Three scientists, including a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discoveries leading to a new form of molecular architecture.

Early Wednesday, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced chemistry professor Omar Yaghi received the award, along with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia.

The group is being credited for their work on so-called "metal-organic frameworks", which organize metal ions and molecules to form crystals that contain large cavities. Applications of the frameworks include harvesting water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide, storing toxic gases and catalyzing chemical reactions.

"Metal–organic frameworks have enormou

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