Excited to be part of this panel at Comic Con! @jamesjawa.bsky.social @eblancosuarez.bsky.social

Congratulations to Prof. Minjung Kang, former postdoc from the Cohen laboratory, on her recent paper on self-assembled MOF monolayers. Thanks also to the laboratory of Prof. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Brandeis U.) for their terrific collaboration. pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/d...

As an elected Nominations and Leadership Development Chair for AAAS Section Chemistry (C) I am working to support the AAAS mission to advance science and serve society! @aaas.org

Check out our subject-specific collections of our most popular Chemical Science content published in 2025! These collections highlight some of the exceptional research published in Chemical Science and they are free to read. Read our blog post: blogs.rsc.org/sc/ #ChemSky #ChemSciMostPopular

🎉 Thanks to all the authors who celebrated our 15th anniversary year with us by publishing in our Community collection, featuring work by our frequent authors, reviewers, and Board members past and present! Read this collection of papers celebrating our journal community: rsc.li/chemsci-commu...

Congratulations to former visiting student Mingyu Gu (South Korea) for his first-author paper in JACS! We enjoyed hosting him, and it is wonderful to see our international cooperation and collaboration resulting in great science! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Congrats to several members of our lab, including lead author Dr. Rajashree Newar, on our latest study on low-valent MOFs (LVMOFs). These LVMOFs have polynuclear SBUs much like conventional MOFs. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to former group member Alysia Kohlbrand on getting her last paper published from her thesis! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As we start 2026, the laboratory is excited to welcome Samuel Chackerian, Marco Hansel, and Carlson Cao as the newest members of the Cohen laboratory!

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in synthetic polymer chemistry (cohenlab.ucsd.edu). See our publication in Angewandte Chemie (lnkd.in/eiSZkUbJ). Candidates must have a strong track record in synthetic polymer chemistry and should email their materials directly to Prof. Cohen.

Nice to see former Cohen laboratory members meeting up in Vietnam! Thanks to Prof. Min Kim for sharing this photo with other former postdocs Prof. Teng-Hao Chen and Prof. Jin Yeong Kim.

Thanks to Profs. Daniel Maspoch, Jorge A. R. Navarro, and Omar M. Yaghi for the wonderful invitation to Granada, Spain to have a vibrant and candid discussion about the future of Reticular Chemistry. Truly enjoyed the meeting and I hope all those headed to EuroMOF2025 have a wonderful time!

Thanks to Prof. Elżbieta Gumienna-Kontecka and all my incredible hosts and colleagues for the XV International Symposium on Inorganic Biochemistry in Wroclaw, Poland. It was a wonderful conference and I truly enjoyed my first visit to Poland.

Risks of ending US science-policy training | Science www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Risks of ending US science-policy training

Training scientists to engage with policy-makers and pursue careers in public service is among the most effective ways to turn research strength into real-world impact. However, in February, the Trump...

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Overdue post on our group summer party! Was great to hang out together in the SoCal sunshine and share some good food and drinks.

Exciting new opportunity for those in the field! cen.acs.org/materials/At...

Atoco launches Reticular Science Prize

The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the science, engineering, computing, and artificial intelligence of modular molecular materials

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It is with great thanks, pride, and a touch of sadness, we say goodbye to Dr. Minjung Kang. She has been a fantastic postdoc and is headed back to her native Korea to begin a faculty position at Korea National University of Education. We wish her the best of luck in her independent career!

Excited to share our first publication on metal-organic soft materials. Specifically, a new type of metal-binding polymer that shows changes in physical characteristics without extensive polymer crosslinking. Thanks to Dr. Mingshi Zhang for his efforts! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Controlling the Mechanical Response of Polymers via Metal Induced Coordination Conformational Changes

Polymers containing edta groups can bind metal ions in an intrachain manner that results in “microrigidification” of the polymer backbone and subsequent changes in mechanical characteristics.

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Great photo of former Cohen laboratory group members gathered in Korea!

Congrats to Dipendu, Maddie, Sam, and Grant on their most recent publication on low-valent MOFs! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Selective hydrosilylation of olefins by a two-dimensional Rh(I) low-valent metal–organic framework

Multitopic phosphine ligands combined with Rh(i) or Ir(i) nodes are shown to assemble into low-valent metal–organic frameworks (LVMOFs) with a two-dimensional (2D) topology. The 2D Rh(i) LVMOF exhibit...

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Honored to be named one of the 2025 RSC Centenary Prize Winners. Many thanks to the RSC and my colleagues in the UK for recognizing me with this tremendous honor. #RSCPrizes www.rsc.org/standards-an...

Congrats to Dipendu, Madison, Sam, and Grant on their latest paper from our group on low-valent metal-organic frameworks (LVMOFs). pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

Congrats to Dr. Alysia Kohlbrand who had her official graduation and hooding ceremony this weekend!

Congrats to the newly-minted Dr. Conor O'Herin! Two PhD defenses in two weeks. Great job Conor!

Thanks again to the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) for honoring me with the Hillebrand Prize. It was a wonderful evening and I appreciate some old DC friends that came out to celebrate with me!

We also got a nice new group photo at Alysia's defense!

Congrats to the latest Ph.D. from the Cohen lab, Dr. Alysia Kohlbrand! It was great that Alysia's family could come see her defend and we had a great celebration with some Mongolian Hot Pot!

I am honored and grateful to receive the 2024 Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW). Thanks to the CSW for this wonderful recognition of our research. capitalchemist.org/2025/04/may-...

Thanks to Prof. Stefan Kaskel (TU Dresden) and the Humboldt Foundation for honoring me with a Research Award. I'm honored to part of this exercise in 'scientific diplomacy' and look forward to collaborating with Prof. Kaskel and visiting other colleagues across Europe.

Thanks to Blacksmith Medicines for the honor of disclosing the structure of their first-in-class antibiotic! So proud to be part of the founding team and to see our science translated into real therapeutic solutions.