Susumu Kitagawa of Japan's Kyoto University shares Nobel Prize in chemistry

Developer of metal-organic frameworks has 'dream' to use material to 'capture air'

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Susumu Kitagawa, a professor at Kyoto University, speaks at a press conference in the city after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Photo by Arisa Moriyama) 

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- The Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2025 has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, and two other scientists for the development of a new form of molecular architecture, called metal-organic frameworks (MOF), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Wednesday.

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