Noria: A Highly Xe‐Selective Nanoporous Organic Solid |
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| Authors: | Rahul S Patil Dr Debasis Banerjee Cory M Simon Prof Jerry L Atwood Dr Praveen K Thallapally |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States;2. Fundamental and Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States;3. Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States |
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| Abstract: | Separation of xenon and krypton is of industrial and environmental concern; the existing technologies use cryogenic distillation. Thus, a cost‐effective, alternative technology for the separation of Xe and Kr and their capture from air is of significant importance. Herein, we report the selective Xe uptake in a crystalline porous organic oligomeric molecule, noria, and its structural analogue, PgC‐noria, under ambient conditions. The selectivity of noria towards Xe arises from its tailored pore size and small cavities, which allows a directed non‐bonding interaction of Xe atoms with a large number of carbon atoms of the noria molecular wheel in a confined space. |
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| Keywords: | adsorption organic macrocyclic compounds selective gas separation xenon |
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