The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Oct. 8 awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs. Both Dianne Xiao, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ associate professor of chemistry, and Douglas Reed, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of chemistry, use MOFs in their research at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News reached out to them to learn more about the significance of these structures and how researchers use them.
