogen and 100 % more methane than the pure ionic liquid.

Porous Ionic Liquids or Liquid Metal–Organic Frameworks?