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Title: Metal–organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11831· OSTI ID:1340382
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  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Physical and Computational Science Directorate
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
  3. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Department of Geosciences
  4. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Energy and Environmental Directorate
  5. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Department of Chemistry
  6. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering ; Institut des Sciences et Ingenierie Chimiques, Valais, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
  7. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Department of Geosciences and Department of Chemistry; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Photon Sciences
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Computational Research Division; IMDEA Materials Institute, C/Eric Kandel 2, Madrid (Spain)
  9. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Physcial and Computational Science Directorate

Nuclear energy is among the most viable alternatives to our current fossil fuel-based energy economy. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate radioactive waste. A major concern with reprocessing used nuclear fuel is the release of volatile radionuclides such as xenon and krypton that evolve into reprocessing facility off-gas in parts per million concentrations. The existing technology to remove these radioactive noble gases is a costly cryogenic distillation; alternatively, porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks have demonstrated the ability to selectively adsorb xenon and krypton at ambient conditions. Here we carry out a high-throughput computational screening of large databases of metal-organic frameworks and identify SBMOF-1 as the most selective for xenon. We affirm this prediction and report that SBMOF-1 exhibits by far the highest reported xenon adsorption capacity and a remarkable Xe/Kr selectivity under conditions pertinent to nuclear fuel reprocessing.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies (CGS); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; SC0001015; AC05-06OR23100; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-76RL01830; DMR-1231586; CHE-0840483
OSTI ID:
1340382
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1290365; OSTI ID: 1379396
Report Number(s):
BNL-112568-2016-JA; PNNL-SA-116761
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 298 works
Citation information provided by
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