Prof. Huang Qing's group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) developed a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) gas sensor to detect aldehyde with high sensitivity and selectivity, which provided a new ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 3, 2021
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The Paris Agreement of 2015 set a goal of reducing CO2 emissions, a greenhouse gas that has caused global warming to levels of less than 2°C more than before the Industrial Revolution. In order to achieve this goal, it is ...
Materials Science
Aug 7, 2020
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Researchers have developed a technology to analyze the adsorption behavior of molecules in each individual pore of a metal organic framework (MOF). This system has large specific surface areas, allowing for the real-time ...
Materials Science
Jun 19, 2019
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Gases and pollutants can be filtered from air and liquids by means of porous, crystalline materials, such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). To further partition these pores and enhance their sorption capacity, a team ...
Materials Science
Apr 29, 2019
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Extremes of temperature, rain, exposure to corrosive substances—all of these environmental factors contribute to the degradation of concrete. Specifically, a gas present in our environment, called hydrogen sulphide, turns ...
Engineering
Dec 19, 2018
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(Phys.org)—Researchers from the University of Sheffield report a new continuous-breathing metal-organic framework (MOF), SHF-61, that has two different solvent-specific forms, a narrow-pore structure that is the result ...
Polymer chemists at A*STAR have synthesized materials with intrinsic, microscale porosity that are well suited for reusable gas and liquid separations because of their robust, ladder-like frameworks.
Polymers
Feb 24, 2016
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An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a renowned chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed "gas adsorption crystallography" that ...
Materials Science
Nov 9, 2015
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Emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels like coal, petroleum and natural gas tend to collect within Earth's atmosphere as "greenhouse gases" that are blamed for escalating global warming.
Materials Science
Sep 22, 2015
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The ability to 'thread' a molecular ligand through a metal–organic framework (MOF) to alter the pore size of the material—and yet allow the MOF to retain its crystallinity and principal structural features—has been ...
Materials Science
Dec 3, 2014
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