Watch Professor Richard Robson’s 2025 Nobel Prize Lecture in Chemistry

Professor Richard Robson has delivered his 2025 Nobel Prize Lecture in Chemistry at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

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Awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the design and synthesis of coordination polymers – the molecular architecture that underpins what are now widely known as metal-organic frameworks – Professor Robson’s work has reshaped modern materials science and inspired a global research field.

In his lecture, Design and construction of targeted extended structures using pre-organised building blocks, Professor Robson outlined how he and his team created a new class of molecular materials in the 1990s, laying the foundation for an entirely new area of chemistry that continues to influence research and industry applications worldwide.

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Following Professor Robson’s lecture, Professor Susumu Kitagawa presented The usefulness of the useless — How MOFs transformed the concept of porous matter, and Professor Omar M. Yaghi delivered Metal-organic frameworks – From molecules to society.

Watch all three lectures below.

Professor Robson will receive his Nobel medal from the King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Thursday 11 December at 2am AEST. Watch it live, here.