The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”
The laureates developed a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created are metal-organic frameworks, which contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen.
The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions.
Through the development of metal-organic frameworks, the laureates have provided chemists with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges we face.
