{"id":168834,"date":"2023-08-01T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fullerene-pillared-porous-graphene-with-high-water-adsorption-capacity"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:18","slug":"fullerene-pillared-porous-graphene-with-high-water-adsorption-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fullerene-pillared-porous-graphene-with-high-water-adsorption-capacity","title":{"rendered":"Fullerene-pillared porous graphene with high water adsorption capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fullerene-pillared-porous-graphene-with-high-water-adsorption-capacity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Separation processes are essential in the purification and concentration of a target molecule during water purification, removal of pollutants, and heat pumping, accounting for 10\u201315% of global energy consumption. To make the separation processes more energy efficient, improvement in the design of porous materials is necessary. This could drastically reduce energy costs by about 40\u201370%. The primary approach to improving the separation performance is to precisely control the pore structure.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, porous carbon materials offer a distinct advantage as they are composed of only one type of atom and have been well-used for separation processes. They have large pore volumes and surface areas, providing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+performance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high performance<\/a> in gas separation, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+purification\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water purification<\/a>, and storage. However, pore structures generally have high heterogeneity with low designability. This poses various challenges, limiting the applicability of carbon materials in separation and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers from Japan, led by Associate Professor Tomonori Ohba from Chiba University and including master\u2019s students, Mr. Kai Haraguchi and Mr. Sogo Iwakami, has fabricated fullerene-pillared porous <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> (FPPG)\u2014a carbon composite comprising nanocarbons\u2014using a bottom-up approach with highly designable and controllable pore structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separation processes are essential in the purification and concentration of a target molecule during water purification, removal of pollutants, and heat pumping, accounting for 10\u201315% of global energy consumption. To make the separation processes more energy efficient, improvement in the design of porous materials is necessary. This could drastically reduce energy costs by about 40\u201370%. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}