Chemists' Prayers Answered by the Holiest Crystal of All?

摘要

Porous solids with enormous cavities might well solve two problems confronting chemists this century: greener catalysts for industry and better ways of storing gases, not least of which is hydrogen. Paper #1 reports what is currently me structure with the largest cavities of all, and at 700,000 A~3 it is several times larger than any previously known compound. It has an unprecedented surface area of 5,900 m~2 per gram and, moreover, it is a crystalline solid, which means its exact atomic structure can be measured. The material can be made from readily available chemicals.