AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST WINS SCIENCE'S HIGHEST HONOUR

* University of Melbourne chemistry professor Richard Robson has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

* He shares the accolade with Professor Susumu Kitagawa from Kyoto University and Professor Omar M Yaghi from the University of California

* At 88 years old, Prof Robson is the ninth-oldest Nobel Prize winner

THE METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK CONCEPT

* Prof Robson designed new molecular materials with pores containing chemicals that store, capture and release other molecules

* They can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide or store toxic gases

* Concept likened to a porous material roughly the size of a sugar cube that could contain as much surface area as a large football pitch

* A small amount of su

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