The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it will award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa and British scientist RichardRobsonJordanian-born scientist Omar M. Aji, in recognition of their ¡°contribution to the development of metal organic frame materials.¡±

The jury believes that the winner has developed a new molecular structure. The structures they created-metal-organic frameworks, contain large cavities into which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers use them to collect water from desert air, extract pollutants from the water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen.

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"Metal-organic frameworks have enormous potential, opening up previously unforeseen opportunities for tailoring materials with new functionality," said Heiner Link, chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee in Chemistry.

In 1989, according to the official website of the Nobel Prize, Richard Robson attempted a new way to exploit the inherent properties of atoms. He would combine the copper ions with positive electricity with a four-arm molecule; each arm end of this molecule had a chemical cluster that could attract the copper ions. When they were combined, they concentrated into an orderly, empty crystal, like a diamond filled with countless holes.

Robson immediately realized the potential of the molecular structure he had constructed, but it was unstable and prone to collapse. However, Kitagawa Shinwaby OmarM. Agi further laid a solid foundation for this method of construction, and between 1992 and 2003 they made a series of revolutionary discoveries each. N. Agi demonstrated that gas can flow into and out of this structure, and predicted that the metal organic framework can flexibility. Agi created a very stable metal organic framework and demonstrated that it can be modified by reasonable design to give it a brand new and ideal performance.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces winners

Following the breakthrough discoveries of the above-mentioned winners, chemists have built tens of thousands of different organic frameworks for metals, some of which may help address some of the major challenges facing humans, and their applications include separating all-fluoride and polyfluoride-based substances from water, decomposing trace drugs in the environment, capturing carbon dioxide, or obtaining water from desert air.

The 74-year-old Shinzo Kitagawa is currently the vice president of the Institute for Advanced Study at Kyoto University. Shinzo Kitagawa is engaged in research on porous coordination polymers (PCPs) and metal-organic structures (MOFs). In 1997, the coordination polymer structure was discovered to have gas adsorption properties.

Richard Robson, 88, is known as a "pioneer in crystal engineering involving transition metals." He has been awarded an academician of the Australia Academy of Sciences and was elected an academician of the Royal Society.

Omar M. Yaji's experience is very legendary. Born in Amman, Jordan in 1965 to a refugee family from Palestine, Yaghi lived in a room with eight brothers and sisters in the family when he was a child. The other half of the room had to be used by livestock and there was no public facilities, running water or electricity.

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When Yagi was 15 years old, he moved to the United States with the encouragement of his father. Without understanding English, he relied on hard work to obtain a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at the age of 20. After receiving his doctorate at the age of 35, he has made great progress in the field of chemical scientific research and won many awards. Yaghi is currently a university professor with the highest academic title at the University of California, Berkeley, and a current member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, the King of Saudi Arabia issued a royal decree granting Yadji Saudi citizenship.

At the time of Aghiel, the municipal water supply usually only comes once every week or two, each lasting only 6 hours, during which time the home must be filled with water storage tanks, One of his main tasks as a child was to reserve as much water as possible for the home when it was water supplied. Today, when he discovered the organic frame materials that could be used to collect water,And the feasibility of collecting water from air, especially desert air, he was excited. He clearly foresees that this technology is expected to solve one of today's most pressing social problems.

Source: Red Star News