29.2.08

CO2-Absorbing Crystals


LOS ANGELES -- Researchers at UCLA made headlines this month by developing a nanoscale crystal that traps roughly 80 times its volume of carbon dioxide. The process that head researcher Omar Yaghi and his lab used to develop the compound is potentially much more significant. At one point, the technique was yielding so many potentially useful compounds that Yahgi had to ask his students to stop so they could publish their findings.

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