Three international scientists working on Carbon Capture have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson have a long-lasting experience working on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), which are innovative materials with a diverse range of structures and properties allowing multiple applications such as gas storage and separation, chemical sensors, water harvesting and purification, heterogeneous catalysis, energy storage, and drug delivery. These materials remain key opportunities for CCU as it enables the capture of CO₂, but also of hydrogen and water, the basis compounds for producing CO2-based materials.
Yaghi has worked particularly on Direct Air Capture using covalent organic frameworks (COF) and his, and his team, very promising results were published last year in the journal Nature. It shows the high potential of COF as material for the capture of CO2 from open air as evidenced by its cycling stability, facile uptake of CO2 and low regeneration temperature (60 °C).
We acknowledge the fast research progress and recognition of CCU by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry which will hopefully facilitate the uptake and upscaling of CCU solutions to mitigate climate change and move away from fossil fuel.
