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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar M. Yaghi for their groundbreaking work in the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These flexible, porous crystals can capture and release a wide variety of molecules, including carbon dioxide, hydrogen, acetylene, and water.
Read the announcement: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release
Video credits:
Written and produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Elaine Seward, and Andrew Sobey
Edited by Andrew Sobey
Narrated by Andrew Sobey
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, and Jefferson Beck
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Laureate illustrations by Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
Figures by Johan Jarnestad © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Papers shown:
ACS Central Science: DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00678, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01006 and DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00678; ACS Nano: DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c13712; Chemical Reviews: DOI: 10.1021/cr2003272, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00664 and DOI: 10.1021/cr2003272; Chemistry of Materials: DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03170 and DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01706; Environmental Science & Technology: DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06305; Inorganic Chemistry: DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02557; Journal of the American Chemical Society: DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06393, DOI: 10.1021/ja045123o and DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b00733; Molecular Pharmaceutics: DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00168; and Nano Letters: DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03225
Additional images: Kyoto University, University of Melbourne, and University of California, Berkeley
Sound effects: Soundsnap
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar M. Yaghi for their groundbreaking work in the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These flexible, porous crystals can capture and release a wide variety of molecules, including carbon dioxide, hydrogen, acetylene, and water.
Read the announcement: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release
Video credits:
Written and produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Elaine Seward, and Andrew Sobey
Edited by Andrew Sobey
Narrated by Andrew Sobey
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, and Jefferson Beck
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Laureate illustrations by Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
Figures by Johan Jarnestad © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Papers shown:
ACS Central Science: DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00678, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01006 and DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00678; ACS Nano: DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c13712; Chemical Reviews: DOI: 10.1021/cr2003272, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00664 and DOI: 10.1021/cr2003272; Chemistry of Materials: DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03170 and DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01706; Environmental Science & Technology: DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06305; Inorganic Chemistry: DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02557; Journal of the American Chemical Society: DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06393, DOI: 10.1021/ja045123o and DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b00733; Molecular Pharmaceutics: DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00168; and Nano Letters: DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03225
Additional images: Kyoto University, University of Melbourne, and University of California, Berkeley
Sound effects: Soundsnap
Produced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals, and scientific conferences.
Join the #AmericanChemicalSociety! bit.ly/Join_ACS
#chemistry #nobelprize #crystals #mofs
