Evanston / Wilsonville / La Jolla / Cambridge / Skokie / /
Company
NuMat Technologies / Macmillan Publishers Limited. / Ford Motor Company / Furukawa / Yaghi / Mosaic Materials / BASF / /
Country
Germany / United Kingdom / /
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USD / /
Event
Environmental Issue / Business Partnership / /
Facility
stable MOFs / Northwestern University / Hong Kong University of Science / University of Tokyo / US National Carbon Capture Center / University of California / Scripps Research Institute / /
IndustryTerm
active site / transportation / shale gas / chemical giant / exposed metal ions / metal nodes / pharmaceutical / oil / metal atoms / metal ions / methane-storage systems / metal / debut in commercial applications / chemical reactions / potential applications / pharmaceuticals / crude oil / chemical properties / chemical groups / exposed metal cations / incumbent technologies / chemical industry / gas storage / chemical and physical properties / metal-containing nodes / energy-intensive processes / chemical plant / flue gas / natural marine product / Conventional carbon-capture systems / niche gas-storage applications / solvent systems / steel / /
NaturalFeature
river Rhine / /
Organization
US Department of Energy / Northwestern University / University of Tokyo / Japan Science and Technology Agency / University of California / Berkeley / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology1 / Hong Kong University of Science / US National Carbon Capture Center / Scripps Research Institute / /
Person
Ulrich Müller / Omar Yaghi / Phil Baran / MARK PEPLOW / Makoto Fujita / Omar Farha / Joseph Hupp / Jeffrey Long / CRYSTAL SPONGES / /
THE HOLE STORY Swiss-cheese-like materials called metal–organic frameworks have long promised to improve gas storage, separation and catalysis. Now they are coming of age.