What is a MOF?

Did you know there are materials that can capture water from desert air?

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 recognises the development of materials with completely new features. The chemistry laureates have created porous metal–organic frameworks (abbreviated as MOFs). These have large cavities that other molecules can move in and out of. MOFs can be used to, for example, capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from the desert air.

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