An international research team composed of researchers from KAIST (led by Professors Osamu Terasaki and Jeung Ku Kang at the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability) and other universities, including UC Berkeley, has recently published research results on the adsorption process of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in Nature (November 9, 2015).
MOFs are porous three-dimensional crystals with a high internal surface area, which have a wide range of applications involving adsorption such as hydrogen, methane, or carbon dioxide storage. In the paper entitled “Extra Adsorption and Adsorbate Superlattice Formation in Metal-organic Frameworks,” the research team described their observation of a very specific interpore interaction process in MOFs.
For additional information, please see:
A New Way to Look at MOFs
International study challenges prevailing view on how metal organic frameworks store gases
EurekAlert, November 9, 2015
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/dbnl-anw110915.php
(Courtesy of the US Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory news release)
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