Patent ID: 8794373

Claim:
A three-dimensional air-adsorbing structure that has a volume, comprising: (i) a three-dimensional, unitary, skeletal, porous scaffold having scaffold openings distributed within the volume of the scaffold, where the scaffold openings make up at least about 50% of the volume of the scaffold; (ii) air-adsorbing material particles; and (iii) one or more hydrophobic binders that couple air-adsorbing material particles to each other to form agglomerates and couples particles and agglomerates to the scaffold; wherein the structure has structure openings in the agglomerates and structure openings between agglomerates, such structure openings being open to the outside environment, wherein the cumulative volume of the structure openings that have an apparent diameter larger than about 0.01 microns as measured by mercury porosimetry is at least 40% of the volume of the air-adsorbing structure, and the cumulative volume of the structure openings that have an apparent diameter larger than about 5 microns as measured by mercury porosimetry is at least 15% of the volume of the air-adsorbing structure.