Zeolite Structure for Carbon Capture (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Zeolite Structure for Carbon Capture

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This is an example of the 50 best zeolite structures for capturing carbon dioxide. Zeolite is a porous solid made of silicon dioxide, or quartz. In the model, the red balls are oxygen, the tan balls are silicon. The blue-green area is where carbon dioxide prefers to adsorb.

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Berend Smit laboratory, UC Berkeley

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