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Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Picky MOF crystals show promise For the first time, researchers have modified metal-organic frameworks to selectively capture large organic molecules. |
Chemistry World August 17, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
A MOF you can scoff Chemists have accidentally discovered a new type of metal organic framework, or MOF, which is made from edible components. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Akshat Rathi |
Molecular cages to end crystallization nightmare X-ray crystallography has shaped modern chemistry. It is a powerful tool for molecular structural analysis. But it suffers from one big drawback: it can only analyze materials that form well-defined crystals. This may now be about to change. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2006 Jon Evans |
Colloidal crystals enter period of trial separation The implications of this work could lead to new separation principles and techniques that will have significant impact on chemical separations. |
Chemistry World August 31, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
MOFs with a heart of glass Metal -- organic frameworks have long been the preserve of the solid state domain, but a group of scientists have now produced a molten MOF and cooled it to form a unique glass. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Helen Gray |
MOF gate opens selective CO2 gas storage door UK researchers have designed a metal -- organic framework that, unusually, selectively adsorbs CO 2 over ethyne by a dynamic gate-opening mechanism and has potential applications in fuel gas separation. |
Chemistry World December 2, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Chemical barcodes made from MOFs By varying the amount of luminescent lanthanides, the novel metal-organic frameworks are coded to emit a unique spectrum of light that can be read like a fingerprint. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2009 |
Bolt-on MOF catalysts Chemists in the US have shown that a class of hugely porous materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can have catalytic functions bolted onto the structure after it has been constructed to produce efficient catalysts that can be easily recovered and cycled many times. |
Chemistry World February 3, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Crack-proofing MOF membranes Chinese chemists have developed a way to reinforce metal-organic framework-based membranes to toughen them against cracking. |
Chemistry World November 6, 2011 Laura Howes |
Predicting the Perfect MOF A collaboration between theoreticians and synthetic chemists in the US has led to a new understanding of metal-organic frameworks and some promising new compounds for methane storage. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2016 Tom Wilson |
Disciplines unite to strengthen MOFs Chemists can repurpose concepts from mechanical engineering when trying to develop metal -- organic frameworks, according to researchers in the UK. |
Chemistry World April 30, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World May 4, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Molecular shuttle slides into the solid state Scientists in Canada have for the first time incorporated a 'molecular shuttle' into a metal -- organic framework, raising the possibility of future solid-state nanotechnologies based on interlocking molecules. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Hardy MOFs endure extreme conditions The most chemically and thermally stable metal-organic frameworks yet have been made by a team in the US. |
Chemistry World March 2, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Spicing up MOFs Curcumin is top of the ingredients list for a highly porous metal -- organic framework being developed by scientists in China that demonstrates a unique co-release drug delivery system. |
Chemistry World February 23, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
MOFs make light work of it UK researchers have discovered a new use for metal-organic frameworks -- as potential lighting devices. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2012 James Mitchell Crow |
MOF smashes gas storage ceiling Highly porous materials being developed as future fuel tanks for hydrogen- or methane-powered vehicles could hold much more gas than previously thought. |
Chemistry World December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 |
MOF magnets deliver drugs German scientists have encapsulated nanomagnets inside metal organic frameworks. The MOF magnets can be filled with a drug, which is released when a magnetic field is applied. |
Chemistry World May 5, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Keeping MOF pores open wide Chemists have developed a way of preventing metal-organic frameworks - hugely porous materials with enormous potential for storing a range of molecules and other structures - from 'clogging up' during synthesis. |
Chemistry World March 19, 2014 Jon Cartwright |
Computer memory made from sugar cube The sugar-based metal -- organic framework infused with rubidium hydroxide can be switched between high and low resistance states, in a similar way to resistive random-access memory. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2014 Andy Extance |
Molecular sieve membranes look to greener separations US researchers have made molecular sieving fibers that open up new possibilities for large scale chemical separations that use much less energy than conventional distillation methods. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Super sponges soak up gas Researchers in the US have shown that a recently discovered class of compound based on light elements can store gas at least as efficiently as the most promising metal organic framework candidates. |
Chemistry World March 8, 2013 Yuandi Li |
High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise Scientists in Evanston, Illinois, and in Gaithersburg, Maryland have synthesized a metal organic framework in gram-scale quantities that has 67% of the deliverable storage density of gas cylinders, but at only a quarter of the pressure. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Tools of the trade Organic synthesis has always depended on instrumental analysis, even when the instruments were a thermometer for distillations and a melting point stage for crystals. |
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues. |
Chemistry World February 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Catalytic Polyoxometalate Plays Hide and Seek in MOF Chemists in the US have managed to enhance a catalyst that can be used to destroy toxic or smelly chemicals in the air. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2013 Emily James |
Bucky-built MOFs Buckyballs can be used to build up a novel two-dimensional metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2015 Polly Wilson |
MOF blends oxidizer with fuel for a precise bang Scientists in the UK and Turkey have devised a new way to make explosive materials in a safer, simpler and more consistent manner. |
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer. |
Chemistry World June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice. |
Chemistry World November 14, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
A MOF that goes off with a bang The versatility of metal -- organic frameworks has been explosively demonstrated by chemists in China who have synthesized highly energetic three-dimensional MOFs. |
Chemistry World August 9, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
Mystery of jumping crystals solved The riddle of why a certain type of crystal leaps more than 10,000 times its length when exposed to light may have been solved. The crystals' rapid movement is a result of stresses generated in the crystal when light induces a structural change within it. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Defective by design Researchers in the UK and France have tuned the properties of a metal -- organic framework by deliberately engineering defects into its structure. |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Biomolecules Out on a Wing Photonic crystals give butterflies their beautiful colors and synthetic versions are now being developed for a range of technological applications. |
Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2012 Philip Ball |
The automatic chemist Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University -- who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists -- has unveiled a 'chemo-informatic' scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. |
Chemistry World April 7, 2015 Hugh Cowley |
The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber. |
Chemistry World May 20, 2014 Andy Extance |
Mechanism study seeks to clear 'crystalline flask' cloud The Japanese chemists behind a controversial x-ray crystallography method have used it to study a poorly-understood reaction mechanism for the first time. |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Nanoparticle dyes boost storage The idea of storing data in fluorescent dyes has been around for a while, and researchers have been trying to boost storage capacity by recording multiple bits of information in a single spot using several types of dye. A new solution to this problem uses layered nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World October 18, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Conducting MOFs make membranes for fuel cells New crystalline compounds could yield better materials for fuel cell applications, according to Canadian scientists. |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. |
Chemistry World May 27, 2015 Emma Stephen |
ZIF-8 disrupts ionic liquid deep freeze Researchers from Japan have combined an ionic liquid with a metal -- organic framework to produce an unusual material that retains its conductivity below -- 20 C. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Hamish Crawford |
Crystal structures unpacked A researcher in the UK has shed new light on which interactions are important in the packing of crystal structures. |