Chemists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the world’s most porous solid materials, known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
Omar Yaghi — the first Jordanian-born Nobel laureate in science — collaborated with Sir Fraser Stoddart (Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, 2016) on MOFs containing cyclodextrin as the organic part. This collaboration resulted in the following joint publications:
- Smaldone, R.A., Forgan, R.S., Furukawa, H., … Yaghi, O.M., Stoddart, J.F. (2010) Metalorganic frameworks from edible natural products. Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 49(46), 8630–8634. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201002343
- Gassensmith, J.J., Furukawa, H., Forgan, R., Botros, Y.S., Yaghi, O.M., Stoddart, J.F. (2011) Strong and Reversible Binding of Carbon Dioxide in a Green Metal–Organic Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 15312- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja206525x