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

45 pointsby andsoitisyesterday at 11:00 PM10 commentsview on HN

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tastyfreezeyesterday at 11:38 PM

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_yesterday at 11:45 PM

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

motoboiyesterday at 11:40 PM

> He’s also in the conversation for a Nobel.

How does that work, actually?

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chairhairairyesterday at 11:49 PM

This is from 2018

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ChrisArchitecttoday at 1:37 AM

(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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westurnertoday at 12:16 AM

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

cactusfrogtoday at 1:28 AM

Zeolites are better

ottotarctoday at 12:50 AM

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