25 June, 2014
FMD3 researchers published their groundbreaking results for CO2 capture from air in Nature Communications.
Congratulations
to Osama, Youssef, Chen, Vincent, Karim and Prof. Eddaoudi.
Direct air capture is regarded as a plausible alternate approach that, if economically practical, can mitigate the increasing carbon dioxide emissions associated with two of the main carbon polluting sources, namely stationary power plants and transportation. Here the FMD3 scientists demonstrate that metal-organic framework crystal chemistry permits the construction of an isostructural metal-organic framework (SIFSIX -3-Cu) based on pyrazine/copper(II) two-dimensional periodic 44 square grids pillared by silicon hexafluoride anions and thus allows further contraction of the pore system to 3.5 versus 3.84 Å for the parent zinc(II) derivative. This enhances the adsorption energetics and subsequently displays carbon dioxide uptake and selectivity at very low partial pressures relevant to air capture and trace carbon dioxide removal. The resultant SIFSIX -3-Cu exhibits uniformly distributed adsorption energetics and offers enhanced carbon dioxide physical adsorption properties, uptake and selectivity in highly diluted gas streams, a performance unachievable with other classes of porous materials.
http://fmd3.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/NatCommunSIFSIXaircapture.aspx