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Amorphous Molecular Organic Solids for Gas Adsorption
Author(s) -
Tian Jian,
Thallapally Praveen K.,
Dalgarno Scott J.,
McGrail Peter B.,
Atwood Jerry L.
Publication year - 2009
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.200900479
Subject(s) - amorphous solid , adsorption , organic molecules , solid state , materials science , computer science , nanotechnology , molecule , chemistry , organic chemistry
Fixing the hole : Molecular organic compounds with large accessible internal cavities display gas‐storage ability in the amorphous solid state. This finding suggests for the first time that long‐range molecular order is not a prerequisite for organic molecules to be engineered as porous materials.