Scientists at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have borrowed a technique from the apparel industry to create molecular cloths. The development has implications for a range of products, including the capture and storage of CO2.
“We have taken the art of weaving into the atomic and molecular level, giving us a powerful new way of manipulating matter with incredible precision in order to achieve unique and valuable mechanical properties,” says Omar Yaghi, a chemist in the materials sciences division of LBNL and co-director of the Kavli Energy Nano-Science Institute (Kavli-ENSI). “Weaving in chemistry has been long sought after and is unknown in biology,” Yaghi says. “However, we have found a way of weaving organic threads...
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