Stockholm: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their trailblazing invention of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) — a transformative discovery that has redefined modern chemistry and opened new frontiers in sustainable science.
Announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the award recognizes the trio’s groundbreaking research that enables the creation of advanced materials capable of harvesting water from desert air, purifying polluted water, and capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
MOFs, porous crystalline materials made of metal ions connected by organic linkers, have become one of the most promising innovations in the fight against climate change and environmental degradation, offering enormous potential for clean energy storage, carbon capture, and green manufacturing.
The announcement was made by Hans Ellegren, Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who hailed the discovery as “a leap forward in our understanding of matter and its infinite possibilities.”
This comes just a day after the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michael H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their revolutionary work on macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits — research that has laid the foundation for the next generation of quantum technologies.
