This year’s Nobel chemistry prize co-winner, Susumu Kitagawa, said Sunday that long-term support is vital for scientists to work on basic research.
“It takes 25 years for research results to be implemented in society, so long-term support is necessary,” Kitagawa said at a press conference in Stockholm ahead of the award ceremony on Wednesday.
“I have advised the government many times to increase support for more basic research,” he said.
The 74-year-old professor at Kyoto University won the Nobel prize for developing metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, networks of metal ions and organic molecules that can capture and release gases. Experts expect MOFs to help solve energy and environmental issues.
Omar Yaghi, one of Kitagawa’s co-winners, said MOFs are suitable for gas adsorption and separation and can separate carbon dioxide from air or extract drinking water.
Kyodo
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