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Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and ...
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Architects of a New Kind of Molecular Structure Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space

That enormous surface area is one of the unique things that make MOFs so powerful, and it comes from the nanoscale pores – tiny molecular rooms that can trap, separate, transform or transport gases, ...

U.S. scientist among trio awarded chemistry Nobel for developing new molecular architecture

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work developing a new form of molecular ...