Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social , Perry, and Bibhuti @bbrath.bsky.social successfully survived the 24-hour experiments at the BESSY II 14.1 single-crystal beamline 💫💠 They are very excited about the many new structures upcoming!

Bibhuti Bhusan Rath and Kristina Gjorgjevikj were selected to attend this year’s 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Full Article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9000617/2026... @bbrath.bsky.social @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social @lotschgroup.bsky.social

Shout-outs to Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, director of the Nanochemistry department, on being elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! 🥳🥳🥳 Link to the full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/8992608/2026... @leopoldina.org @lotschgroup.bsky.social #Leopoldina

Bettina and our postdocs Xue, Bibhuti, and a PhD student Diego attended the MOF2026 conference in New Orleans🗽 Bettina gave a plenary lecture on redox conductivity and optoionics in molecular frameworks, and Xue, Bibhuti, and Diego presented their work on redox activity and crystallization of COFs

New paper alert🚨✨ Our recent work on redox conductivity in COF reminiscent of insulator-semiconductor switching (modulated by both electrical potential and light) behaviour is now published in JACS.✨ Open access paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Check out our new preprint on ion diffusion and (photo)redox conductivity in a COF by @bbrath.bsky.social and Bettina! doi.org/10.26434/che... We report the first observation of reversible switching from an insulating to semiconducting regime in COF triggered by both electrical potential and light.

Ion Diffusion and (Photo)redox Conductivity in a Covalent Organic Framework

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as promising materials for energy-related applications, where precise control over charge and mass transport is critical, such as in electrocatalysis an...

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Finally for MOFs! Congratulations to the laureates(Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar M. Yaghi). (always knew these three should get the prize together) 🎊 A picture from Ammersee, Munich 2024. (would have been the best to have a picture with all of them together) #NobelPrize #Chemistry #MOFs

I had the opportunity to attend #EuroMOF2025 in Crete 🇬🇷 with @lotschgroup.bsky.social @mpifkf.bsky.social and deliver a talk on our works on optoionic charge storage and redox hopping in COFs. Thanks to the organisers for putting together a great event with fascinating talks/posters.

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

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Just out in Nature Communications! @natcomms.nature.com We dive into the quasiperiodicity of moiré 2D MOFs😉🔬 Grateful to Prof. W.Choe and our team, and to collaborators Prof. S.S. Park and Prof. J.Kim for their contributions. Read the paper here👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62247-2

Isoreticular moiré metal-organic frameworks with quasiperiodicity - Nature Communications

Twisted bilayer metal-organic frameworks produce dodecagonal quasiperiodic moiré patterns with tunable length scales. Here the authors show that isoreticular ligand design enables control over aperiod...

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Look at our first group photo in 2025! We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲 Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!

On the cover of this week's #JACS: "Insights into Decoupled Solar Energy Conversion and Charge Storage in a 2D Covalent Organic Framework for Solar Battery Function" Read it here 🔗 buff.ly/T6wXI4V #ChemSky

✨Press release on our recent work on COF solar battery✨ @lotschgroup.bsky.social @mpifkf.bsky.social www.e-conversion.de/sunlight-in-... #chemsky #energystorage #organic #solarbattery

Sunlight in – power out, long after sunset

Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Rath, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, demonstrates the long-term storage of the stabilized charges in the organic scaffold compounds for use in solar b...

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PhD/Postdoc position in my group is open now 🚀 Are you interested in catalysis within MOFs/COFs? Want a brand-new environment? Apply or ask me anything by June 27, 2025! Repost appreciated 🤝 www.ipoc.uni-stuttgart.de/pcmc/positio...

Very exciting to see our "Retrospective Review on Reticular Materials" online, packing lots of interesting stats to understand how far the field has come, and to envision its even brighter future! #MOFs #COFs privileged to have worked with such a fantastic team 🌟

Retrospective Review on Reticular Materials: Facts and Figures Over the Last 30 Years

To shape the future course of research in reticular materials, this work reflects on the progress over the past 30 years, complemented by input from the community of 228 active researchers through a ....

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✨Our work on optoionic charge storage in COF, where we provide insights into decoupled solar energy conversion and storage is now published in JACS.✨ @lotschgroup.bsky.social @mpifkf.bsky.social Open access paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #solar #energy #battery #COFs