Using pressure to swell pores, not crush them
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 15:00
in Physics & Chemistry
More than a decade ago, Thomas Vogt and Yongjae Lee, then colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory, uncovered a counter-intuitive property of zeolites. When they put these porous minerals in water, and then put the water under high pressure, the tiny cavities within the zeolites actually grew in size.