Gas transport through a metal cluster-containing crystalline solid. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Gas transport through a metal cluster-containing crystalline solid.

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Gas transport through a metal cluster-containing crystalline solid.
Hydrogen and carbon monoxide travel at different speeds due to their molecular size relative to the size of nanoscale tunnels in the structure. While hydrogen binds reversibly, carbon monoxide binds irreversibly and distorts the original crown-motif of the platinum and gold atoms into a chalice-motif.

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