Metal-organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Banerjee, Debasis ^a   Simon, Cory M ^b   Plonka, Anna M ^c   Motkuri, Radha K ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   Chen, Xianyin ^c   Smit, Berend ^b,d   Parise, John B ^c,e   Haranczyk, Maciej ^f,g   Thallapally, Praveen K ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g IMDEA MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; NUCLEAR FUEL; XENON;

ADSORPTION; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; FOSSIL FUEL; NUCLEAR POWER; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; XENON;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISTILLATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84974696682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11831     Document Type: Article

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