The production of paraffins and olefins is one of the most far-reaching industrial processes performed today, with global ethylene production exceeding 150 million tons per year. Production is primarily performed by cracking naphtha to produce light olefins, hydrogen by-product, and residual paraffins, resulting in a complex mixture that must be purified. Purities of at least 95% are needed for commodity chemical applications and 99.5% for polyolefin production. Cryogenic distillation is the current state of the art to achieve such high purities, but it is a highly energyintensive process because temperatures as low as -160 ºC are required. The energy requirements of this process are so high that paraffin/olefin separation alone accounts for 0.3% of global energy consumption. One promising alternative to thermally-driven separations are adsorption-based separations, which are much less energy-intensive because they do not rely on a thermally-driven phase change. Many porous materials have been investigated as adsorbents for paraffin/olefin separation such as zeolites, carbonaceous materials, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with MOFs showing great promise in particular.