Ligand-Modified Metal Clusters For Gas Separation And Purification

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Brief Description

This invention is an organic ligand-bound metal surface that selects one gaseous species over another.  The species can be closely sized molecular species having less than 1 angstrom difference in kinetic diameter.  The species can comprise of carbon monoxide and ethylene,   Such organic ligand-bound metal surfaces can be successfully used in gas phase separations or purifications, sensing and in catalysis.

Suggested uses

Gas phase separations, purifications, sensing and catalysis

Advantages

Creates metal clusters for exquiste levels of specificity to reacting substrate molecules.

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