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!

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!

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...

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

Good to meet old friends in Taipei at AsCA2025!

Our group at 2025 TwIChE Annual Meeting! Congratulations to Ya-Mei on winning the excellent poster award, Tsan-Yu, Hsin-Ya and Yu-Chi on winning the honorable mention oral presentation awards, and Chi-Lun on winning the honorable mention poster award!

2025 TwIChE Annual Meeting! It is my pleasure to receive the Academy Encouraged Award of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers!

Before the end of the trip in Korea this time, it was great to have visits at Chung-Ang University and Ewha Womans University! Thank Sol, Hoi Ri, and Jaewoong for the warm hosting!

Editorial on the special issue for MOF2024 in CCR: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... It's our pleasure to be contributing authors of one of the articles!

Great visits at Kyungpook National University, Korea University and KAIST over the past 3 days! Thank Minyoung, Chang Seop and Minju for warm hosting, and good to initiate new ideas for further collaborations! Looking forward to 2 more visits in Seoul next week!

Visits in Korea start! 11/12 (Wed.) Seminar@ Kyungpook National Univ. (ChemE) 11/13 (Thur.) Seminar@ Korea Univ. (Chem) 11/14 (Fri.) Seminar@ KAIST (CBE) 11/17 (Mon.) Seminar@ Chung-Ang Univ. (ChemE) 11/18 (Tue.) Seminar@ Ewha Womans Univ. (Chem) Looking forward to meeting friends soon!

Eight months after submitting the package, finally, I just received the official announcement for being promoted as full professor!

Prof. Joseph Hupp's visit in our department at NCKU! It is very nice to have Joe here for the seminar lecture, individual meetings with several our faculty members, and group meeting with our group members!

Power of large pores in MOFs! In our latest work by our student Tsan-Yu, aniline was polymerized in Zr-MOFs with large mesopores, small mesopores, and only micropores. PANI@large mesoporous MOF shows the best rate capability! Check it in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces: doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

In our student Hsin-Ya's work, we reported the first example of Zr-MOF initiator for polymerization to make a conducting polymer! 2D MOF-dispersed PPy can be synthesized for electrochemical sensing. It is just out in ACS Applied Nano Materials: doi.org/10.1021/acsa... #OpenAccess

Enjoying EuroMOF 2025 at Crete! It was really fun time to meet so many friends!

Arriving at Greece! Looking forward to seeing friends at EuroMOF @euromof.bsky.social tomorrow at Crete!

Nice to meet so many friends with enriched discussions at GRC Nanoporous Materials!

Great visit and enjoyable discussions at Dartmouth! Thank Katherine and the Mirica Group for the warm hosting, and it's my pleasure to serve as the external examiner for the defense of Dr. Cline! Looking forward to meeting friends at GRC Nanoporous Materials next week!

Our master student Yu-Chi's work, showing that halogen atoms on linkers of defective UiO-66 can facilitate electrocatalytic oxygen evolution (OER) occurring on neighboring installed iridium sites, is out in CrystEngComm! doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

Farewell & welcome party of the group in 2025! Congratulations to 5 master & 1 PhD students on (going to) graduate this Summer, and congratulations to Kuan-Chu on starting the new journey as PhD student in ChemE at Rice!

Really enjoying AMIC 2025 in Singapore! In addition to talks and discussions, it is also great to show the power of Karaoke from Taiwan (in the banquet)!

Attending Applied Materials & Interfaces Conference (AMIC) in Singapore! Great to meet old and new friends!

Beginning of MOF Taiwan-2025 at NTU, and the party prior to the conference! Great to meet so many friends!

As conference chair, it is my pleasure to announce that 2025 ICGET-Tw & Annual Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Taiwan (ECS-Tw), held at NCKU, Tainan on Oct. 31-Nov. 2, is open for submission and registration! 2025icget-tw.conf.tw Submit your abstract by Aug. 4, 2025!

Great to meet Prof. Xing Yi Ling at NCKU, Taiwan, and really enjoying the discussion! Looking forward to meeting you again at AMIC 2025 in Singapore soon!

Our Department at NCKU, Taiwan, has 3 tenure-track faculty positions in Chemical Engineering and all related fields, to begin from February 2026. Apply before July 15, 2025. More details: che.ncku.edu.tw/p/406-1220-2... Feel free to share and/or message me for more details!

Seeing some ppl (getting more) publishing >100 papers/yr with some high-impact-factor journals. Feeling that from now on, it does not matter which Journal you published and how many. Only things matter are science reported in each work and your actual contributions in each.

Mesopore matters! Our master student Tzu-Hsien's work shows that creating large mesopores in Zr-MOF by surfactant-assisted synthesis can accelerate the ion-coupled charge-hopping process and thus boost electrochemical performances. It is out in Electrochimica Acta: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Our review on Zr-MOFs for batteries and supercapacitors is out in Coordination Chemistry Reviews! doi.org/10.1016/j.cc... I was working intensively on it for a couple months during late 2024, and good to see it's out! Also, glad to see it's a part of special issue of MOF2024@Singapore!