Susum Kitagawa scientists, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Chemistry Award for 2025. year ‘for the development of metal-organic networks’, a body assigned to award on Wednesday.
More than a century old award is awarded from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the winners share 11 million Swedish crowns (about 1.2 million US dollars), as well as the glory of winners are probably the most prestigious scientific awards in the world.
– They found ways to create completely new materials, with great cavities in their interior that can be viewed almost as rooms in the hotel ‘Guestrooms’, said Heiner Linka, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for the Chemistry, at the press conference.
Three Laureata worked on creating molecular structures with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can pass, which can be used to collect water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide and storage toxic gases.
The Nobel Award for Chemistry is the third award published this year, in accordance with the tradition, after those for medicine and physics published earlier this week.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
