Barely porous organic cages for hydrogen isotope separation

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 366; no. 6465; pp. 613 - 620
• Main Authors: Liu, Ming, Zhang, Linda, Little, Marc A., Kapil, Venkat, Ceriotti, Michele, Yang, Siyuan, Ding, Lifeng, Holden, Daniel L., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, Rafael, He, Donglin, Clowes, Rob, Chong, Samantha Y., Schütz, Gisela, Chen, Linjiang, Hirscher, Michael, Cooper, Andrew I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 01.11.2019; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Adsorption; Apertures; Cage molecules; Cages; Cavities; Deuterium; Hydrogen; Hydrogen isotopes; Isotope separation; Isotopes; Kinetics; Nuclear fusion; Pore size; Porosity; Selectivity; Sieves; Ultrafines

The separation of hydrogen isotopes for applications such as nuclear fusion is a major challenge. Current technologies are energy intensive and inefficient. Nanoporous materials have the potential to separate hydrogen isotopes by kinetic quantum sieving, but high separation selectivity tends to corr...