New Delhi: Chemists Susuma Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 for their development of ‘metal-organic frameworks’ (MOFs).

MOFs are a new kind of crystalline materials that combine properties of metals and organic compounds for a variety of applications, from harvesting water molecules from dry desert air to separating CO2 from air.

“This year’s (Nobel) prize is about creating new rules for chemistry—with new materials that have unheard of properties,” announced Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Show Full Article

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year has been awarded to scientists who revolutionised the fundamental understanding

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