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New materials for life support scrubbers

Spinward Flow

Spinward Flow

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I'm thinking that the "library" of Metal Oxide Frameworks (MOFs) will eventually get developed into engineering that makes a difference to how life support technologies operate. Research in this area is only in its infancy, but I can easily imagine materials of this sort being used as "molecular sponges" for unwanted life support byproducts (CO2 being merely one of them) which would require periodic "purges" using starport berthing services to ... reinitialize ... for repeated use. So basically another type of chemical scrubber, but one which can be "tuned" to capture and release specific molecules into and from the sealed environment in spacecraft/starships.
 
That had been recommended to me somewhat earlier.


I drew two conclusions:

1. Life support has to remove toxic elements from the atmosphere.

2. It has to liberate the oxygen from the carbon.

The carbon could be sequestered, and used as three dimensional printing material.
 
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