The use of confocal fluorescence microscopy to image defects in crystalline, porous solids known as metal–organic frameworks enables the relationship between the number of defects and the materials' properties to be determined.
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Serre, C. Defects visualized in porous solids. Nature 493, 313–314 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/493313a
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