{"id":374117,"date":"2010-03-01T05:52:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2216"},"modified":"2010-02-28T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:42:47","slug":"ucla-research-carbon-capturing-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374117","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Research &#8211; Carbon Capturing Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"122\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ioe.ucla.edu\/media\/images\/Yaghi_models-large.jpg\" alt=\"Carbon capturing crystals\" title=\"Carbon capturing crystals\" \/>Chemists at UCLA have created a &quot;gene&quot; that might capture CO2 and help control CO2 emissions. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic &quot;gene&quot; that could capture &#8230; carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; taken organic and inorganic units and combined them into a synthetic crystal which codes information in a DNA-like manner &#8230; no means as sophisticated as DNA, but it is certainly new in chemistry and materials science.&quot;<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" height=\"103\" border=\"2\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/35\/Carbon_dioxide_structure.png\/120px-Carbon_dioxide_structure.png\" alt=\"CO2 molecule\" title=\"CO2 molecule\" \/><br \/>&quot; &#8230; could lead to cleaner energy, including technology that factories and cars can use to capture carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; invented a class of materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), sometimes described as crystal sponges &#8230; openings on the nanoscale &#8230; which &#8230; can store gases that are usually difficult to store and transport. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:<\/strong>&nbsp; UCLA&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioe.ucla.edu\/research\/article.asp?parentid=5641\"  title=\"UCLA\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists at UCLA have created a &quot;gene&quot; that might capture CO2 and help control CO2 emissions. &quot;UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic &quot;gene&quot; that could capture &#8230; carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans.&quot; &quot; &#8230; taken organic and inorganic units and combined them into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}