Plastic, It's What's for Dinner: A Preliminary Comparison of Ingested Particles in Bottlenose Dolphins and Their Prey.

Microplastic ingestion was reported for common bottlenose dolphins () inhabiting Sarasota Bay, FL, USA, a community that also has prevalent exposure to plasticizers (i.e., phthalates) at concentrations higher than human reference populations.

Monolithic metal-organic frameworks for carbon dioxide separation.

Carbon dioxide (CO) is both a primary contributor to global warming and a major industrial impurity. Traditional approaches to carbon capture involve corrosive and energy-intensive processes such as liquid amine absorption. Although adsorptive separation has long been a promising alternative to traditional processes, up to this point there has been a lack of appropriate adsorbents capable of capturing CO whilst maintaining low regeneration energies.

Immobilization of a Polar Sulfone Moiety onto the Pore Surface of a Humid-Stable MOF for Highly Efficient CO Separation under Dry and Wet Environments through Direct CO-Sulfone Interactions.

The stability of microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in moist environments must be taken into consideration for their practical implementations, which has been largely ignored thus far. Herein, we synthesized a new moisture-stable Zn-MOF, , , by utilizing a bent organic linker 4,4'-sulfonyldibenzoic acid (HSDB) containing a polar sulfone group (-SO) and a N, N-donor spacer () with a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 216 m g. This material displays greater CO adsorption capacity over N and CH with high IAST selectivity, which is also validated by breakthrough experiments with longer breakthrough times for CO.

Metal-Organic Material Polymer Coatings for Enhanced Gas Sorption Performance and Hydrolytic Stability under Humid Conditions.

Physisorbent metal-organic materials (MOMs) have shown benchmark performance for highly selective CO capture from bulk and trace gas mixtures. However, gas stream moisture can be detrimental to both adsorbent performance and hydrolytic stability. One of the most effective methods to solve this issue is to transform the adsorbent surface from hydrophilic to hydrophobic.