Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal-organic frameworks," the award-giving body said from Stockholm on Wednesday.

The new Nobel laureates "have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow," the Royal Academy of Science said.

"These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee added in a statement.

The developments grew over a period of several years, the commitee said, beginning with Robson in 1989 and including the contributions of Kitagawa and Yaghi between 1992 and 2003.

Kitagawa, 74, is a professor at Kyoto Univ

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