Molecular discovery wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
發佈日期: 2025-10-08 23:31
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Scientists based in Japan, the US and Australia are the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on molecular architecture, which they hope could pave the way for, literally, making things out of thin air.
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi were unveiled as the latest prize winners.
The trio, working independently, have found a way to combine metal ions and organic molecules into structures through which liquids and gases could flow.
Kitagawa spoke to the Nobel Committee on the phone saying he was "honoured" to win and his dream is to capture and separate air and turn it into water.
Nobel Committee member for Chemistry, Andrei Chabis explains their pioneering work:
"You can compare it with beams and posts in the framework, in a house.
"So if you don't know how to put together beams and posts, you will not make a house, you will not make rooms. So they actually created, out of those organic molecules, they created houses with hallways and rooms, and those hallways in rooms can be used for filling them with gasses or volatile molecules and separate them and concentrate them. So it's a totally new area of chemistry."
