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The tiny molecules tackling the planet’s biggest challenges

The tiny molecules tackling the planet’s biggest challenges

Update: 2025-08-28
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In this episode, we’re joined by Professor Omar Yaghi – a pioneer of materials chemistry whose inventions are shaping the future of clean energy, clean air, and even clean water. He’s best known for creating metal–organic frameworks, or MOFs, and covalent organic frameworks, COFs – ultra-porous materials that can capture carbon, store hydrogen, and even pull drinking water out of desert air. His work has opened up an entirely new field of chemistry, and his breakthroughs are now being developed into technologies that could help us tackle some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

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The tiny molecules tackling the planet’s biggest challenges

The tiny molecules tackling the planet’s biggest challenges

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