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Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous, crystalline materials capable of trapping substances like greenhouse gases or harvesting water from dry air. Developed by chemist Omar Yaghi, these materials are being scaled for practical applications such as providing water to arid regions using solar energy.
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers. They can also pull water from desert air.
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