Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials

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• tastyfreeze 1 hour ago
  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.
• _JamesA_ 1 hour ago
  From the "Fall 2018 Culture Shift" issue of California Magazine.
• motoboi 1 hour ago
  > He’s also in the conversation for a Nobel.

  How does that work, actually?

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  • lern_too_spel 1 hour ago
    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.
• chairhairair 1 hour ago
  This is from 2018
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  • gjmulhol 43 minutes ago
    Not only is this from 2018, but Yaghi himself demonstrated MOFs in 1995 so "new" is pretty relative.
• westurner 45 minutes ago
  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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