X-Ray Induced Synthesis of a Novel Material: Stable, Doped Solid CO at Ambient Conditions

Authors

Michael Pravica, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Egor Evlyukhin, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Petrika Cifligu, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Blake Harris, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jung Jae Koh, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ning Chen, University of Saskatchewan
Yonggang Wang, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Chemical Physics Letters

Volume

686

First page number:

183

Last page number:

188

Abstract

We report a novel synthesis of stable doped solid carbon monoxide (p-CO) via hard X-ray irradiation of strontium oxalate at ambient conditions and high pressure. We also show via mid- and far- infrared (IR) techniques that CO2 produced via X-ray photochemistry remained trapped within the recovered sample for many months in contrast to pure p-CO which decomposes in days. Our results demonstrate that p-CO doped with carbonates (as verified with IR and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopies) is relatively stable, enabling longer term and practical use of this novel material for CO2 storage or as a novel electrical/optical material. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.

Language

english

Repository Citation

Pravica, M., Evlyukhin, E., Cifligu, P., Harris, B., Jae Koh, J., Chen, N., Wang, Y. (2017). X-Ray Induced Synthesis of a Novel Material: Stable, Doped Solid CO at Ambient Conditions. Chemical Physics Letters, 686 183-188.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2017.08.053