Sorta like the difference between, say, writing a book on paper vs stone tablets: if it’s a 100 page book, the paper version is compact while the stone tablet version is utterly useless.
Well, not utterly useless.................
Probably that it’s ALL surface. Every atom is at the surface. There is practically no thickness, no volume to speak of.
Unlike most structures, where there is a thickness which is a practical waste of space when it’s the surface that matters.
Say the structure shown in #5 above was instead, oh, 3 atoms thick (that’s pretty darned thin) - that would have 1/3rd the surface per volume as this stuff does.
Sorta like the difference between, say, writing a book on paper vs stone tablets: if it’s a 100 page book, the paper version is compact while the stone tablet version is utterly useless.
Sorta like the difference between, say, writing a book on paper vs stone tablets: if it’s a 100 page book, the paper version is compact while the stone tablet version is utterly useless.
Well, not utterly useless.................