Our researchers associated with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Prof. Kitagawa, Prof. Yaghi and Prof. Robson!

Mathieu Prévot, Mickaele Bonneau, Aude Demessence and David Farrusseng contributed to the work that was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

During his postdoctoral research in Professor Omar Yaghi’s laboratory (UC Berkeley), Mathieu Prévot designed the first prototype for active atmospheric water harvesting assisted by adsorbents in arid environments. This solar device, containing 1 kg of MOF-303, operated continuously for three days in the Mojave Desert and collected more than one litre of pure water from dry air.

Aude Demessence has been collaborating with Prof. Susumu Kitagawa’s team (Kyoto University) for over ten years, notably thanks to a JSPS grant in 2014. Her research focuses on amorphous or phase-change MOFs with low dimensionality.

Mickaele Bonneau worked alongside Prof. Kitagawa for five years. She explored flexible MOFs with variable porosity, developing new materials with exceptional performance for the safe storage of acetylene, an explosive gas.

David Farrusseng heads the International Research Programme (IRP/CNRS), which brings together our laboratory and Prof. Kitagawa’s team. His work focuses on the most innovative applications of MOFs in gas separation and catalysis, particularly the photoreduction of CO₂.

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