Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for creating porous materials with blocks of molecules that capture substances and drive reactions "

The discovery of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) opened the door to an extraordinary variety of applications, from gas storage and separation to catalysis, detection, and controlled drug release. The beauty of MOFs lies in their modular design: by modifying the metal nodes and/or organic linkers, it is possible to design tailor-made materials with perfectly controlled pore size, shape, and chemical functionality. This unprecedented structural and chemical diversity makes MOFs particularly promising for carbon dioxide capture, where balancing selectivity, capacity, and stability is essential to meet the demanding requirements of industrial-scale implementation.