Meet Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry’s New Miracle Materials
- Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers.
- They can also pull water from desert air.
- A chief characteristic of MOFs, which some have been called “miracle materials,” is how much empty space they comprise.
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- Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers.
- They can also pull water from desert air.
- A chief characteristic of MOFs, which some have been called “miracle materials,” is how much empty space they comprise.
Sources: Berkeley