Nanocage Argon Trapping Research Team (IMAGE)
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(Left to right) Anibal Boscoboinik, Jian-Qiang Zhong, Dario Stacchiola, Nusnin Akter, Taejin Kim, Deyu Lu, and Mengen Wang at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN). The team of scientists (including John Kestell and Alejandro Boscoboinik) carried out experiments at CFN, at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source I and II, and in the Lab's Chemistry Division to study the trapping of individual argon gas atoms (blue prop in Stacchiola's hand) in two-dimensional (2D) nanoporous frameworks like the one Boscoboinik and Zhong are holding. They had been using these 2-D frameworks as analogues to study catalysis in 3-D porous materials called zeolites (structural model on the table), which speed up many important reactions such as the conversion of nitrogen-oxide emissions into nitrogen.
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