Nobel Prize in Chemistry 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.