We can only speculate that they may have been influenced by the numerous other reports of pore volumes in this range and did aim to consult an independent benchmark. Going forward, we suggest to consider adsorption analyses and conclusions drawn from works on Nitrogen uptake (mmol/g) Since incomplete activation was the most-cited reason for low pore volumes, we modelled the expected pore volume for CuBTC in the presence of several solvents. As shown in Table , partial activation can certainly explain the large reductions observed in CuBTC (but other hypotheses are also plausible).