Comment on Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world

bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• partner_boat_slug@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Capacitors store charged particles. Electrons. MOFs are useful for storing molecules as far as I know, not electrons.

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason I ask is because part of the math that tells you how much charge a capacitor can hold is based off of how large the plate for the capacitor is. And if you can stuff a football field worth of plate into a very small package, then it seems like to my layman understanding that you could make very powerful capacitors with this material, assuming it was capable of holding electrons.

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    • partner_boat_slug@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would say MOFs could be useful for batteries, but not for storing electrons directly. Why? Electrons are really small and mobile. Charged ions like in positively charged Lithium-Ions are very heavy and big by comparison.

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      • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Once again, this is going back to my laymen understanding, but since all matter, except for very rare special matter, has electrons, then it really just depends on what kind of material the MOFs fall under, which, if they were metallic or metal-like, then they might be capable of holding electrons in the right position to make new caoacitors with.

        I hope somebody investigates it, and that it turns out that it works, and that we have new ultra capacitors to add to the new solid state battery technology in the next few years and the world looks a little bit brighter.

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