«And the diagnostic clue is that all of the isotope ratios for neon, argon,
krypton, xenon, nitrogen, what have you, look as if they have suffered an escape process in which the lightest isotope escaped preferentially relative to the heavier ones» — a process
called fractionation.
Thallapally, working with Maciej Haranczyk and Berend Smit of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and others, has been studying materials
called metal - organic frameworks, also known as MOFs, that could potentially trap xenon and
krypton without having to use cryogenics.