"Breathing" metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of soft porous crystals (SPCs) with potential for high working capacity for gas storage applications. However, most breathing MOFs have low stability and/or low surface area. Here we report a water-stable, high surface area, breathing MOF of ftw topology, NU-1105. While Zr6-oxo clusters as nodes introduce water stability in NU-11...

Veterinary antibiotics such as oxytetracycline (OTC) increasingly are found in the environment and often come into direct contact with soils via the release of animal wastes. Oxytetracycline is known to sorb strongly to soils by interaction with soil organic matter, clay minerals, and metal oxides. However, current knowledge of the influence of soil properties on OTC sorption is limited, as is ...

A new strut containing an imidazolium tetracarboxylic acid core has been successfully incorporated into a microporous material using paddlewheel-coordinated copper(II) ions as nodes. Sorption studies conducted on this permanently microporous material imply that it can separate carbon dioxide from methane with high selectivity.

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is characterized by high CO2 capture yield under mild pressures and temperatures. A morphological modification of powdery amorphous PMMA (pPMMA) carried out electrospinning to increase the surface/volume ratio resulting electrospun PMMAs (ePMMAs). This improves kinetics yields. The rate constants observed for ePMMAs are two three times higher than those pPMMA, r...

hanced transport has been clearly documented in batch and column studies (Chiou et al., 1986; Dunnivant et The apparent enhanced transport of soil-applied atrazine following al., 1992; Enfield et al., 1989; Hassett and Anderson, irrigation of treated effluents has been hypothesized to be from com1982; Hutchins et al., 1985; Kan and Tomson, 1990; plexation of atrazine with effluent-borne dissolv...

A sorption-enhanced process for hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol was designed and investigated by mathematical modelling techno-economic analysis. The methodology combined dynamic the cyclic reactor operation with pseudo-steady state overall process. With continuous adsorption water in process, highly pure (>99%) produced without downstream distillation. cycle optimized maximize production rate...

The solid-liquid interface reaction between phosphate rock (PR) and metals (Pb, Cu, and Zn) was studied. Phosphate rock has the highest affinity for Pb, followed by Cu and Zn, with sorption capacities of 138, 114, and 83.2 mmol/kg PR, respectively. In the Pb-Cu-Zn ternary system, competitive metal sorption occurred with sorption capacity reduction of 15.2%, 48.3%, and 75.6% for Pb, Cu, and Zn, ...

The reductive dissolution of hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) was investigated in a flow-through system using AH2DS, a reduced form of anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS), which is often used as a model electron shuttling compound in studies of dissimilatory microbial reduction of iron oxides. Influent flow rate, pH, and Fe(II) and phosphate concentrations were varied to investigate the redox kinetics i...