Nanoporous materials for the onboard storage of natural gas

KV Kumar, K Preuss, MM Titirici… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Climate change, global warming, urban air pollution, energy supply uncertainty and
depletion, and rising costs of conventional energy sources are, among others, potential …

Design principles for covalent organic frameworks in energy storage applications

SB Alahakoon, CM Thompson, G Occhialini… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an exciting class of porous materials that have
been explored as energy‐storage materials for more than a decade. This review discusses …

Porous 3D polymers for high pressure methane storage and carbon dioxide capture

S Bracco, D Piga, I Bassanetti, J Perego… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
High surface area 3D polymers represent one of the most promising classes of porous
materials because of their high gas uptake and stability to thermal and chemical …

Hierarchical porous cellulose/activated carbon composite monolith for efficient adsorption of dyes

Q Bai, Q Xiong, C Li, Y Shen, H Uyama - Cellulose, 2017 - Springer
Cheap and efficient adsorbents to remove contaminants of toxic dye molecules from
wastewater are strongly in demand for environmental reasons. This study provides a novel …

Influence of the oxygen-containing surface functional groups in the methane hydrate nucleation and growth in nanoporous carbon

ME Casco, C Cuadrado-Collados… - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
Petroleum pitch-derived activated carbon (PP-AC) has proved to be an excellent platform to
promote the methane hydrate formation in milder condition than nature, even though the …

Activated carbon and metal organic framework as adsorbent for low-pressure methane storage applications: an overview

A Policicchio, R Filosa, S Abate, G Desiderio… - Journal of Porous …, 2017 - Springer
The aim of this comprehensive review on materials for methane storage application is to
understand which are the best conditions and the best materials for their use for the …

Removal or storage of environmental pollutants and alternative fuel sources with inorganic adsorbents via host–guest encapsulation

AJ Cramer, JM Cole - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ever-increasing demands of the modern world continue to place substantial strain on
the environment. To help alleviate the damage done to the natural world, the encapsulation …

Hyper-crosslinked aromatic polymers with improved microporosity for enhanced CO 2/N 2 and CO 2/CH 4 selectivity

D Chen, S Gu, Y Fu, X Fu, Y Zhang, G Yu… - New Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Hypercrosslinked polymers for selective CO2 capture have been successfully synthesized
from highly rigid contorted blocks via a low-cost versatile strategy. Such amorphous …

Preparation and characterisation of biosilica from teff (eragrostis tef) straw by thermal method

AB Bageru, VC Srivastava - Materials Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Biosilica was synthesised via thermal method from teff (Eragrostis tef) straw, an African
agricultural waste, at three different ashing temperatures. Raw teff, characterised by various …

Zeolite adsorbent-MOF layered nanovalves for CH4 storage

KL Tate, S Li, M Yu, MA Carreon - Adsorption, 2017 - Springer
Herein we demonstrate the use of metal organic framework layers coated on zeolite 5A
adsorbent as effective nano-valves for CH 4 storage at low storage pressure. The resultant …