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7985823 No.7985823 [Reply] [Original]

what will the next big breakthrough in chemistry be?

>> No.7985828

MOFs

synthetic catalysts with enzyme-level specificity and reactivity

large scale production of nanomachinery

turning lead into gold

>> No.7985844
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>>7985828
>he fell for the nanomachines meme

>> No.7985883
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>>7985844
MOFs offer a pretty good way to organize molecular machines spatially. While we probably won't get metal gear solid 'nanomachines' we will get useful devices that have nanoscale moving parts.

I started the MOFs nanomachines meme here on /sci/. I am glad it is spreading.

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>>7985883
Here's what useful looks like. A MOF that absorbs and desorbs CO2 in response to light

>> No.7986005

>>7985823
Making gold out of lead.

>> No.7986313

>>7985883
>>7985885
these make my dick so fucking hard

>> No.7986344

>>7985828
so do you think a phd in organic/organometallics would be valuable when these start to take off?

>> No.7986393

>>7985883
dude, I started that meme you retard

>> No.7986660

>>7986393
Do happen to work on 'mechanical MOFs' by any chance?

>> No.7986673

>>7986005
>>7985828
Can't we already turn lead into gold? It just costs fuck load to do.

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7986820

>>7985828
What can MOFs do that proteins can't?

>> No.7986824

The cure for baldness.

>> No.7986954

>>7986820
Be manufactured easily I imagine.

>> No.7986963

>>7986820
Not denature.

>> No.7987108

>>7986820
be synthesized.

>> No.7987117

>>7987108
technically we could synthesize enzymes, we just need to get the correct folding conditions...

or we find a way to engineer bacteria to manufacture special enzymes for us.

>> No.7987151

A way to produce helium

>> No.7987176
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>>7986820
They're easier to design.

We could potentially use an epitaxy type process to make 3 dimensional atomically precise structures with them.

>> No.7987204

>>7987117
Be realstic, not happen.

>> No.7987240

>>7986954
Easier than having a vat full of cells overexpress a protein?
>>7986963
Protein stability can be modified.
>>7987176
Valid point.

>> No.7987245

>>7987204
i think we aren't too far off tbqh

>> No.7987249

Understanding how OP s still consciously posting despite not showing any brain activity