Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Metal–organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

  • Debasis Banerjee,
  • Cory M. Simon,
  • Anna M. Plonka,
  • Radha K. Motkuri,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Xianyin Chen,
  • Berend Smit,
  • John B. Parise,
  • Maciej Haranczyk,
  • Praveen K. Thallapally

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11831
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Increased nuclear energy usage requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover radioactive waste, including xenon. Here, the authors perform high-throughput computational screening to identify a metal-organic framework with high xenon selectivity, and demonstrate this with performance analysis.