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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Next-Gen Smart Sorbents

  The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers Susumu Kitagawa (Japan), Richard Robson (Australia), and Omar M. Yaghi (USA) for the development of metal-organic frameworks that can be used for gas sorption and separation, as well as to collect water from desert air, detect toxic gases, accelerate chemical reactions, and even process data. We asked Valentin Milichko, a leading researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, how this technology works and how it’s already used in practice.

  08.10.2025