New Delhi: The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have developed a novel molecular architecture with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow, called metal-organic frameworks. These metal-organic frameworks have a wide variety of uses including capturing water from dry desert air, sequestering carbon, scrubbing toxic gases from hazardous environments and catalysing chemical reactions. These meta-organic frameworks use metal ions linked by long carbon-based or organic molecules, forming a crystal with large cavities. These porous materials are called metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs). By choosing the building blocks of the MOFs, they can be modified to capture and store particular substances.

The development of MOFs goes back to 1989 when Richard Robson who combine

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