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Materials science: Pore characterization

Vincent Dusastre

Porous materials are extremely useful in catalysis and selective molecular filtration, and can even serve as miniature laboratories for conducting chemistry with just a few molecules at a time.Most natural porous minerals, such as zeolites, are laced with pores whose width is no greater than the size of small molecules (less than 2 nm).