Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recognizes Three Experts for Groundbreaking Work on MOF Structures
The prestigious award in Chemistry is given to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their influential contributions on metal-organic frameworks.
Their investigations could be applied to address numerous significant worldwide challenges, such as CO2 capture to address climate change or reducing plastic waste through sophisticated chemical processes.
âI feel tremendously honored and overjoyed, many thanks,â remarked Prof. Kitagawa via a call with the media event after receiving the decision.
âHow long do I have to stay here? Because I have to go out for a meeting,â he continued.
The 3 winners are splitting prize money of SEK 11 million (about ÂŁ872k).
Molecular Architecture on a Core of the Achievement
Their researchers' studies focuses on how molecular units are built together into elaborate frameworks. The selection panel described it as âstructural molecular engineeringâ.
The scientists devised methods to construct assemblies with considerable voids amid the molecules, permitting gases and other chemicals to flow via them.
These materials are known as metal-organic materials.
This declaration was delivered by the Swedish scientific body during a media briefing in Stockholm.
Professor Kitagawa works at Kyoto University in the Asian nation, Prof. Robson is at the Melbourne University in Australia, and Prof. Yaghi is at the California University in the US.
Previous Award Winners in Science Categories
Last year, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker were granted the prize for their studies on protein structures, which are critical elements of living organisms.
It is the third scientific prize given recently. Earlier this week, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics that enabled the creation of the quantum computer.
On Monday, 3 experts' studies on how the biological immunity combats pathogens won them the honor for medicine.
One winner, Dr Fred Ramsdell, did not receive the news for nearly a day because he was on an disconnected hiking trip.
