Chemists Develop New Material for the Separation of Carbon Dioxide From Industrial Waste Gases
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Chemists develop new material for the separation of carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases:
Chemists at the University of Bayreuth have developed a material that could well make an important contribution to climate protection and sustainable industrial production. With this material, the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO) can be specifically separated from industrial waste gases, natural gas, or biogas, and thereby made available for recycling. The separation process is both energy efficient and cost-effective. In the journal Cell Reports Physical Science the researchers present the structure and function of the material.
[...] "Our research team has succeeded in designing a material that fulfils two tasks at the same time. On the one hand, the physical interactions with CO are strong enough to free and retain this greenhouse gas from a gas mixture. On the other hand, however, they are weak enough to allow the release of CO from the material with only a small amount of energy," says Martin Rie M.Sc., first author of the new publication and doctoral researcher at the Inorganic Chemistry I research group at the University of Bayreuth.
Journal Reference::
Martin Rie, Renee Siegel, Jurgen Senker, Josef Breu. Diammonium-Pillared MOPS with Dynamic CO2 Selectivity, (CC BY 4.0) Cell Reports Physical Science (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100210
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