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Nobel Prizes Awarded for MOFs and Macroscopic Quantum Circuits

The selections underscore platform-building research with far‑reaching potential across environmental materials to quantum technology.

Fotos von Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson und Omar M. Yaghi.
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Der Chemie-Nobelpreis geht in diesem Jahr an den Japaner Susumu Kitagawa, den US-Jordanier Omar Yaghi und den in Großbritannien geborenen Richard Robson. Die drei Wissenschaftler werden für die Entwicklung metall-organischer Gerüste geehrt.

Overview

  • The 2025 Chemistry Nobel honors Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for creating metal–organic frameworks, porous materials that can capture gases, store them and enable targeted separations.
  • Committee officials highlighted MOF applications including CO2 capture, hydrogen storage, harvesting water from dry air, PFAS removal from water and catalytic reactions.
  • The 2025 Physics Nobel recognizes John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for demonstrating macroscopic quantum tunneling and quantized energy levels in superconducting circuits.
  • Their hand‑scale Josephson‑junction circuits showed collective electron behavior obeying quantum rules, laying groundwork for superconducting qubits, cryptography and quantum sensors.
  • Each prize carries 11 million Swedish kronor to be shared among laureates, with the Royal Swedish Academy announcing physics on October 7 and chemistry on October 8 ahead of the December 10 ceremony.