Professor Li Fengting and Researcher Gu Yifan's Team Publish in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: Synergistic Hydrophobic–Polar Microenvironments in Corrugated Channels Enable Exceptional Moisture-Tolerant CO₂ Capture

Recently, a collaborative research effort between the team of Professor Li Fengting at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering and the team of Professor Susumu Kitagawa — Member of the Japan Academy and recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at Kyoto University — has achieved new progress in the field of efficient CO₂ capture from high-humidity coal-combustion flue gas and green gas separation materials. By constructing synergistic "hydrophobic–polar" microenvironments, the research team realized strong selective recognition of CO₂ molecules while effectively suppressing competitive adsorption of H₂O molecules, providing a new materials design strategy to address the long-standing challenge of reconciling strong target-molecule affinity with moisture tolerance in CO₂ capture under high-humidity conditions. The relevant research results, entitled "Synergistic Hydrophobic-Polar Microenvironments in Corrugated Channels Enable Exceptional Moisture-Tolerant CO₂ Capture," were published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a globally authoritative academic journal in the field of chemistry.

Paper Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.9003794