Shining new light on air pollutants using entangled porous frameworks
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 14:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Certain types of pollution monitoring may soon become considerably easier. Scientists have shown that a newly-formulated entangled framework of porous crystals (porous coordination polymers, or PCPs) can not only capture a variety of common air pollutants, but that the mixtures then glow in specific, easily-detected colors.