US 12,005,391 B2
Method for trapping noble gas atoms and molecules in oxide nanocages
Jorge A. Boscoboinik, Stony Brook, NY (US); Mengen Wang, Coram, NY (US); Deyu Lu, South Setauket, NY (US); Nusnin Akter, Bronx, NY (US); Jianqiang Zhong, Berlin (DE); Yixin Xu, Port Jefferson, NY (US); Dario J. Stacchiola, South Setauket, NY (US); and Alejandro Miguel Boscoboinik, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (US); and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (US)
Filed by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/008,198.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/946,688, filed on Dec. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0178323 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. B01D 53/32 (2006.01); B01D 53/76 (2006.01); B01J 20/28 (2006.01); B01J 20/32 (2006.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01)
CPC B01D 53/32 (2013.01) [B01D 53/76 (2013.01); B01J 20/28042 (2013.01); B01J 20/3204 (2013.01); B01J 20/3297 (2013.01); B01D 2253/106 (2013.01); B01D 2253/34 (2013.01); B01D 2257/11 (2013.01); B01D 2258/02 (2013.01); B01D 2259/10 (2013.01); B01D 2259/818 (2013.01); B01J 2220/42 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01); B82Y 40/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of trapping noble gas atoms or molecules comprising:
providing a metallic substrate;
forming one or more oxide nanocages on the metallic substrate to form a gas trapping assembly;
contacting the gas trapping assembly with a noble gas comprising noble gas atoms or noble gas molecules;
ionizing the noble gas to form noble gas cations that enter the one or more oxide nanocages; and
deionizing the noble gas cations,
wherein, after the noble gas cations enter the one or more oxide nanocages of the gas trapping assembly, the deionization of the noble gas cations forms noble gas atoms or noble gas molecules that are trapped in the one or more oxide nanocages.