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Today's edition of Science features an article entitled "Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites", resulting from work perfomed on our ECHIDNA high-resolution powder diffractometer.
These materials have the ability to separate different components of natural gas, for instance propane and ethylene, from one another, a task which currently demands a good deal of energy: the efficiency of the low-temperature distillation process currently used in industry might be significantly improved.
The work results from a collaboration with University of California at Berkeley and NIST in the USA, and is the first Science article resulting from work done at the OPAL Reactor.
Published: 30/03/2012