The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Oct. 8 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on metal organic frameworks (MOFs). Senior editor Prachi Patel joins a bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry to discuss what MOFs are, why they are so useful, and how they were discovered.
Check out Prachi's story on how MOFs won this year's prize at cenm.ag/chemnobel2025.
Listen to our 2018 Stereo Chemistry episode on MOFs here: http://cenm.ag/moftalk
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Executive producer: David Anderson
Host: Gina Vitale
Reporter: Prachi Patel
Audio editor: Jeremy Barr
Music: Shutterstock
Episode artwork: Lingmei Liu et al.
Episode artwork source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-020-00361-6
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