[Nat Chem] Nanocrystals Capable of Adsorbing Individual Guest Molecules Successfully Fabricated

April 19, 2010

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Reseachers from Kyoto University (Hiroshi Matsumoto, President) and RWTH Aachen University in Germany (Ernst M. Schmachtenberg, Rector) have announced the ability to create nano-sized crystals that may lead to the development of new environmental technologies capable of aiding in separating gasses.

The findings by Prof. and Deputy Director Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Drs. Daisuke Tanaka and Jürgen Groll of the Extenal LinkDWI at RWTH Aachen University were published on April 18 in the online edition of Nature Chemistry.

This research was conducted by the Extenal LinkKitagawa Integrated Pores Project, part of the Extenal LinkExploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program funded by the Extenal LinkJapan Science and Technology Agency (JST).




Dr. Daisuke Tanaka

Dr. Jürgen Groll

Prof. Susumu Kitagawa

Extenal LinkRapid preparation of flexible porous coordination polymer nanocrystals with accelerated guest adsorption kinetics

Daisuke Tanaka, Artur Henke, Krystyna Albrecht, Martin Moeller, Keiji Nakagawa, Susumu Kitagawa and Juergen Groll

Nature Chemistry
Published online: 18 April 2010 | doi:10.1038/nchem.627


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