POROUS MATERIAL STORES ACETYLENE

A hybrid copper-organic microporous material, designed and synthesized by scientists in Japan, stores acetylene in preference to its close molecular cousin carbon dioxide at room temperature and pressure. Acetylene, a key starting material for the synthesis of many chemical products and electric mat...

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Published inChemical & Engineering News Vol. 83; no. 29; p. 7
Main Author Freemantle, Michael
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington American Chemical Society 18.07.2005
Subjects
Adsorption
Hydrocarbons
Materials science
Porous materials
Storage
Japan
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Summary:A hybrid copper-organic microporous material, designed and synthesized by scientists in Japan, stores acetylene in preference to its close molecular cousin carbon dioxide at room temperature and pressure. Acetylene, a key starting material for the synthesis of many chemical products and electric materials in the petrochemical and electronics industries, is highly reactive and explodes even in the absence of oxygen when compressed at more than 2 atm at room temperature, note Kyoto University professor of inorganic chemistry Susumu Kitagawa, postdoc Ryotaro Matsuda, and coworkers. Their material permits acetylene to be stored safely at a density 200 times the safe compression limit of free acetylene at room temperature, Kitagawa says.
ISSN:0009-2347
1520-605X
DOI:10.1021/cen-v083n029.p007