U.S.-Polish Collaborative Research: Pillared Compounds: Their Synthesis, Structure and Properties

这是一个美国和波兰的合作研究项目，研究的是新型多孔材料，其孔径分布在10-20埃范围内。主要研究人员是德克萨斯农工大学的亚伯拉罕·克利尔菲尔德和弗罗茨瓦夫理工大学的杰西·佐恩。多孔材料在基于大小的分子分离方面有着广泛的用途，在催化、传感器、药物输送、离子交换和纳米科学中有着广泛的用途。其中最好的例子是沸石，它被广泛用于大多数这些目的，但最著名的是在石油裂解中提高汽油和家庭取暖油的产量。缺点是它们有用的空腔很小，不到1纳米或百万分之一英寸。十年前，一类新的无机多孔材料被发现，它们的孔分布在2-15 nm范围内，具有许多潜在的用途。这个材料研究项目实现了将美国和中东欧的顶尖专家聚集在一起，在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同利益和能力强的领域结合互补努力和能力的计划目标。

This is a U.S.-Polish collaborative research project on novel types of porous materials with narrow pore size distributions that are in the 10-20 angstrom range. The principal investigators are Abraham Clearfield from Texas A&M University and Jerzy Zon from Wroclaw University of Technology. Porous materials have a variety of uses in separating molecules based upon size, have extensive use in catalysis, sensors, drug delivery, ion exchange and nanoscience. Among the best examples are zeolites, used extensively for most of these purposes but best known as improving the yield of gasoline and home heating oil in petroleum cracking. A disadvantage is that their useful cavities are small, less than 1 nanometer or one millionth of an inch. A decade ago a new family of inorganic porous materials was discovered with narrow distribution of pores in the 2 - 15 nm range and many potential uses. This project in materials research research fulfills the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central/Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.