♦ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025 has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi.

♦ They have developed a new form of molecular architecture.

♦ In their constructions, metal ions function as cornerstones that are linked by long organic (carbon-based) molecules.

♦ Together, the metal ions and molecules are organised to form crystals that contain large cavities.

♦ Kitagawa is a professor at Kyoto University, Japan.

♦ Richard Robson is currently working as a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

♦ Yaghi is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, US.

♦ The prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor will be shared equally between the laureates.

♦ In 2024, the Nobel Prize for chemistry went to David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, for work on cracking the code of the structure of proteins through computing and artificial intelligence.