Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)
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tastyfreeze
3 hours ago
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I first read about MOFs a few years ago when searching for methods of converting methane into methanol or other high value compounds. They really sound like sci-fi materials. The perfect tailored catalyst for many reactions with astounding efficiency and selectivity. I would agree that they really are miracle materials. Hopefully they will be easy to produce and cheap so we can get on with building transmutation machines. One compound in and another out.
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_JamesA_
3 hours ago
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From the "Fall 2018 Culture Shift" issue of California Magazine.
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motoboi
3 hours ago
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> He’s also in the conversation for a Nobel.

How does that work, actually?

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lern_too_spel
3 hours ago
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He was awarded the Prize in 2025 for his work on MOFs. I assume this old article was posted because of https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02143-x.
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chairhairair
3 hours ago
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This is from 2018
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gjmulhol
2 hours ago
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Not only is this from 2018, but Yaghi himself demonstrated MOFs in 1995 so "new" is pretty relative.
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ChrisArchitect
1 hour ago
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(2018) Maybe say something about why you submitted this now OP?

But more recently, this went on to win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/popular-inf... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514164)

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raincom
1 hour ago
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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Omar M. Yaghi joins Tsinghua University full-time https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1244/14984.htm
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cactusfrog
1 hour ago
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Zeolites are better
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westurner
2 hours ago
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MOF or COF for quantum computing?

Maybe "Radical COFs" or "Spintronic COFs", or Carbon-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Spintronics, e.g. GQD Graphene Quantum Dots; GQD-COFs

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