/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8649/all en /newsroom/channels/news/hot-new-material-found-exist-nature-261980 <p><strong><em>ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Newsroom</em></strong></p> <p><em>Rare minerals from Siberia found to have same structure as some man-made metal-organic frameworks</em></p> <p>One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.</p> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:10:57 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 26070 at /newsroom