11 Oct 2025 4:08 am AEDT

Former U-M Researcher Awarded 2025 Nobel Prize In Chemistry

University of Michigan

Pictured is a representation of an MOF molecule. A cube is pictured composed of smaller cubes, resembling a roofless house. Cartoon figures of material that could be adsorbed by the MOF molecule are pictured in rooms of the house, with one cartoon molecule entering the door. Adsorption is the process by which molecules adhere to the surface of a solid. — The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part to Omar M. Yaghi, a University of California, Berkeley, professor who developed some of the foundational work for the research as a faculty member in the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry. He helped build a very stable version of a metal-organic framework molecule, a crystalline molecule with large, open structures that could be integral in solving some of humankind's greatest challenges, with applications that include separating PFAS from water, breaking down traces of pharmaceuticals in the environment, capturing carbon dioxide or harvesting water from desert air, according to the Nobel release. Image credit: ©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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