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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 ...

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for new form of molecular architecture

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Wednesday for their work developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), whose ...

Floating electrons on a sea of helium

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientist trio for Harry Potter-like work in molecular architecture

The chemistry functions like Hermione Granger's handbag in the Harry Potter books, which appears small on the outside but is large on the inside.

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, ...

Trio wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new form of molecular architecture

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new form of ...