Metal-organic framework compounds: what potential did the Nobel Committee see in them?
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
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https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.12.031Keywords:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar M. Yaghi, metal-organic frameworks.Abstract
This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists — Japanese professor Susumu Kitagawa from the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University, British researcher Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne, and American chemist Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley — "for the development of metal-organic frameworks”. As noted in the Nobel Committee’s press release, the researchers have used the metal-organic frameworks they created to solve many pressing problems for humanity: harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen, etc.
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Kolotilov S.V. Metal-organic framework compounds: what potential did the Nobel Committee see in them? (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025). Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2025. (12): 31—44. https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.12.031
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