Method Enables Design of Hybrid Glasses, Revolutionizes Gas StorageA new method of manufacturing gla
Method Enables Design of Hybrid Glasses, Revolutionizes Gas StorageA new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of “designer glasses” with applications in advanced photonics, while also facilitating industrial scale carbon capture and storage. An international team of researchers, writing today in the journal Nature Communications, report how they have managed to use a relatively new family of sponge-like porous materials to develop new hybrid glasses.The work revolves around a family of compounds called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which are cage-like structures consisting of metal ions, linked by organic bonds. Their porous properties have led to proposed application in carbon capture, hydrogen storage and toxic gas separations, because of their ability to selectively adsorb and store pre-selected target molecules, much like a building a sieve that discriminates not only on size, but also chemical identity.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2015/08/method-enables-design-hybrid-glasses-revolutionizes-gas-storage -- source link
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