New material has potential to cut costs and make nuclear fuel recycling cleaner
Unexpectedly, the pores squeezed in on themselves. "When we heated the crystal that high, atoms within the pore tilted and ... These materials have tiny pores inside, so small that often only a single molecule can fit inside each pore. When one gas ... The teams models identified the MOF that trapped xenon most selectively and had a pore size close to the size of a xenon atom- ... The darker blue surface illustrates where a Xe atom sits in the pores of SBMOF-1 when it adsorbs. Credit: Berend Smit/EPFL/ ...
Study challenges prevailing view on how metal organic frameworks store gases
Light blue molecules are adsorbed onto the internal pore surface; yellow molecules are adsorbed in the center of the pores. ... gas adsorbates interact with each other within a pore (blue arrows) (C) gas molecules interact with each other across pore ... Flexible metal-organic frameworks with range of pore sizes made by threading through molecular ligands. Dec 3, 2014 ... The variations on this basic structure are virtually limitless and can be customized so that a MOFs pores adsorb specific gas ...
Core news and latest updates
These pollen have three or more pores set in furrows called colpi. In contrast, most of the other seed plants (that is the ... gymnosperms, the monocots and the paleodicots) produce monosulcate pollen, with a single pore set in a differently oriented ...
Distant quakes trigger tremors at US waste-injection sites, says study
"Were now seeing earthquakes in places where humans are raising pore pressure." The new study may be the first to find evidence ...
Scientists find a better way to capture carbon from industrial emissions
And the MOF has pores with a size comparable to that of CO2 molecules, meaning theres a confined space for incarcerating the ... the structure has nanosized pores that adsorb gases, similar to a sponge. MOFs can be designed with a variety of components, ...
Heat capacity news and latest updates
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of materials that contain nano-sized pores. These pores give MOFs record-breaking ...
Why hasn't LA seen a big San Andreas quake recently? Researchers find a clue
Increasing pore pressure is similar to turning on an air hockey table, Hill said. Low pore pressure would be like trying to ... Higher pore pressure would be like when the table is on, meaning its much easier for the puck to move when given the same ... "So if you have a rock and you fully saturate it with water, the pore pressure in it will increase due to the fluid inside it," ... Such activities increase something called pore pressure-essentially, increasing the fluids between the grains of a rock. " ...
Microsponges from seaweed may save lives (w/ Video)
The size of the pores and channels in agarose can be tuned down to the nanoscale. The challenge, McDevitt said, was defining a ... McDevitt and his colleagues tested beads with pores up to 620 nanometers and down to 45 nanometers wide. (A sheet of paper is ... The solution developed at Rice is a network of microsponges with tailored pore sizes and nano-nets of agarose fibers. The ... about 100,000 nanometers thick.) Pores near 140 nanometers proved best at letting proteins infuse the beads internal nano-nets ...
How HIV DNA is blocked from entering the cell nucleus
Multiple components of the nuclear pore complex and nuclear import machinery enable a protein called human myxovirus resistance ... In the new study, Malim and colleagues show that MX2 interacts with multiple protein components of the nuclear pore complex, as ... 2018) Multiple components of the nuclear pore complex interact with the amino-terminus of MX2 to facilitate HIV-1 restriction. ... Multiple components of the nuclear pore complex and nuclear import machinery enable a protein called human myxovirus resistance ...
HD microscopy in milliseconds
"However, some structures are so small that they cannot be found with conventional microscopes, for example specific pores in ...
Researchers print live cells with a standard inkjet printer
Creating temporary pores allow researchers to put molecules inside of cells that wouldnt otherwise fit, and study how the ...
Simulations to make insight into electrokinetic transport more reliable
In electrokinetics, ions play an important role in the transport of a liquid through narrow pores or of solid particles through ... In electrokinetics, ions play an important role in the transport of a liquid through narrow pores or of solid particles through ...
Protein serves as a breaking point for cell membrane rupture during cell death
At the final stage of this process, the cells protective membrane is compromised by tiny pores which allow ions to stream into ...
Cotton-based hybrid biofuel cell could power implantable medical devices
"Cotton has many pores that can support activity in electrochemical devices," explained Yongmin Ko, a visiting faculty member ...
Membrane nanopore transport gets picky
Inner pores of carbon nanotubes combine extremely fast water transport and ion selectivity that could potentially be useful for ... "These results provide additional insights on the mechanism of ion selectivity in these pores and also point to the factors that ... "The observation of this strong differential selectivity is based on a mechanism that is unique to the nanometer-scale pores and ... Determining which anions are permeable to the nanotube pore can be critical to many separation processes, including ...
Separating molecules requires a lot of energy. This nanoporous, heat-resistant membrane could change that
The images of the right side show the membrane without pores (dense OHF) and the membrane after carbon has been removed to ...
Engineers collaborate on inexpensive DNA sequencing method
As they pass, the pore produces a unique ionic current blockade signature due to the tags distinct chemical structure, thereby ...
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Nanosponges that soak up a dangerous pore-forming toxin produced by MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) could ...
Electron density news and latest updates
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), possessing ordered pores and high-precision functionalization, are regarded as an ideal ...
Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin discovered
"We suspect it makes pores in the membranes of the arthropod cells that surround Wolbachia, thereby allowing the phage to ...
Scientists developed a novel bone implant manufacturing method
For tissue fusion to be more efficient, the pores should have a size of several hundred microns, while the implants could be ... bigger than the pores by several orders of magnitude. In real life, an implant with a specific porous structure should be ...
Plants have little wiggle room to survive drought, scientists report
Plants that have a lower turgor loss point can lose more water before wilting, and can keep open their pores, or stomata, to ...
The secret to a stable society? A steady supply of beer doesn't hurt
Were counting atoms in the pores of the ceramics or trying to reconstruct and count the masses of molecules that were in the ...
NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock
NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore ... NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore ...
Building a better battery
The pore structure of the metal foam, combined with the dense vertical packing of CNTs, provides a labyrinth with a large ...