Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

"The Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery. Susumu Kitagawa, at Kyoto University, Richard Robson, at the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, at the University of California, Berkeley, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about 871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm."

"The Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery."

"The trio were honoured for the development of metal-organic frameworks."

Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne), and Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, receiving 11m Swedish kronor (about 871,400). The award recognizes the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), crystalline porous materials constructed from metal nodes and organic linkers. MOFs provide exceptionally high surface areas and tunable pore sizes, enabling efficient gas storage and separation, catalysis, sensing, and targeted drug delivery. MOFs have advanced technologies for hydrogen and methane storage, carbon capture, and the design of materials for controlled release, filtration, and chemical transformation.

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