The control of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere has become a worldwide issue over the last few years as a direct correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change is now commonly accepted. The most dominant source of CO2 has been inarguably pinpointed to be due to ever-growing industry activities in the last century, particularly from the use of fossil fuels. For instance, one important source of carbon dioxide emissions comes from coal-fired power stations. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology is one of the solutions considered on a short-term schedule. Numerous technologies have been probed for CCS over the last decades, for example, amine scrubbing, membrane diffusion, and cryogenic distillation.

Adsorption based processes are playing an ever-increasing role in this process as novel adsorbents like Metal Organic Framework (MOF) or hybrid adsorbents combining the advantages of both absorption and adsorption are developed to release a new generation of materials able to mitigate CO2 emissions at a larger scale.