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Crystalline materials built from metal ions linked by organic ligands, forming porous structures used for gas storage, separation, and catalysis.
Researchers at Politecnico di Milano and the Besta institute coated mitochondria with a metal-organic framework that left energy production running. Whether coated mitochondria beat bare ones in transplantation is still unproven, according to the release.
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University of Birmingham-led chemists built a metal-organic framework that holds 16 different metals in one crystal, the most yet reported for a MOF. The case for choosing such a material's properties in advance rests so far on varying just two of them, dysprosium and lanthanum.
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Researchers in Tokyo and Glasgow used light to read electron spins inside a metal-organic framework, the first such measurement in this porous material. No chemical has been detected with it yet, and the team says the signal needs to get stronger and work at more practical temperatures before sensors can follow.
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Atoco says its Nobel-backed MOF harvester pulls water from air with no electricity, using heat as low as 100F. That makes waste heat from AI data centers a candidate water supply, though operators still lack an output figure for the unit.
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Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar, Cambridge and Birmingham report a copper MOF that holds 490 mg of lead or 351 mg of neodymium per gram of material. Whether that lets cleanup pay for itself through recovery depends on cost and scale-up work the team says still has to be done.
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Oregon State chemists report a framework, BVR-19, that makes hydrogen from water in light with no added expensive metal catalyst. Without a reported rate or efficiency, its bearing on green hydrogen's roughly $5-a-kilogram price is still untested.
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Texas A&M simulations show that ions inside a zinc-based metal-organic framework make it easier for electrons to move through the material. The coupling matters for adaptive, neuron-like analog hardware, but the study maps a mechanism in one material and builds no device.
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UNIST-led chemists calculate that packing a liquid-hydrogen tank with the porous crystal IRMOF-20 stretches its time to empty from about 64 days to 221. Those figures come from a model of a transport-scale tank, and no working vessel has yet been tested against them.
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Oregon State researchers report in JACS that BVR-19, a metal-organic framework, makes hydrogen from water under light without an added metal catalyst. The work gives chemists design rules for solar hydrogen, but whether it can make the fuel cheaper depends on production rates and lifetimes.
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An amine-modified 2D metal-organic framework stores zinc first and protons second, reporting 368.7 mAh/g and 500-plus fast cycles. It is a material strategy, not a battery.
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Chemists made three copper frameworks and four bimetallic ones from a single ligand whose catechol groups do not react alike. Modelling and single-crystal measurements say the topology changes how charge moves.
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A University of Osaka team built a core-shell catalyst that concentrates CO2 right at isolated copper sites, and their own control runs suggest the gain comes from the interface between shell and core rather than from the copper.
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Two WashU groups arrive at the same point from opposite ends: the prediction step works, and the corpus of machine-readable synthesis recipes it needs is still being assembled.
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Zhengzhou and Adelaide researchers report a coloured textile that reflects 87.6 percent of sunlight. Measured at simulated skin, its margin over white cotton is 3.4C.
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Laura Gagliardi's lab reports UCHI-1 and UCHI-2 for methane/nitrogen separation. The interesting assertion is about the handoff, not the frameworks.
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