Perfecting Porosity: Better living through holey chemistry

摘要

Some chemists worry plenty about nothing .... Well, almost nothing. It's the holes inside solid materials that are on their minds.rnSuch porous materials can look like ordinary rocks, but they're infiltrated with invisible nooks and crannies. Like kitchen sponges, these materials can soak up liquids with a marked thirst. And they do so with an intriguing finesse.