Matt Hartings

Listen. It's quite obvious I'm running some sort of racket here. There is just no way I should be associated with these incredible chemists!! 😂

Isnt this the same dude who is voting illegally as a PA resident?

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez giving a lecture to the chemistry and biochemistry majors at American University

Got to listen to a great talk from @everywherechem.bsky.social today at AU

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

Sorry, Shawn. But it's MOF and not MIF. Clearly an organic award </sarcasm>

Speaking of which ... zeolites have MOFs beat by a long-shot in terms of applications and probably should have won a Nobel years ago.

Imagine that all you needed for a building was brick and mortar, you mixed them together, and they assemble themselves into enormous buildings with rooms and hallways. It is really very whimsical when it comes right down to it, regardless of any application.

MOFs are great for a lot of reasons. But the basic chemistry drive of it all ... How do we build really cool and unique shapes and structures with these tiny building blocks? MOFs and zeolites are such great examples of molecular architecture (in the literal sense of that word).

Hahahaha

Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit:

cen.acs.org/topics/mater...

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

Cover of the journal Nature Chemistry with the cover line "Every MOF you make"

If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.

A Chemistry Nobel for the invention of MOFs! Here’s a great article on what these materials are and why they’re now being used to eg harvest water and suck up carbon dioxide. Congrats to Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi! #ChemNobel
By @kms163.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well my jr/sr lab students (who are all working on MOFs this semester) will all be very thrilled.
Although, they had a paper due last night. This news could have filled some space in what they needed to write.

A picture showing timeline convergence and two Brits cheering "It's MOFs" at the Nobel announcement

Well done @neilwithers.bsky.social and @stuartcantrill.com

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

Yikes 😬

Awesome!!

Me. Naturally.

Also ... A great day for DMV folks to subscribe to @bannermoco.bsky.social / @thebaltimorebanner.com or @51st.news or both!!

Next up at WaPo:
As more and more people own private jets, does it make sense to continue using tax dollars to pay for paving roads?

I find I have to do this myself ALL THE TIME. If I need to read the literature for a study I'm working on. Or if I just want to sit and enjoy a book for a bit. I need to reorganize myself first. And it's never as easy as I think it should be.

Just started @scalzi.com's 'When the Moon Hits Your Eye' and chuckling to myself thinking about how other, normal, non-Ohio people reading it are pronouncing 'Bellefontaine.'

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See also Joey's thread about what this "deal" means for the schools that *don't* take it.

Came by just to see this gif

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Fascinating chemistry! non-polar molecules chilling out inside the crystals formed by a very polar molecule.
Also ... Morgan - @starsarecalling.bsky.social - is the best!

Lol ... If you are an edge case, then they can come up with the resources to specifically help you (and not everyone else).

Open air 3 kV sources don't have little zappy lightning sparks coming out of them ... until you touch them. Ask me how I know.