A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide From the Air
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2. Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion…
Metal-organic Frameworks
Cooling Homes Without Warming the Planet – New Technology for More Efficient AC
The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air…
MIT Uses Neutrons in Drive to Improve Energy Storage in Supercapacitors
Batteries contain chemicals that store and release electrical energy at relatively slow rates compared to capacitors, which are often used in applications requiring power to…
Specially Designed Metal-Organic Framework for Safer, Cheaper Natural Gas Storage
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is one of the most abundant organic compounds on Earth. Like other fossil fuels, it can be captured,…
Separating Gases Using Flexible Molecular Sieves Made From Metal-Organic Frameworks
Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have made reported some exciting findings relating to metal-organic frameworks…
New Technique to Capture CO2 More Efficiently Could Reduce Power Plant Greenhouse Gases
Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove 90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply. big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural…
New Record for Carbon Dioxide Capture Set Using Metal Organic Frameworks
Researchers from Monash University and the CSIRO have set a record for carbon dioxide capture using Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). The technology resembles a sponge…
New Double-Helical MOF Is Potential Next-Gen Semiconductor
Clemson professor’s research on electrically conducting metal organic frameworks featured on cover of American Chemical Society journal. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are emerging multi-functional materials that…
New Material Can Better Capture Carbon Dioxide From Factory/Powerplant Exhaust
Generally speaking, “flue gas” refers to any gas coming out of a pipe, exhaust, chimney etc as a product of combustion in a fireplace, oven,…
Cleaner Industrial Emissions by Scrubbing CO2 From Smokestacks
An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could…
New Material Captures Toxic Air Pollutant and Converts Into Useful Chemical
Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use. An international team of scientists, led…
Scientists Develop New Material That Cleans and Splits Water
Researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering have developed a photocatalytic system based on a material in the class of metal-organic frameworks. The…
Bioengineers Use Infrared Imaging to Optimize the Structure of MOFs
Bioengineers at the University of Illinois have taken a new look at an old tool to help characterize a class of materials called metal organic…
Computer Model Helps Remove Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants
A team of scientists have developed a computer model that can identify the best molecular candidates for removing greenhouse gases from power plants, providing accurate…
Sandia Chemists Use MOFs to Remove Radioactive Gas from Nuclear Fuel
A research team, comprised of Sandia chemists, is researching ways to make nuclear fuel reprocessing cleaner and to reduce the volume of high-level wastes. By…