Congratulatory Message on Professor Susumu Kitagawa’s Winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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October 9, 2025
We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Susumu Kigatawa on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Kitagawa was awarded this prestigious prize in global recognition of his many years of research and achievements, for which we pay our profound respect.
We started conducting examinations on the application of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which Professor Kitagawa was among the first in the world to discover and develop, in our processes in 2003, and have since been in close contact with the esteemed professor to receive practical advice from him in developing materials through utilization of the unique properties of MOFs.
For six years from 2009, we engaged in the development of high-efficiency gas feedstock utilization technology under a research project led by Professor Kitagawa. In this research project, which was commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan for the “Development of Fundamental Technologies for Green and Sustainable Chemical Processes,”*1 we conducted R&D to commercialize MOFs as a new functional material originated in Japan.
Moreover, since 2022, we have been participating in a joint project, the development of a low-concentration CO2 separation system using an innovative separating agent, that is currently implemented as one of the Green Innovation Fund projects adopted by NEDO for the “Development of Technology for CO2 Separation, Capture, etc.,”*2 and are receiving advice from Professor Kitagawa to develop an innovative CO2 separating agent under this project.
The practical use of this new CO2 separation technology will enable the recovery of low-concentration CO2 from a range of exhaust gases, which is still difficult to do at low cost with existing technologies. We expect that the separation technology, when put into practical use, will make a great contribution to the realization of a carbon-neutral society.
We have thus built a deep relationship with Professor Kitagawa in the R&D field, and we are therefore quite impressed and pleased with his awarding of the Nobel Prize.
We sincerely hope that Professor Kitagawa will continue to guide us in our R&D activities and will impart courage and confidence to the next generation of researchers through his outstanding research achievements.
*1 Research themes of this NEDO-commissioned research project:
- Main theme: Development of Fundamental Technologies for Green and Sustainable Chemical Processes
- Sub-theme: Development of innovative green technologies enabling conversion and diversification of chemical raw materials
- Specific theme thereunder: Development of high-efficiency gas feedstock utilization technology
*2 Research themes of this NEDO-commissioned Green Innovation Fund project
- Main theme: Development of Technology for CO2 Separation, Capture, etc.
- Sub-theme: Development and demonstration of low-cost technology for low-pressure/low-concentration CO2 separation and capture
- Specific theme thereunder: Development of a low-concentration CO2 separation system using an innovative separating agent
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- General Affairs Group, General Affairs & Human Resources Department
Crasus Chemical Inc.
E-mail: CSC_PR@crasus.co.jp