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Australia: CO2 Emissions Soaked Up By CSIRO Solar Sponge

2013-02-20 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: A group of scientists at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia`s national science agency, have created a "solar sponge" using a metal organic framework (MOF) that absorbs carbon dioxide, but releases it when exposed to sunlight. The journal Angewandte Chemie published a paper detailing MOF. The interaction is known as dynamic photo-switching. The capture-and-release method of dynamic photo-switching requires only UV light to trigger the release of collected...

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