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Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’

  • Written by Jie Huang, Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH.Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation...

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