1. The unlikely rise of liquid sponges.
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Sanderson, Katharine
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ORGANIC solvents , *LIQUIDS , *FOSSIL fuel power plants - Abstract
The story of liquid sponges - sometimes called porous liquids - begins in 2007 when chemist Stuart James began working at Queen's University Belfast in the UK. There could be another kind of porous liquid, a type 2, reasoned James, comprising a cage-like molecule dissolved in a solvent. But in a liquid, those molecules are tumbling all over the place, so designing the structure of a liquid to be sponge-like sounds preposterous. Jarad Mason at Harvard University was also intrigued by porous liquids, but noticed that they were nearly all based on organic solvents - that is, solvents made of carbon-based molecules. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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