«Don't call them stiff: Metal
organic frameworks show unexpected flexibility.»
Not exact matches
The structure of neon captured within the
framework known as NiMOF - 74, a porous
framework built from nickel metal centres and
organic linkers,
shows clear nickel to neon interactions forming at low temperatures significantly shorter than would be expected from a typical weak contact.
The findings, published in the journal Science,
show that materials called metal -
organic frameworks (MOFs) can effectively remove the contaminant acetylene from ethylene, the material from which much of the world's plastic is made.
Specifically, a metal -
organic framework compound, copper [1,3 - benzenedicarboxylate] with a unique arrangement of copper atoms in a crystal, has been
shown to exhibit this novel behavior.
Novel metal
organic frameworks have
shown significant potential as CO2 sorbents.»
Instead, membrane separation and metal -
organic framework capture technologies, which are
showing promise in the lab, could meet the performance criteria for a scalable CCS solution.