The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi and Richard Robson “for the development of metal-organic frameworks."
Professor Lars Öhrström from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, has been active in the field for 30 years, and is well acquainted with two of this year’s laureates. He is happy to comment on the prize, the research, and its significance.
Prof. Öhrström is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He has studied the awarded field — metal-organic frameworks — for decades and is frequently invited as an international expert.
He also authored the first textbook on metal-organic frameworks.
