A question of reproducibility

By Mark Peplow2018-01-16T12:30:00

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Survey of metal–organic frameworks raises concerns about the reliability of adsorption data

People can get a little defensive when David Sholl takes the stage at conferences. It’s understandable – last year, he and his colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta analysed reported CO₂ adsoprtion measurements for thousands of MOFs and found out that there could be be a 1 in 5 chance that the results are wrong.