US Patent Issued to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE on Aug. 4 for "Method for the capture of carbon dioxide using oxyfluoride physisorbents" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,303, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Method for the capture of carbon dioxide using oxyfluoride physisorbents" was invented by Daniel O'Nolan (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Mustapha Soukri (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) comprising square arrays of nickel cationic centers linked by N-donor organic ligands and pillared with tungsten oxyfluoride anion are described. In an exemplary MOF, the N-donor organic ligands are pyrazine and the MOF has a pore size of less than about 7 angstroms. Methods of using the MOF to selectively capture carbon...