2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize Honors Innovators in Metal-Organic Frameworks

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their work on metal-organic frameworks.

The three scientists' work could be used to tackle some of the biggest problems on our planet, including capturing carbon dioxide that could help tackle climate change or reducing plastic pollution using chemistry.

I'm deeply honoured and delighted, thank you very much, said Professor Kitagawa on the phone to the news conference after he was told the news.

The three winners will share prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (£872,000). The Nobel committee referred to their contributions as 'molecular architecture' which involves creating structures where large spaces exist between molecules to allow gases and chemicals to flow through.

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Kitagawa works at Kyoto University in Japan, Professor Richard Robson is at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor Omar M. Yaghi is at the University of California, US.

This recognition continues a week of groundbreaking achievements in scientific fields, following the Nobel Prizes awarded in Physics and Medicine.