Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on metal–organic frameworks

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who learned how to build stable materials that contain microscopic spaces ideal for absorbing gasses and other substances.

On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this year’s chemistry prize will go to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia and Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.