2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks

The creators of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. The Nobel committee noted that their work in this area had provided chemists with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges we face, with researchers now using them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water and capture carbon dioxide.

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry was split equally between Susumu Kitagawa, at Kyoto University in Japan, Richard Robson, at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Omar Yaghi, at the University of California, Berkeley in the US, ‘for the development of metal–organic frameworks’.