Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to trio for work on metal organic frameworks

  • Gas
  • October 8, 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on metal organic frameworks (MOFs).

The three winners will share prize money of SK11m (£872,000).

The laureates developed MOFs, a new type of molecular architecture which contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out.

The prize was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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