Trio win Nobel 磁力链接Prize in Chemistry for developing metal-organic frameworks

"The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow," the academy said in a statement.

It added that these constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions.

Kitagawa is a professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Robson, born in Britain, works at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Yaghi, born in Amman, Jordan, is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.

"MOFs hav磁力链接e enormous potential, bringing previously unforeseen opportunities for custom-made materials with new functions," said Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.