Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Three scientists win award for 'development of metal–organic frameworks'; honoured for 'creating new rules'

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, and Omar M Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, "for the development of metal–organic frameworks. " Announcing the award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the trio received the prize for "creating new rules" in chemistry by designing a novel form of molecular architecture. According to the release, they were awarded for "developing a new form of molecular architecture. In their constructions, metal ions function as cornerstones that are linked by long organic (carbon-based) molecules. Together, the metal ions and molecules are organized to form crystals containing large cavities. These porous materials are called metal-organ