Chemistry Nobel prize awarded for building ordered polymers with metal

Unlike traditional polymers, this structure allows MOFs to have open internal spaces with a well-defined size, which can allow some molecules to pass through while filtering out others. In addition, the presence of metals provides for interesting chemistry. The metals can serve as catalysts or preferentially bind to one molecule within a mixture.

Knowing what we know now, it all seems kind of obvious that this would work. But when Robson started his work at the University of…