Nobel chemistry prize awarded for crystal materials that could revolutionize green technology

Image credit: © Johan Jarnestad / The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Article by John Griffin. The Conversation – October 8, 2025.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry for discovering a new form of molecular architecture: crystals that contain large cavities. Susumu Kitagawa from Kyoto University, Japan, Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, will share a prize sum of 11 million Swedish kronor (£870,000). […]

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