"The laureates have provided chemists with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges we face,"
"large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen,"
"A small amount of such material can be almost like Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter. It can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume,"
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new class of porous molecular frameworks. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences highlighted that the architectures contain large cavities allowing molecules to flow in and out. Researchers have applied the materials to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen. Heiner Linke noted that small amounts of the material can store huge amounts of gas in tiny volumes. Kitagawa works at Kyoto University, Robson at the University of Melbourne and Yaghi at the University of California, Berkeley. The prize includes $1.2 million and will be presented in December. Last year's prize honored advances in protein design using artificial intelligence.
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