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Susumu Kitagawa's work, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi can be used to collect desert air water.
Posted on October 8, 2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for their work in the development of organometallic structures.
The three scientists, who won the award on Wednesday,
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The three have created “molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemical substances can flow,” reads a statement from the Nobel Prize. These constructions can be used to collect water from the desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyze chemical reactions, he added.
“Metal-organic structures have enormous potential and provide previously unforeseen opportunities for material made with new functions,” said Heiner Linke, president of the Nobel Chemistry Committee.
The 2024 prize was awarded to David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, computer scientists from Google Deepmind, a British-American research laboratory in artificial intelligence (AI) based in London.
The three were awarded to discover powerful techniques to decode and design new proteins, the basic components of life. His work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and can potentially transform the way new medications and other materials are manufactured.
