SCAFFOLD REMOVAL👷‍♂️💎 In the past years we developed a #MOFs synthetic approach inspired by #architecture & applied it at the molecular scale. We've been asked many times whether we could remove these molecular scaffold/falseworks. Yes, we can! Fresh off the press in @natchem.nature.com

I finished last week with a beautiful paper accepted & started this one with an even more beautiful paper rejected… I’ve put my heart in both, and I feel sorry for those who made the lab work but didn’t get the reward we hoped for. We’ll revise, improve, submit elsewhere. #MOFs

MOFES'26 💎 Being back to India after 20 years also came with a wonderful #MOFES conference. Great talks, smooth organization, friends from overseas, peaceful campus, spicy food, fresh juices and crazy traffic. Thanks #IncredibleIndia for having me! Prof. Tapas Maji and the volunteers did amazing!

SPECIAL ISSUE. Since our review first went online for a special issue (unofficially) dedicated to his 60th birthday, Omar Yaghi not only turned 60 but also received the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry for the development of #MOFs. Happy to see my artwork illustrating the issue!

Have you ever struggled, trying to make stable, crystalline Cr-MOFs?💎 Even by transmetalating Fe-MOFs? I did. Many did! That’s why we developed a new route to single crystalline, stable Cr-MOFs from In and Co parents #MOFs. Fresh off the press in @jacs.acspublications.org doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

When you want to connect to @acs.org platform as reviewer but you select the author role by mistake and realize you have fresh proofs to go through! 🤩💎 #MOFs

I saw many posts about the @nature.com #MOFs papers selection to celebrate the #NobelPrize in Chemistry, so I checked it out. It turns out they also highlight the paper I'm the most proud of, designing isoreticular zeolitic MOFs, in the Fundamental research section! 💎 #ChemNobel @natsynth.nature.com

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

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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 · last yr.

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 🧪

I was very excited by the upcoming @euromof.bsky.social lineup.💎 A talk the same day as my 3 mentors, Serre, Eddaoudi & Maspoch (@wearenanoup.bsky.social), plus a great session with @kenichiendo.bsky.social, Jose Giner, Wonyoung Choe, & Zhijie Chen. Sadly, I can't make it. Have a great one! #mofs

Abstract submission is OPEN! PhD students and postdocs — we’d love to see you in the Young Investigator Symposium! Everyone — send in your posters or talks for the main event! Can't wait to hear your science in New Orleans! 🎉⚜️ na.eventscloud.com/website/8671... Share far and wide!!! #MOF2026

Literally “cutting-edge” chemistry! Felicidades Daniel and the @wearenanoup.bsky.social team, that’s a masterpiece! #COFs #reticularchemistry

NanoUp - Maspoch Group@wearenanoup.bsky.social · last yr.

What if complexity was already built in — just waiting to be released? In our latest @science.org, we show how COFs can selectively excise organic macrocycles with precision. A chemistry that reveals what’s already there. Clip-off Chemistry. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BACK TO BASICS... with a fresh twist! 💎 Last time I presented my work in France was... for my PhD defense🎓, about 15 years ago. It was so wonderful getting the chance to show what we developed since then, at #frenchMOFs, with half of my defence jury & some former colleagues in the audience! #MOFs

If you recognize your words, we need your help reproducing your work.💎 😅 1 week? 2 months? 📅 who cares? "the obtained solution was left to evaporate at room temperature. One week later, light yellow block crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction were obtained by slow evaporation for two months" #MOFs

May The 4th... be with you. 🌠 Happy #starwarsday2025. I used this artwork multiple times to highlight the #MOFs clip-off chemistry ✂️💎concept we developed with @wearenanoup.bsky.social, and happy to reuse it again! Lab work was fun. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... 🎨 @3dato.bsky.social

🚀 Check out this short video where we break down the results of our latest work published in @natchem.nature.com: 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ScienceCommunication @ec.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @fct_pt @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @cdti-innovacion.bsky.social

#MOPs WITH A GECKO'S GRIP.💎🦎 I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social. They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇 rdcu.be/ei8Pj #MOFs

Changing the name to Shuhei "FurukaWaaF" in my contacts... Congrats again for this work full of achievements but also promises for the future of #MOPs and reticular chemistry.

Shuhei Furukawa@furukawas.bsky.social · 2y ago

WaaFs appeared in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!! Assembling large supramolecules via van der Waals interaction leads forming robust, stable three-dimensional open frameworks. The beautiful sole research done by our former master student @shuntokuda.bsky.social!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats @kenichiendo.bsky.social, @stecanossa.bsky.social and the Lotsch team! A very beautiful and inspiring one merging features from both #MOFs and #COFs, finally out!

Nature Synthesis@natsynth.nature.com · 2y ago

Now online & open access: Article by Kenichi Endo, Bettina V. Lotsch & co-workers Crystalline porous frameworks based on double extension of metal–organic and covalent organic linkages www.nature.com/articles/s44... #chemsky

MERRY CHRISTMOF. 💎🎄 Fresh from the press, our #MOFs #design review in Advanced Materials provides basic and advanced knowledge to design porous materials. We curated beautiful examples to illustrate state of the art strategies, and we hope you'll like it!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💎 Ti-containing #MOFs are challenging in the making but worth the effort. Just out in Adv. Mater., a nice collab effort between several #Kaust teams (not yet here), Rueping, Eddaoudi, Gascon. Glad for the opportunity of being part of it! Check it out! 💎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ba/Ti MOF: A Versatile Heterogeneous Photoredox Catalyst for Visible‐Light Metallaphotocatalysis

A versatile Ba/Ti-based metal-organic framework (Ba/Ti-MOF) is developed as a highly efficient photocatalyst, enabling the reduction and oxidation of both organic substrates and transition metals, in...

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Thank you Adv. Mater. for making me check what BASF actually means. (Spoiler: Baden Aniline and Soda Factory.) I see a loong, (un)productive night ahead, with your (unintuitive) proof system. Luckily I am familiar with MTN, SOD, #MOFs (already defined though) I still miss RHO if anyone has a clue.

SINGAPORE. ☔️🇸🇬 Happy to be back in (stormy) Singapore, invited to the #SICC12 conference. Quite some familiar names on the lineup, S. Kitagawa, XM Chen, Kaustian colleague C. Yavuz and more. I’m scheduled at 11:05 on Thursday, symposium 13, with some cool (and partly unpublished) #MOFs design. 💎

MERGED NETS.💎 A few days ago, we published about reticular chemistry and merged nets in @science.org. We identified compatible topologies to be merged into merged-nets. These new nets can help designing multicomponent materials like #MOFs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #pormatsky #retichem

ABSTRACT. 🦋 I do #science, I design porous #materials called #MOFs using #topology, and sometimes I do #sciart to illustrate it. 💎 (And I see there is a 1 min video restriction here 😅) I am also a #travel & #concert #photographer, when time allows! 📷 Let’s see how are things under the blue sky!