In a original study,researchers from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and the U.
S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have teamed up to capture neon within a porous crystalline framework. Neon is well known for being the most unreactive element and is a key component in semiconductor manufacturing, but neon has never been studied within an biological or metal-biological framework until now. The results, or which include the critical studies carried out at the Advanced Photon Source (APS),a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne, also point the way towards a more economical and greener industrial process for neon production.
Source: phys.org