IMF: Areas and Volumes

Framework Type IMF

Volumes and areas calculated from the idealized framework model
Occupiable Volume		1999.13	Å³	(12.14	%)
Accessible Volume		1997.01	Å³	(12.12	%)
Occupiable Area		2573.37	Å²	(895.57	m²/g)
Accessible Area		2551.31	Å²	(887.89	m²/g)
Specific Occupiable Area		1562.25	m²/cm³
Specific Accessible Area		1548.85	m²/cm³
Maximum diameter of a sphere:
	that can be included	7.34	Å
	that can diffuse along	a: 5.44	Å	b: 1.84	Å	c: 5.2	Å

Explanations
Occupiable volume	That portion of the available volume within the cell that can be visited by the center of a (spherical) water molecule (radius = 1.4Å). The available volume is the unit cell volume remaining after the van der Waals atomic sphere volumes are subtracted.
Occupiable area	The area of that surface visited by the center of the water molecule.
Accessible volume	That portion of the occupiable volume that has continuity between all unit unit cells. Some pores/cavities have windows that are too small to allow the water molecule access, and so represent isolated occupiable regions.
Accessible area	The area of that surface visited by the center of the water molecule.
Specific occupiable area	Occupiable area per unit volume
Specific accessible area	Accessible area per unit volume

Credits:
These values were calculated by Mike Treacy, Arizona State University, using his codes "TOTOPOL" and "DelaneysDonkey".
see also:
M. D. Foster, I. Rivin, M. M. J. Treacy and O. Delgado Friedrichs,
A geometric solution to the Largest-Free-Sphere problem in zeolite frameworks,
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 90 32-38 (2006).