Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery
  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
    495·
    2 days ago

    ‘Hermione’s handbag’

    Could we not, please? We’re hopefully still - on average - scientifically literate enough to understand what ‘large surface area’ and ‘porous’ means.

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      66·
      2 days ago

      Could we not, please? We’re hopefully still - on average - scientifically literate enough to understand what ‘large surface area’ and ‘porous’ means.

      Damn right.

      We all know the correct term is “bag of holding”.

    • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Agreed. Unnecessary and obscure reference thrown in because it’s obscure but “intriguing”.

      “A small amount of such material can be almost like Hermione’s handbag in Harry Potter. It can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume.”