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Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi was featured in a special interview on Al <\/strong>Arabiya English (<\/strong>watch, runtime: 15:49<\/a><\/strong>) on Tuesday<\/strong>. Chemist Yaghi received last Wednesday<\/a> a Nobel Prize in the sciences, after being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Japan\u2019s Susumu Kitagawa and Australia\u2019s Richard Robson for pioneering metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) \u2014 materials that can trap, store, and release gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen.<\/p>\n

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Yaghi explained his revolutionary approach to MOFs by comparing it to building with <\/strong>Legos<\/strong>.<\/strong> His model was to \u201ctake molecules like building blocks and put them together to make different forms... Once you build materials, and in this case, we have basically opened a gold mine where any molecule could be stitched together to make a new material,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Yaghi unveiled ambitions to create \u201c<\/strong>MOFs<\/strong> that operate like DNA<\/strong>, meaning that they have sequences of information that code for very specific properties.\u201d With the rapid development of AI tools, \u201cwe have preliminary results that show that we can speed up the discovery of new materials\u202650-fold faster than what we have been doing,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

The Jordan-born scientist urged the Saudi youth to seize the Kingdom\u2019s investments in <\/strong>education<\/strong>, take risks, and innovate, saying that \u201cexperiment is paramount to discovery.\u201d He also extended gratitude to King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology for their \"scientific collaboration over the last many years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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