Matthew Hill, who is part of the CSRIOseven, works with Advanced materials in Melbourne. He and his team of scientists have been developing a new material called Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). This material has the potential to revolutionise the way we dispose and store various gases like carbon dioxide. This material has been tested and proven to filter pollution and provide cost effective solutions for energy use.
Metal Organic Frameworks may look like ordinary salt or sugar crystals; however, they have a huge number of holes making them an extremely porous material. MOFs are 80% empty and every single atom is surrounded by empty space. The holes in the powder create surface area, so much, that one teaspoon of MOFs has the surface of an …show more content…
The first hydrogen powered car came to Australia in Sydney. A gas cylinder is filled with hydrogen to run the car and it you add the Metal Organic Frameworks, the cylinders can hold up to twice the amount of hydrogen meaning the car can be powered for longer. Also, the only thing that comes out from the exhaust pipe of hydrogen cars is water, meaning there are absolutely no carbon emissions.
MOFs can also be filters to capture carbon. Matthew and his team put the MOFs into layers of plastic polymers. These layers make a filtration system which can be connected to a pollution stream. Matthew and the scientists predicted the filter would last about only a week. However, when the filter was checked about a month later, the layers of plastic polymers had kept filtering.
The filter’s elongated life was due to the polymers bonding with the MOFs creating a new material that would last, not for a few weeks, but for years to come. This decreases the cost for filtering the pollution stream, making it a practical choice.
Metal Organic Frameworks not only reduce carbon emissions, they could also play an enormous part in saving energy as well. More than 40% of energy used in large industries is taken up to separate things. Separations let out lots of carbon dioxide and happen every day all over the world. However, if MOFs are used, separations would use less energy and would not have any carbon
Metal Organic Frameworks may look like ordinary salt or sugar crystals; however, they have a huge number of holes making them an extremely porous material. MOFs are 80% empty and every single atom is surrounded by empty space. The holes in the powder create surface area, so much, that one teaspoon of MOFs has the surface of an …show more content…
The first hydrogen powered car came to Australia in Sydney. A gas cylinder is filled with hydrogen to run the car and it you add the Metal Organic Frameworks, the cylinders can hold up to twice the amount of hydrogen meaning the car can be powered for longer. Also, the only thing that comes out from the exhaust pipe of hydrogen cars is water, meaning there are absolutely no carbon emissions.
MOFs can also be filters to capture carbon. Matthew and his team put the MOFs into layers of plastic polymers. These layers make a filtration system which can be connected to a pollution stream. Matthew and the scientists predicted the filter would last about only a week. However, when the filter was checked about a month later, the layers of plastic polymers had kept filtering.
The filter’s elongated life was due to the polymers bonding with the MOFs creating a new material that would last, not for a few weeks, but for years to come. This decreases the cost for filtering the pollution stream, making it a practical choice.
Metal Organic Frameworks not only reduce carbon emissions, they could also play an enormous part in saving energy as well. More than 40% of energy used in large industries is taken up to separate things. Separations let out lots of carbon dioxide and happen every day all over the world. However, if MOFs are used, separations would use less energy and would not have any carbon