Chemistry of carbon capture inside porous melamine networks (IMAGE)
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UC Berkeley researchers developed a brand-new family of sustainable, scalable, solid-state materials — polyamine-appended, cyanuric acid-stabilized, melamine nanoporous networks — that spontaneously adsorb CO2 for carbon capture and storage. In the graphic, carbon dioxide molecules (carbon in silver, oxygen in red) interact with amines in the material (nitrogen in blue, hydrogen in green), allowing the material to adsorb the gas from smokestack emissions. The yellow balls with arrows represent carbon-13 isotopes and their nuclear spins, which were employed in NMR studies of the material.
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Haiyan Mao and Jeffrey Reimer, UC Berkeley
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