Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Carbon dioxide capture and conversion by an acid-base resistant metal-organic framework

  • Linfeng Liang,
  • Caiping Liu,
  • Feilong Jiang,
  • Qihui Chen,
  • Linjie Zhang,
  • Hui Xue,
  • Hai-Long Jiang,
  • Jinjie Qian,
  • Daqiang Yuan,
  • Maochun Hong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01166-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Increasing CO2 emissions pose serious environmental issues. Here, the authors report the synthesis of a robust metal-organic framework which displays high volumetric uptake of post-combustion CO2 under ambient conditions and can catalyze CO2 fixation into cyclic carbonates.