A Gas Adsorption Analyzer for the Study of Porous Materials

本文提出了一种用于研究金属-有机骨架(MOF)的气体吸附分析仪。MOF是一类多孔性材料。就像海绵有毛孔，我们可以用它来吸收肥皂和水来清洁我们的盘子一样，MOF有毛孔可以用来储存各种用途的分子(例如，肥皂和水)(例如，清洗我们的餐具)。与我们家里的海绵不同，MOF可以用于储气、催化、化学威胁防护和许多其他应用。气体吸附分析仪被用来研究MOF内的孔隙。提出的仪器将能够告诉我们MOF有多大的内表面积，MOF有多大和多少种不同类型的孔隙，以及气体分子对孔壁的粘性程度。有了这些信息，我们就可以联系到MOF的孔是如何影响我们感兴趣的物理性质的。换句话说，所要求的设备使我们能够制造非常适合特定应用的海绵。我们的研究团队正专注于研究MOF的稳定性，以了解它们将如何适应工业应用，在良性溶液中合成MOF，使用MOF去除有毒化学物质，如SO

The present proposal is for a gas-adsorption analyzer for the study of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are a class of porous materials. Just like a sponge has pores which we can use to soak up soap and water to clean our dishes, a MOF has pores that can be used to store molecules (e.g., soap and water) for various applications (e.g., clean our dishes). Unlike our sponges at home, MOFs can be used for gas-storage, catalysis, chemical threat protection, and many other applications. A gas-adsorption analyzer is used to study the pores within a MOF. The proposed instrument will be able to tell us how much internal surface area the MOF has, how big and how many different kinds of pores the MOF has, and how "sticky" gas molecules are to the wall of the pore. With this information, we can relate how the pores of the MOF affect the physical properties we are interested in. In other words, the equipment being requested allows us to make sponges that are very good at specific applications. Our research team is focusing on studying the stability of MOFs in order to understand how they will fit in industrial applications, the synthesis of MOFs in benign solutions, the use of MOFs toward removal of toxic chemicals such as SO