Our comment on the 2025 Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson,
and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks” (MOFs). Due too the fact that our lab does research on this topic for several years, Prof. Janusz Lewiński was asked by the Polish Press Agency to comment on the importance of the awarded discoveries.

Read more at the Science in Poland portal of the Polish Press Agency (in Polish):
1. Nobel z chemii za „dziurawe kryształy” z wielkim potencjałem zastosowań,
2. Prof. Lewiński: pora na polski program badań cząstek opisywanych przez noblistów.

 

Figure 1.

The Nobel Prize Committee and Prof. Lewiński demonstrating sorption properties of different classes of porous materials
(Credit: Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP – left, Grzegorz Krzyżewski, IChF PAN – right)