Design and Preparation of Organic Molecular Crystals as Storage Materials of Clean Energy Gas

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23550052
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Organic chemistry
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: TSUE Hirohito 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (30271711)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TAMURA Rui 京都大学, 大学院人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (60207256) ; TAKAHASHI Hiroki 京都大学, 大学院人間・環境学研究科, 助教 (00321779)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 有機結晶 / 結晶構造 / 気体吸着

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Investigated were the preparation and gas adsorption behavior of the organic molecular crystals of azacalixarenes and dipeptides in order to explore their possibility to store methane, a clean energy gas, into the organic crystals composed of light elements. As an eventual outcome, the organic molecular crystals of azacalixarenes were found to exhibit the uptake of methane. Gas adsorption states were successfully visualized at an atomic level by means of X-ray crystallography.

Free Research Field

有機化学