A HOLE NEW APPROACH

摘要

Here at the University of Bath we work on a very special class of material, known as nanoporous materials'. These materials are deliberately full of holes, in fact we frequently try to put more in, and this makes them incredibly useful. A wide variety of materials are considered nanoporous, from your standard activated carbons to zeolites, metal organic frameworks and more recently even porous polymers. It is the presence of these nano-scale sized pores that makes these materials not only unique, but also potentially world-saving.