The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal-organic frameworks."
"The winners developed a new type of molecular architecture. The structures they created, metal-organic frameworks, contain large cavities through which molecules can flow in and out. The researchers used them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide, and store hydrogen," reads a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi have thus developed a new form of molecular architecture with "enormous potential , leading to new and previously unknown opportunities", says Heiner Linke, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
The discovery has paved the way for the creation of new porous materials that could play a crucial role in addressing many current challenges, such as combating desertification or decarbonization.
(Unioneonline)
