Method of storing, uptaking, releasing of gases by novel framework materials

US6929679B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• BASF SE
• THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN · US

Inventors

• Ulrich Müller · Neustadt, DE
• Klaus Harth · Altleiningen, DE
• Markus Hölzle · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Michael Hesse · Westlake Village, US
• Lisa Lobree · Philadelphia, US
• Wolfgang Harder · Weinheim, DE
• Omar M. Yaghi · Los Angeles, US
• Mohamed Eddaoudi · Thuwal, SA

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 3, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S502/526
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to the technical field of storing gas including methane and hydrogen, in particular to the fuel cell technology. In particulars it relates to a method of using a metallo-organic framework material comprising pores and at least one metal ion and at least one at least bidentate organic compound.