Stockholm: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa of Japan, Richard Robson of Australia, and Omar M. Yaghi of the United States for their pioneering work on metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, materials that hold great promise for capturing carbon dioxide, purifying air, storing gases, and collecting water from dry air.

Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences described MOFs as molecular architectures with spacious internal rooms capable of hosting and releasing various gases and molecules. The innovation lies in their design, which combines metal ions with organic linkers to create crystal-like structures filled with microscopic cavities. These intricate frameworks can be engineered to trap specific molecules, offering remar

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