The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi, “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”. The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (around $1,170,000 USD at the time of publishing), which will be shared equally between the winners. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Metal-organic frameworks are a completely new class of material that have extraordinary properties and very exciting potential applications, from cleaning water to trapping carbon dioxide and pollutants in the air .

“Metal-organic frameworks have enormous potential, bringing previously unforeseen opportunities for custom-made materials with new functions,” Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Co

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