Article 70KQG Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

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Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.

Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about 871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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