Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

tastyfreeze

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.

motoboi

> He’s also in the conversation for a Nobel. How does that work, actually?

_JamesA_

From the "Fall 2018 Culture Shift" issue of California Magazine.

chairhairair

This is from 2018

westurner

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

cactusfrog

Zeolites are better

ChrisArchitect

(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 )

robk

Cusp AI is doing interesting things in this space