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Faster, cheaper gas and liquid separation using custom designed and built mesoscopic structures
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/ific-fcg062212.php[font face=Serif]Public release date: 24-Jun-2012
Contact: David Kornhauser
pr@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
81-757-539-755
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
[font size=5]Faster, cheaper gas and liquid separation using custom designed and built mesoscopic structures[/font]
[font size=4]Building larger porous coordination polymer architectures[/font]
[font size=3]Kyoto, Japan -- In what may prove to be a significant boon for industry, separating mixtures of liquids or gasses has just become considerably easier.
Using a new process they describe as "reverse fossilization," scientists at Kyoto University's WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have succeeded in creating custom designed porous substances capable of low cost, high efficiency separation.
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"Water/ethanol separation has not been commonly possible using existing porous materials," elaborates Dr. Julien Reboul. "The PCP-based structures we created, however, combine the intrinsic nano-level adsorptive properties of the PCPs themselves with the meso- and macroscopic properties of the template aerogels, greatly increasing separation efficiency and capacity."
Lab head and iCeMS Deputy Director Prof. Susumu Kitagawa sees the team's achievement as a significant advance. "To date, PCPs have been shown on their own to possess highly useful properties including storage, catalysis, and sensing, but the very utility of the size of their nanoscale pores has limited their applicability to high throughput industrial processes. Using reverse fossilization to create architectures including larger, mesoscale pores now allows us to begin considering the design of such applications."
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat3359Contact: David Kornhauser
pr@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
81-757-539-755
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
[font size=5]Faster, cheaper gas and liquid separation using custom designed and built mesoscopic structures[/font]
[font size=4]Building larger porous coordination polymer architectures[/font]
[font size=3]Kyoto, Japan -- In what may prove to be a significant boon for industry, separating mixtures of liquids or gasses has just become considerably easier.
Using a new process they describe as "reverse fossilization," scientists at Kyoto University's WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have succeeded in creating custom designed porous substances capable of low cost, high efficiency separation.
…
"Water/ethanol separation has not been commonly possible using existing porous materials," elaborates Dr. Julien Reboul. "The PCP-based structures we created, however, combine the intrinsic nano-level adsorptive properties of the PCPs themselves with the meso- and macroscopic properties of the template aerogels, greatly increasing separation efficiency and capacity."
Lab head and iCeMS Deputy Director Prof. Susumu Kitagawa sees the team's achievement as a significant advance. "To date, PCPs have been shown on their own to possess highly useful properties including storage, catalysis, and sensing, but the very utility of the size of their nanoscale pores has limited their applicability to high throughput industrial processes. Using reverse fossilization to create architectures including larger, mesoscale pores now allows us to begin considering the design of such applications."
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