Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks, per the AP . Hans Ellegren,.
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks, per the AP. Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the chemistry prize in Stockholm on Wednesday. It was the third prize announced this week. Robson is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, Kitagawa with Japan’s Kyoto University, and Yaghi with the University of California, Berkeley. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry described the „enormous potential“ of metal-organic frameworks, porous structures that „can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions“, per CNN.
