EuroMOF

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Leading biannual events, uniting experts from academia and industry to discuss advancements in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Porous Polymers. Initiated by DECHEMA, they serve as a platform for innovation, collaboration & knowledge exchange

So the year was this year. 💎 #nobelprize #MOFs Amazed by the beauty of MOFs and their promises. Each of the awardees has a work that was inspirational at some point in my research journey. Congrats to their teams, it takes top notch people at every level in the lab to achieve what they did!

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

Excited to see our work “Protons Accumulate at the Graphene−Water Interface” now published in ACS Nano! 🎉 Using ML-driven MD simulations, we uncover why hydronium prefers the graphene–water interface while hydroxide does not. 💧⚡🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acsn...

Protons Accumulate at the Graphene–Water Interface

Water’s ability to autoionize into hydroxide and hydronium ions profoundly influences surface properties, rendering interfaces either basic or acidic. While it is well-established that protons show an affinity to the air–water interface, a critical knowledge gap exists in technologically relevant surfaces like the graphene–water interface. Here we use machine learning-based simulations with first-principles accuracy to unravel the behavior of hydroxide and hydronium ions at the graphene–water interface. Our findings reveal that protons accumulate at the graphene–water interface, with the hydronium ion predominantly residing in the first contact layer of water. In contrast, the hydroxide ion exhibits a bimodal distribution, found both near the surface and further away from it. Analysis of the underlying electronic structure reveals local polarization effects, resulting in counterintuitive charge rearrangement. Proton propensity to the graphene–water interface challenges the interpretation of surface experiments and is expected to have far-reaching consequences for ion conductivity, interfacial reactivity, and proton-mediated processes.

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Don’t miss this #OpenAccess review by EuroMOF ISC member Mehrdad Asgari and colleagues Pablo Albacete, Dhruv Menon, Yuexi Lyu, Xu Chen & @davidfairen.bsky.social — a great read for the MOF community!

Chemical Society Reviews@chemsocrev.rsc.org · last yr.

Be sure to read this #OpenAccess review by Mehrdad Asgari, Pablo Albacete, Dhruv Menon, Yuexi Lyu, Xu Chen and @davidfairen.bsky.social "The structuring of porous reticular materials for energy applications at industrial scales" Read the full review here 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/cont...