{"id":77901,"date":"2018-04-18T05:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/full-of-hot-air-and-proud-of-it"},"modified":"2018-04-18T05:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:42:24","slug":"full-of-hot-air-and-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/full-of-hot-air-and-proud-of-it","title":{"rendered":"Full of hot air and proud of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This could be used for hydrogen storage.<\/p>\n

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Of the four states of matter, gases are the hardest to pin down. Gas molecules move quickly and wildly and don\u2019t like to be confined. When confined, heat and pressure build in the container, and it doesn\u2019t take long before the gas blows the lid off the place, literally. Luckily, gases are superficial. Provide them with an attractive internal surface area, and they\u2019ll pin themselves down in no time. No, it\u2019s not love at first sight, it\u2019s adsorption.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdsorption is the processes of gas pinning to the surface of another material\u2014the inside walls of a container, for example,\u201d says Chris Wilmer, assistant professor in Pitt\u2019s Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. \u201cWhen adsorption occurs, the gas molecules<\/a> stop bumping into each other, reducing pressure. So, by increasing a container\u2019s internal surface area, we can store more gas in less space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Wilmer directs the Hypothetical Materials Lab, where he and his research group develop new ways to store, separate, and transport gases. They recently published their study \u201cThermal Transport in Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks\u201d in the American Chemistry Society Journal Chemistry of Materials<\/i>. The issue\u2019s cover also featured an image designed by Kutay Sezginel, a chemical engineering graduate student in Dr. Wilmer\u2019s Lab. It depicted interpenetrated metal organic frameworks<\/a> or MOFs.<\/p>\n

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This could be used for hydrogen storage. Of the four states of matter, gases are the hardest to pin down. Gas molecules move quickly and wildly and don\u2019t like to be confined. When confined, heat and pressure build in the container, and it doesn\u2019t take long before the gas blows the lid off the place, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77901","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}