A trio of scientists has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of "metal-organic frameworks," a new form of molecular architecture likened to something from the Harry Potter novels.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi will share the prize for providing chemists "with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges" the field faces, the Nobel Committee announced Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Advertisement

Announcing the prize, Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said the laureates had found ways to make completely new materials "with large cavities" inside that function "like rooms in a hotel, so that guest molecules can enter and exit again from the same material."

He said the chemistry functions like He

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