Higher Concentrations of Oxygen Whenever it is Needed!!

 

New material steals oxygen from the air: One spoonful absorbs all the oxygen in a room.

 

"In the lab, we saw how this material took up oxygen from the air around us," says Christine McKenzie. "The new material is crystalline, and using x-ray diffraction the researchers have studied the arrangement of atoms inside the material when it was filled with oxygen, and when it was emptied of oxygen." The fact that a substance can react with oxygen is not surprising.

"With this complexity it becomes possible to produce devices that release and/or absorb oxygen under different circumstances -- for example a mask containing layers of these materials in the correct sequence might actively supply a person with oxygen directly from the air without the help of pumps or high pressure equipment."

When the substance is saturated with oxygen, it can be compared to an oxygen tank containing pure oxygen under pressure -- the difference is that this material can hold three times as much oxygen," says Christine McKenzie."This could be valuable for lung patients who today must carry heavy oxygen tanks with them."


Resource:
 University of Southern Denmark. "New material steals oxygen from the air: One spoonful absorbs all the oxygen in a room." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 September 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140930113254.htm>.