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	2010-02-01: UCLA chemists create synthetic 'gene-like' crystals for carbon dioxide capture The discovery could lead to cleaner energy, including technology that factories and cars can use to capture carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere.
	2010-01-13: 7 MOF papers in Chem. Rev. Soc. are listed among the top 10 most accessed in Chem. Rev. ...
	2009-12-11: Royal Academy Museum in London A sculpture presently on the facade of the Royal Academy Museum in London, has been inspired by ZIFs with a porous structure and flap-like elements
	2009-12-10: UCLA appoints three of world's leading chemistry scholars to endowed chairs UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has named Kendall N. Houk to the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, Omar M. Yaghi to the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Physical Sciences, and Shimon Weiss to the Dean M. Willard Chair in Chemistry. ''These are three outstanding scientists who add to the distinction and prestige of UCLA, and we are honored to count them among our colleagues,'' said Albert Courey, professor and chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department.
	2009-12-09: David Britt's work in the Yaghi Laboratory is featured in the New York Times To sequester carbon dioxide as part of any climate-change mitigation strategy, the gas first has to be captured from the flue at a power plant or other source. The next step is just as important: the CO2 has to be released from whatever captured it so that it can be pumped underground or otherwise stored for the long term.
	2009-12-02: Energy-efficient chemical filter catches carbon dioxide David Britt in Yaghi's group has found a compound that can capture and then release carbon dioxide more efficiently than other processes tested to date. Capturing CO2 is critical for purifying natural gas, and for attempts to sequester CO2 to decrease its emission into the atmosphere. Any viable CO2 filter must not only effectively capture CO2, but it must also release the CO2 in an energy efficient manner so the filter can be reused. More in a paper published in PNAS 2009.
	2009-12-01: Magnesium cage shows promise for carbon capture The material, a metal organic framework or MOF, captures and releases CO2 more efficiently than any other system tested so far and, the researchers say, should be seriously considered as a potential candidate for the energy-efficient trapping of CO2 as part of carbon capture and storage strategies to decrease the volume of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.
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