"It's like magic. Porosity is a way to do a lot with very little,"

Scientists Create Improved CO2-Absorbing Crystals: "If we take a gram of MOF-200 and unravel it, it will cover many football fields, and that is the space you have for gases to assemble," says Omar Yaghi, team leader at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, improves upon an earlier crystal named MOF-177 to produce two new versions -- MOF-200 and MOF-210 -- that stores twice the volume of gases. Read more: