I'm Omar Yaghi, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
And, also, a Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
I'm also the Director of the Global Science Institute at Berkeley.
25 years ago we discovered materials we call now metal organic frameworks, or as they are now commonly called,MOFs.
These are composed of inorganic components, which you can think of them as metal-based, also, organic components that are carbon-based.
We can combine these together almost like molecular tinker toys.
We can combine them together by stitching them together into framework structures.
And these structures have pores, so on a minute level, or on the atomic nano level, if you hold a granule of a MOF you will see that that granule is riddled with holes.
In one gram of a MOF you have a surface area of 10,000 meters squared.
And all that space is stored within that small one gram material.
