
Nobel-winning little ‘spongy crystals’ with a surprising amount of interior space
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on October 8, 2025 for the development of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFwhich are tunable crystalline structures with extremely high porosity. These are a class of materials that have truly changed the way scientists design and think about matter, inspiring…