Designing selective sponges (IMAGE)

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Designing selective sponges

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Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Anastasia Ilgen works on a vapor sorption analyzer used for characterizing the chemistry of porous solids such as metal-organic frameworks. Ilgen and her team designed MOFs for selectively purifying rare-earth elements.

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