'Harry Potter' materials land three scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry

Three scientists who developed materials that are like something out of "Harry Potter" have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia and Omar M. Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, won the prestigious prize "for the development of metal-organic frameworks."
The frameworks included new materials that store large amounts of gas in a tiny volume, "almost like Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter," Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said in a news conference announcing the prize.