0 Question: Why does a teaspoon of MOFS equal the same volume as a football pitch? Keywords: football, MOFS Asked by anon-227163 to Georgia on 19 Nov 2019.
Georgia Orton answered on 19 Nov 2019: last edited 19 Nov 2019 9:54 am
Great question – I couldn’t believe this when j first started working with MOFs! They are molecular scale cages with lots of holes, almost like a sponge! The surface area of each hole contributes the the surface area so makes it massive. The cage thing in the picture here is a MOF: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-drawing-of-a-metal-organic-framework-MOF-structure-MOF-5-is-shown-in-the-fi_fig1_325824373
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