This latest paper from Mark A. Spackman‘s group, based at the University of Western Australia, explores the void space in crystal structures.
An appreciation of the empty spaces in crystalline materials is vital to our understanding of how these materials behave, and in this paper, these scientists do just that. They use a new computational modelling approach to map the voids in molecular solids. Their method can be applied to molecular crystals, organic, metal–organic and inorganic polymers, so that we can understand and improve their use in various applications from gas storage to catalysis and separation.
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Visualisation and characterisation of voids in crystalline materials
Michael J. Turner, Joshua J. McKinnon, Dylan Jayatilaka and Mark A. Spackman
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00683A, Paper
