Highly effective hydrogen isotope separation in nanoporous metal-organic frameworks with open metal sites: Direct measurement and theoretical analysis

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 761-770

  Oh, Hyunchul ^a   Savchenko, Ievgeniia ^b   Mavrandonakis, Andreas ^b   Heine, Thomas ^b   Hirscher, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

gas adsorption; hydrogen isotopes; isotope separation; metal organic frameworks; nanoporous materials; quantum sieving

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPE SEPARATION; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; NANO-POROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM SIEVING;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CRYOGENICS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEUTERIUM; DISTILLATION; GAS ADSORPTION; METALS; MIXTURES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL DESORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 84893459204     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405420t     Document Type: Article

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