Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
Published on October 13, 2025
On Wednesday, 8 October 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”
From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
“The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have 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.”
Read more about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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