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Anibal Boscoboinik became Inventor of the Year almost by accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we do is fundamental science; it is not supposed to be applied,\u201d Boscoboinik explained. \u201cBut there was something that we found by accident that turned out could have lots of applications, and we turned it into a patent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boscoboinik is a materials scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/a> in New York state. Lately, he has been researching silicate materials \u2013 made of silicon and oxygen, common elements that make up sand \u2013 and discovered that this material, which has tiny \u201ccages\u201d about the size of an atom, can trap noble gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe accidentally found that noble gases were getting trapped inside of these little cages. We published that as a curiosity; we thought that nobody cares about noble gases because they are unreactive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, he and his colleagues started getting contacted by other researchers in relation to this finding. It turned out these little \u201cnanocages\u201d were a big deal \u2013 big enough that the Battelle Memorial Institute<\/a> chose Boscoboinik as its \u201cInventor of the Year.\u201d Battelle is a nonprofit research group that, in addition to its own research endeavors, oversees the Brookhaven National Lab and eight other national laboratories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting started at 51ÁÔÆæ<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Boscoboinik got his start in science in his home country of Argentina. While he was working toward his undergraduate degree, he attended a science conference and had a fateful encounter with 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Wilfred Tysoe, now a distinguished professor of chemistry. Intrigued by Tysoe\u2019s research, Boscoboinik eventually reached out and applied to become Tysoe\u2019s graduate student. (You can visit here<\/a> to read about another discovery by a PhD student in Tysoe\u2019s lab.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, Boscoboinik left Argentina and landed in Milwaukee, where he began the path that would lead him to become Inventor of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had an interesting start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember Professor Tysoe took me to my lab. It was in the basement of the (old Chemistry) building and he said, \u2018This is your lab.\u2019 And he showed me an empty room,\u201d Boscoboinik recalled with a smile. \u201cHe said, \u2018You have to build your equipment.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, he did. Piece by piece, over the next few years, Boscoboinik designed and built the machinery he needed to conduct his PhD research. He was dedicated to finding the best results, so much so that he even scrounged a discarded mattress from the curb in front of a dorm so that he could stow it in his lab and work overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe instrument was for doing a scanning tunneling microscopy, the image down to the atomic level, single atoms on single molecules on surfaces of materials,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is very sensitive to vibrations, so (I worked) in the basement where you get less noise. In particular, the noise is less at night because there are no cars, which produce enough vibration that you can see it when you\u2019re looking at single atoms on the surface. So, the best images were taken at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lest you think he suffered in pursuit of his research, \u201cIt was a good time. I enjoyed it,\u201d Boscoboinik said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After he graduated from 51ÁÔÆæ with his PhD in chemistry, Boscoboinik briefly worked in Germany at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society<\/a> before returning to the U.S. to take a position at Brookhaven National Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the country\u2019s system of national laboratories, BNL is known for having the world\u2019s second-largest particle accelerator after the large hadron collider at CERN in Switzerland. It is also home to a synchrotron light source and provides access to research facilities for visiting scientists from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Boscoboinik\u2019s department, the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, he and his colleagues work on materials at the nanoscale. It was here that they first discovered the interesting nature of nanocages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fundamental to applied science<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nanocages are significant because they can capture noble gases. If you think back to your high school chemistry class, you might recall that noble gases like helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon are famously non-reactive. They do not easily interact with other elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, Boscoboinik thought that his discovery was interesting from a theoretical perspective, but other scientists soon made him aware that there are numerous practical applications for his discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Two
Anibal Boscoboinik’s nanocages can capture atoms of noble gases like xenon and radon, pictured here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chief among them: Capturing radon, a poisonous gas that often finds its way into the basements of residential homes. If you have a basement, there\u2019s a chance that you also have a radon mitigation system installed in it. Radon exposure is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S. Nanocages could potentially absorb this dangerous substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s another application too, in nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you break down uranium, you release xenon. Xenon poisons a reactor because it absorbs the neutrons that maintain the fission process,\u201d Boscoboinik said. \u201cThe xenon makes them less efficient. (So there is) an application there as well for improving nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was amazing to see how relevant these things that I thought were useless really are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others agreed, and Boscoboinik was invited to the Battelle Institute\u2019s headquarters in Ohio earlier this year for a ceremony to accept his award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s excited to know that his science was great in theory \u2013 and now it will be great in practice, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Sarah Vickery, College of Letters & Science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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