Nobel Prize 2025: Can Chemistry Build Houses for Molecules?

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honours Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi for creating metal–organic frameworks — porous molecular structures that can trap gases, purify water, and capture carbon, revolutionising material science.

When scientists talk about creating “rooms” for molecules, it sounds like science fiction. But that is precisely what the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates. Three chemists, Susumu Kitagawa of Japan, Richard Robson of Australia, and Omar Yaghi of the United States, have developed molecular frameworks so spacious that gases and liquids can flow through them like guests moving through the rooms of a building.

Their creation, called metal–organic frameworks, or MOFs, represents a comp