The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2025 is taken by Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry of 2025 It has been granted to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for “the development of metalorganic structures.” A great advance that is mostly thought to be able to extract water from the air in arid environments such as desert or extract water pollutants or capture carbon dioxide. All this thanks to the great cavities through which the molecules can flow.

The material of the 21st century. The new materials that have created the winners so far have been used on a small scale. But the truth is that it has important applications such as in the electronic industry, where it can be used to contain some of the toxic gases that are necessary to produce semiconductors. Although you can also see its arms application to be able to be used as chemical weapons.

But the most striking can undoubtedly be the capacity of capturing carbon dioxide that occurs in industrial and power plants to reduce its carbon footprint and not contribute to the greenhouse effect.

The pools. This year the truth is that a lot of doubts about who could take this Nobel was again again. The roads pointed out that the prize would be taken by the catalysis of a single atom, which is a technique that allows the most efficient and sustainable reactions to be made. And this is something that goes very much of what was expected for this year 2025: being as sustainable as possible in the field of science and mobility.

This means that other advances such as the development of batteries that have less impacts, work the environment or also materials with energy applications have been in the pool for receiving one of the greatest awards in this field.

Chemistry views magazine He also did different surveys To know what the scientific community thinks about the award. In this case, most pointed out that the field of biochemistry would be the award -winning this year and there was a rivalry with each other, it would be European or American. Although where almost all coincided (89%) is that it would be a man the graceful.

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This award has been distributed on 116 occasions in which it has fallen to 194 people. As curiosities, it should be noted that the youngest award to date has been Frédéric Joliot with 35 years. But at the other extremes we have John B. Goodenaugh, with 97 years, who was awarded in 2019.

The problem we have in this case is that there are very few women who have received this award, being Marie Curie the first to do so in 1911 (which also won the Physics in 1903).

It should also be noted that with this recognition the stage of awards for disciplines in Health Sciences closes. Now there is only the turn for literature tomorrow and on Friday the Peace Prize. In addition to these, on Monday the Prize for Economic Sciences will be announced again, which was not established by Alfred Nobel.

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