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An Extensive Class of Solids Full of Holes Large Enough To Enclose over 200 Molecules of H 2 O
Author(s) -
Abrahams Brendan F.,
FitzGerald Nicholas J.,
Robson Richard
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200702656
Subject(s) - molecule , class (philosophy) , economies of agglomeration , crystal (programming language) , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , crystallography , physics , materials science , chemistry , chemical engineering , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering , programming language , telecommunications , artificial intelligence
Swiss cheese, Gromit! A new class of solids of widely variable composition has essentially the same crystal structure reminiscent of Emmental cheese (see picture). The presence of the roughly spherical holes in the structure, which are large enough to enclose around 200 water molecules, is a consequence of the edge‐to‐face agglomeration of 12 fluorene units into pseudospherical clusters.