The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded!

We are pleased to share the news from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded! The Nobel Committee has honored Professors Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the creation and development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) – a new class of crystalline materials that has opened entirely new possibilities in materials chemistry and technology.

MOFs are remarkable porous structures built from metal ions and organic linkers, resembling three-dimensional networks with an enormous internal surface area. Just one gram of such a material can have a surface area equivalent to several football fields! Thanks to this property, MOFs can absorb and store gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, purify water and air, and even act as catalysts for chemical reactions.

Their potential applications are vast – from environmental protection to modern energy technologies and medicine.

We are proud to add that research on these types of materials is also being conducted at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdańsk, within the Department of Environmental Technology. Examples include studies on the use of these materials to convert carbon dioxide into useful fuels or to break down polymers such as PET from bottles into valuable chemical compounds.

This is proof that in Gdańsk – and in Poland – we are also creating the chemistry of the future: inspiring, useful, and now, Nobel-worthy.