A research at the University of Pittsburgh has revealed that high volume gas molecules storage or the pharmaceuticals delivery into the human body can be regulated in a better way.
An alternative procedure for developing porous materials has been proposed by a group of colleagues and chemists from the Pitt School of Medicine and Northwestern and Durham universities and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. The study was published in an online paper titled “Nature Communications”.
Till date, the research team has reported the biggest metal organic framework pore size, which is achieved by altering the dimensions of the metal cluster vertices, connected together by organic molecules to create 1D, 2D, or 3D porous structure, instead of changing the organic molecule link length.
Nathaniel Rosi, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in Department of Chemistry in the Pitt’s Dietrich School, stated that an open structure material having large pore volumes can be developed by increasing the link length between the organic molecules or by increasing the metal cluster vertices and by connecting the increased link and vertices together. Rosi commented that along with other members of the research team, they build an innovative approach to design and regulate the structures based on the molecule-by-molecule technology.
Jihyun An and Rosi, Lead Authors of the paper “Nature Communications”, stated that this linking technique can have a significant development for alternative energy, an impact on conserving increased volume of gas including methane or CO2 or high volumes of drug molecules, which can affect the drug-delivery division. A laboratory employed with postdoctoral researchers and students was developed by Rosi, after joining Pitts, to concentrate on innovative approaches for design and discovery of the materials.