Besides, unlike the existing
3D organic frameworks, the structure of resulting material is highly stable in a practical range of thermal and physiochemical conditions.
An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal -
organic frameworks (MOFs)--
3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.