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A football field in a teaspoon: New material has insane surface area
Using principles from rocket science, researchers have created carbon with a record-breaking surface area. The material can soak up about twice the amount of CO2 as current activated carbon materials and has impressive energy-storage capabilities.
As you might remember from combining baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano in high school, when certain chemicals come in contact with each other, the results can be explosive. “I was trying to understand how to harness and control these unexplored reactions for synthesizing various carbon nanostructures, and after adjusting various parameters, I discovered that we might be able to achieve ultrahigh porosity,” said Chalmpes, lead author of the study. They created carbon that has an astonishing surface area of 4,800 square meters per gram which, they say, is roughly equivalent to the size of a football field packed down neatly onto a teaspoon.
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