Nature Communications (May 2017)

Quantifying similarity of pore-geometry in nanoporous materials

  • Yongjin Lee,
  • Senja D. Barthel,
  • Paweł Dłotko,
  • S. Mohamad Moosavi,
  • Kathryn Hess,
  • Berend Smit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15396
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Pore structure plays an important role in dictating gas storage performance for nanoporous materials. Here, Smit and colleagues develop a topological approach to quantify pore structure similarity, and exploit the resulting descriptor to screen for materials that possess structural similarities with top-performers.