The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2025 was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar Yaghi for the development of Metal Organic Frameworks. Metal Organic Frameworks are diverse chemical scaffolds with applications in selective gas and pollutant capture, water harvesting, catalysis, drug delivery and also in the remediation of nuclear waste. The contributions of this year's winners to the development of these materials and their myriad applications today will be the subject of this talk.

Dr Raghu Ganesh is a materials chemist who works on the development of thermally robust inorganic composites and their application in heterogeneous catalysis. He completed his PhD from Iowa State University, where he synthesized and evaluated encapsulated nanomaterials (including Metal Organic Frameworks as encapsulating scaffolds) for catalysis. Following his time at Iowa State, he held research positions at Breathe Applied Sciences Pvt Ltd, and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). At both institutions, he focused on the direct and indirect utilization of carbon dioxide as a feedstock for the synthesis of value-added fuels such as methanol and ethanol.