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Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal–organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.
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  1. Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Miryam Naddaf

Three scientists who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Nature 646, 522-523 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03195-1

Additional reporting by Katie Kavanagh.

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