Category: TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE – Mar 3 2026

Omar Yaghi shared chemistry’s 2025 Nobel Prize for helping to invent reticular chemistry, which links molecular-scale building blocks through strong chemical bonds to create materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). 

Plastic and epoxy resins are made from petroleum, in part because the carbon in petroleum creates strong bonds that hold the materials’ long chains of molecules together.

Horse Powertrain has a good thing going. A 2023 spinoff from a partnership between Renault and Chinese EV maker Geely, it has emerged as the world’s third-largest maker of auto engines, supplying Nissan, Volvo, and other companies as hybrid cars’ sales have soared in the past three years.