Nobel Prize Awarded for Metal‑Organic Frameworks

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, the Nobel Committee said Wednesday, honoring their work on metal‑organic frameworks (MOFs) — tunable molecular constructions with applications including harvesting water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide, storing toxic gases and catalyzing chemical reactions. The committee chair Heiner Linke praised MOFs for enabling custom‑made materials with new functions, signaling wide research and commercial interest in the technology.