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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honoured metal-organic frameworks — crystals so full of tiny pores that a spoonful can hold the surface area of a football field, enough to pull drinking water straight from desert air.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)

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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi were recognised for building MOFs, lattices of metal nodes linked by carbon struts that leave vast open space inside. Because that space can trap chosen molecules, MOFs are being developed to harvest water in deserts, capture carbon dioxide, and store gases — architecture at the scale of atoms.

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2025 Nobel Kimya Ödülü, metal-organik çerçevelere verildi — o kadar çok minik gözenekle dolu kristaller ki bir kaşık dolusu, bir futbol sahasının yüzey alanını barındırabilir; çöl havasından doğrudan içme suyu çekmeye yetecek kadar.
2025 Nobel Kimya Ödülü

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson ve Omar Yaghi, içeride geniş boşluk bırakan, karbon çubuklarla bağlanmış metal düğümlerden örülü kafesler olan MOF'ları kurdukları için ödüllendirildi. Bu boşluk seçilmiş molekülleri tutabildiğinden, MOF'lar çöllerde su toplamak, karbondioksit yakalamak ve gaz depolamak için geliştiriliyor — atom ölçeğinde mimari.

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