Inside the cavernous crystals that won the Chem Nobel

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Oct. 8 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on metal organic frameworks (MOFs). Senior editor Prachi Patel joins a bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry to discuss what MOFs are, why they are so useful, and how they were discovered.  Check out Prachi's story on how MOFs won this year's prize at cenm.ag/chemnobel2025. Listen to our 2018 Stereo Chemistry episode on MOFs here: http://cenm.ag/moftalk Subscribe to Inflection Point now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Executive producer: David Anderson Host: Gina Vitale Reporter: Prachi Patel Audio editor: Jeremy Barr Music: Shutterstock Episode artwork: Lingmei Liu et al. Episode artwork source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-020-00361-6