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 simple explanation: they are very porous materials, like sponges, with many channels inside, a large internal surface area, where many reactions can take place. They can be used with catalysts to absorb gases such as CO₂ and capture it for reuse or to remove it from the atmosphere. Omar M. Yaghi, for example, has created highly hydrophilic materials of this type to obtain water in liquid form in the desert, capturing the small amount of water in the air thanks to their extensive surface area.

They are literally like molecular sponges, like microscopic sponges, made of metals and organic substances, which is why they are called Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). They have metal nodes and organic substances. The beauty of this is that both parts, the metals and the organic substances, can be customized to some extent.

If you change the metal or the organic substances, the properties change. For example, if you use a basic substance as the organic substance, you can make MOFs that react with CO₂, which is acidic, and trap it.

These Metal Organic Frameworks can be used to capture CO₂ from fermentation, for example, in the manufacture of beer or wine, and then that CO₂ is packaged and used for food applications, to pressurize beer, to preserve wine... The beauty of these materials is that, in a very small space, you have a large surface area for whatever you want: reactions, catalysis, gas absorption... and this is being applied industrially.