Nobel Prize Honors Carbon Capture Pioneers for MOF Breakthroughs
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📰 The quick summary: Three pioneering chemists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize for their work on metal-organic frameworks, enabling more effective carbon capture technologies to address climate change.
📈 One key stat: Over 100,000 MOF variants have been developed to date, showcasing the remarkable versatility and potential of these materials for environmental applications.
💬 One key quote: “MOFs offer a route to industrial scale CO2 capture that is potentially better, cheaper and safer than existing solvent-based systems,” David Phillips, VP of Corporate Development at Svante, commented.
1️⃣ The big picture: Three revolutionary chemists have received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar Yaghi transformed these crystalline materials from fragile lab curiosities into robust platforms for environmental innovation. Their collective research spanning decades established MOFs as essential tools for carbon capture, water purification, and sustainable industrial chemistry. Today, these microscopic structures with vast internal surface areas are being deployed to tackle some of our most pressing environmental challenges.
2️⃣ Why is this good news: MOFs represent a significant leap forward in our ability to capture and manage carbon emissions from industrial sources. Companies like BASF are already using MOF technology to capture hundreds of tonnes of CO2 annually from industrial emissions. Beyond carbon capture, these versatile materials are proving valuable for water harvesting, even in desert environments, addressing another critical global need. The rational design methods pioneered by these Nobel laureates have created a new toolbox for chemists and engineers, enabling customizable frameworks that can be tailored to specific environmental challenges.
3️⃣ What’s next: Researchers will continue expanding the MOF family, developing new variants with enhanced properties for specific applications. Industrial adoption of MOF technology is expected to accelerate, particularly in carbon capture and storage systems. The related materials like covalent organic frameworks and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks will further broaden the impact of this chemistry revolution.
Read the full story here: Carbon Herald – MOF Researchers Win 2025 Nobel Prize For Carbon Capture Breakthroughs
