Metal-organic frameworks: Hot 'new' material found to exist in nature in rare minerals from Siberia
Friday, August 5, 2016 - 13:01
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.