Great to visit iCeMS at Kyoto University and be a part of the Kitagawa-Furukawa Group Seminar with 3 talks in series, including talks from Vincent and Hyunho! Thank Shuhei @furukawas.bsky.social and Kenichi for organizing such an amazing event with enriched discussion!

Great to visit Department of Applied Chemistry at Tohoku University, Japan. Thank Rie for the warm hospitality hosting my visit and seminar!

Congratulations to all students graduating this year! July is the graduation season for graduate students in Taiwan. Serving as examination committee members in 15 master and 1 PhD defenses this year, I just finished the last one. Looking forward to the upcoming travel at Sendai and Kyoto!

Master-thesis defense day of our group this year! Congratulations to Ya-Mei, Chi-Lun, and Yu-Chi on passing their master defenses (with each of them having one 1st-author published work)! It's right before a big typhoon comes, causing a day off for almost the entire Taiwan tomorrow.

Our group at Taiwan International Conference on Catalysis 2026 (TICC 2026)! Congratulations to Cheng-Yan on receiving honorable mention oral presentation award & Yu-Chi on receiving the best poster award!

Good to see that it's officially out! It's my great honor to be on the list of Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2025. Happy to continuously support society journals! doi.org/10.1039/D6CS...

Our master student Yin-Chu's work shows that MOF thin films with large mesopores can facilitate the mass transfer near the electrode, thus enhancing the performance in electrochemical dopamine sensing! It is just out in ACS Appl. Nano Mater.! doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

Graduation season & Group photo time! Congratulations to Yu-Chi, Chi-Lun, and Ya-Mei on graduating from master program! Also congratulations to our undergraduates, Hsin-Hsiang, Ruo-Yu, Jia-Rui, and Yi-Te, on receiving Bachelor's degree and becoming master students in our group!

We show that nanocomposites with redox-active MOPs & polyaniline perform better in supercapacitors than both pristine materials! Good to see this collaboration with @furukawas.bsky.social is out, in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces! doi.org/10.1021/acsa... Great work by Yan-Ling & Tayier!

In Situ Polymerized Polyaniline in Redox-Active Metal–Organic Polyhedra for Supercapacitors

The introduction of porosity into polyaniline (PANI) is key for enhancing its capacitive performance because both electrons and counterions need to migrate through the whole material during the charge...

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Our student Cheng-Yan's work studied stability of Zr-MOF-808 in 18 buffer/unbuffered aqueous solutions, guiding the rational selection of buffer/electrolyte for Zr-MOFs: doi.org/10.1002/ijch... It's in special collection of Isr. J. Chem., honoring Prof. Yaghi's Nobel Prize & 60th birthday!

It was really fun to enjoy good science and meet many friends in MOF2026, and it's my pleasure to present the recent work from our group! Leaving NOLA today and looking forward to seeing you all in Como (2027) and Seoul (2028)!

Dinner after the full day 1 of the main conference of MOF2026!

Presentations from our group at MOF2026 in NOLA! Check it out if you are here!

On the way to New Orleans and looking forward to seeing all friends in MOF2026!

Good to see all friends at MRS Spring@Honolulu! Back to Taiwan now!

If you are in Hawaii for MRS Spring, feel free to join the MOF symposium starting from tomorrow with 23 talks!

Thank Natalia and the group for the warm hospitality hosting my visit at South Carolina! Great discussions and tours! Heading to MRS Spring now and looking forward to meeting friends at Honolulu!

Great to visit University of Central Florida and have exciting discussions! Thank Fernando for hosting!

2-week travel in US just started! I will visit U. Central Florida on April 21, U. South Carolina on April 23, and join the SF08 MOF symposium at MRS Spring in Honolulu! Looking forward to meeting friends soon!

In our collaborative work led by Cheng-Liang Liu's group at NTU, Taiwan, 2D Zr-MOF was used to immobilize N719 (old friend of DSSC), and the sensitized MOF can act as additive to boost photothermoelectric performance! It's just out in ACS Nano! doi.org/10.1021/acsn...

Submission deadline extended to April 10! (13 days left) Join the MOF symposium at 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary on Oct. 25-29, 2026! Submit your abstracts for oral/poster presentations here: ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Feel free to share!

10 days left to submit your abstracts to the MOF symposium at 250th ECS Meeting! ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Join us at Calgary this October!

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The 4th MOF symposium in ECS Meetings will be held at the 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary, Canada, on Oct. 25-29, 2026! Join us and submit abstracts for oral/poster presentations here, by March 27: ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Feel free to share!

As an advisory board member, it is a great honor to receive this recognition from Chemical Society Reviews! @chemsocrev.rsc.org

Our group at 2026 Chemistry National Meeting of Taiwan!

Our master student Ya-Mei's work shows that charged ligands coordinated on luminescent 2D Zr-MOF sheets can "concentrate" ionic species with opposite charge and effectively boost the ion-sensing performance. It is just out in Chem. Commun.! @chemcomm.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/D6CC...

The 4th MOF symposium in ECS Meetings will be held at the 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary, Canada, on Oct. 25-29, 2026! Join us and submit abstracts for oral/poster presentations here, by March 27: ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Feel free to share!

Don’t miss your chance to join researchers and innovators from around the world in New Orleans this May for #MOF2026 Register now and be part of the future of MOFs! 👉 Register todayhttps://na.eventscloud.com/website/86715/home/ #MaterialsScience #MetalOrganicsFramework

Chemical grafting is not always better! Our master student Chi-Lun's work shows that by physically blending a small amount of GO with 2D Zr-MOF sheets, an ultrahigh proton conductivity can be achieved. It is just out in Dalton Transactions! doi.org/10.1039/D5DT...

Our perspective on the design and applications of stable tetravalent MOFs for electrocatalysis, supercapacitors and aqueous batteries is out in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

Stable Tetravalent Metal–Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalysis and Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage

Owing to their chemical stability in water, relatively high specific surface area, and high tunability in both pore structures and chemical functionality in their pores, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs...

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2025 Group year-end party & the white elephant gift exchange!