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Great and new collaborative work with Michael and Jiamin at @univie.ac.at on the control of porosity on the Angström-scale in MOF-glasses in vacuum. Check out the pre-print: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

The IZMM 2026 announcement is finally out! We are welcoming you to join us in Jena in June 2026. Check out the website, register and send us your abstracts. More infos on the speaker line-ups and so on will follow soon. Stay tuned! www.izmm2026.org

Very happy that we from @uni-jena.de could contributed to this great collaborative paper lead by Fabian and Heidi @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, as well as @markussuta.bsky.social. We investigated multimodal encapsulation of pyrelenes as guests into MOFs. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper on the precise control of pore channels in ZIF-62-glasses made it into the Nobel Prize Collection of @nature.com This makes me enormously proud! Thanks to everyone involved! www.nature.com/collections/...

Heartfelt congratulations to Omar Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robeson for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025. Well deserved and long overdue!

Just back from a great 2 day symposium between the DFG research training groups PhInt (Uni Jena) and SPECTRE (Uni Rostock). Both RTGs deal with light-matter interactions. We had a nice time, educational trips and strong scientific exchange. Svetlana, PhD student in my group, delivered a talk. 🌅

Setup is back online. Took half a year to repair... mainly because of delivery. Not beautiful but it works and it got some upgrades. Also, it now has LEDs that blink in RGB colors 😄

Spread the word and save the date! June 22.-26. 2026, the 10th International Zeolite Membrane Meeting, welcomes you in the beautiful city of Jena, Germany. Organized by Hannes Richter, Ingolf Voigt @fraunhofer.bsky.social and myself from @uni-jena.de web: www.ikts.fraunhofer.de/en/communica...

A great opportunity to give a talk at the #ECerS in Dresden. "Molten MOF Membranes - ZIF-Glasses for Highly Precise Molecular Sieving". Thanks to my group members for fueling the talk with content, and to Prof. I. Voigt from Fraunhofer IKTS for inviting me.

Call for papers on MOFs, COFs, Zeolites until March 2026: “Advances in Reticular Microporous and Mesoporous Materials: Design, Characterization, Properties, and Applications" (VSI: ARMMM) in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (IF 4.7). @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Our study is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. We demonstrate CO2-capture in a Cu-phosphonate MOF over the course of 2 years. In Jena, we did the in-situ T-dependent XRD and were amazed by the material. A fruitful collaboration led by R. Oestreich and G. Yücesan doi.org/10.1002/anie...

All 4 of our manuscripts are currently in review, some for longer but with a very delayed response. I hope they don't all come back at the same time. Quadrupple revision will kill me.

Being internationally visible can backfire when publishing with @natureportfolio.nature.com nowadays — editors started inviting 7–10 referees at once. You may face 5–6 reviews. Too many cooks spoil the broth; 3 referees is good, more referees lower the quality of peer review in my opinion.

Polycrystalline membranes from the "dense" MOF MIL-116(Ga) demonstrate exceptional performance in helium upgrading from natural gas. We thoroughly investigate the influence of crystal growth and grain boundaries on gas permeation. Read our pre-print on reseach square doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Three papers simultaneously submitted. One recently accepted. Only one in the making. Feels good to finally get things done again! Papers blocking the desk feels so bad. Hopefully, referees will be nice.

If you ever get pressured to finish up a 5 year old paper with 25 co-authors on it, I can give you one advice: Say no and pretend to be dead. The more internal revision rounds you do the stronger your depression peak. They will answer-all emails with "major concerns" about their own piece of work...

Follow-up to my reviewer experience with ACS Langmuir. Invitation recieved on 08.07.2025, 4 a.m. CET. Accepted on 10.07.2025 ~8 p.m. CET. Reminder "Review due" recieved 12.07.2025 (Sa) 2 a.m. Notification "Review no longer needed" 14.07.2025 (Mo) 9 a.m. Will not review in the future.

Accepted to review a paper on Thursday. First reminder "your review is due soon" on Saturday, 2 a.m. Calm down Langmuir, calm down.

The #MOF Universe got a massive update with many additional information. We asked also for potential collaboration intentions - so have a look! Many thanks to everyone who took part in the survey and to the COST Initiative EU4MOFs for funding my work! crystalsymmetry.wordpress.com/mof-universe/

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Would be cool if we could realize this biological aspect in our technical realization of membranes. Membrane technology is still suffering from a strong technical abstraction. Self-repair and stimuli-response is the way to go!

First day in office and I already need holidays again

When you come back from vacation and you have 234 emails, 25 missed phone calls and your students have 20+ questions, you remember why you went on vacation.

Our article on free standing MOF-Glass membranes published on ChemRxiv has 252 views and 217 downloads in 2 weeks. The ChemRxiv is becoming more and more attractive to the community of scientists. Hope we can overcome the publishing system at some point! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Check out our new preprint on how to prepare large area, free-standing MOF-glass membranes.They show a perfect exclusion of CH4 (undetectable) in gas permeation experiments! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Congratulations to Dr. Smirnova on passing her PhD exam yesterday. Oksana is the 2nd PhD from my group. I was minimum as nervous as you! Thanks to the committee members Lothar Wondraczek, Martin Oschatz, Felix Schacher, Benjamin Dietzek and our external referee Morten Smedskjaer.

Congratulations to Daria Poloneeva on her successful PhD defense! KAUST has a new doctor. I am happy that I was invited to serve on her committee, together with Jorge Gascon, Ingo Pinnau, Luigi Cavallo and Anastasiya Bavykina.

KAUST is sooo cool. Its a nice place for research. Even though, I think I'd get bored being here for a longer time.

After 7 years I am back at KAUST. Paying a visit to examine a PhD thesis at KCC. Walked around my old apartment house, trodded old paths and revisited the campus yesterday night - directly after arrival. Smells, temperatures, buildings... not much has changed. 😄

My favourite response to students showing me powder "this came out of my synthesis! It is of ____ color. Is it MOF?" has become "I could tell you if I were Superman. Unfortunately, I don't have x-ray eyes. Go get a PXRD :)". However, I acknowledge the enthusiasm. Students are cute.

I got recently remembered of the darkest time of my scientific research career. I was in Madrid, Spain for a 2 week stay to conduct some measurements. They made a can of coffee for 3 days and they warmed up it in the microwave when they wanted to drink one.

Check out our newest work on luminescent MOF mixed matrix membranes as multi-level anti-counterfeiting materials through different optical and electronical responses. Lead by Moritz Maxeiner and Klaus Müller-Buschbaum. #COORNETs advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today I repotted parts of my bonsai. They are ready for Spring season! Dedication for bonsai is the same as for science 🧐 now I am looking forward for their beauty in the upcoming weeks.

Svetlana presenting her work on dielectric relaxation spectroscopy on MOFs at the 36th DZT in Erlangen 2 weeks ago. Her first conference, and she had alot of interactions and a great experience with interested scientists.

Had a great time at DZT in Erlangen last week.

Ayisha giving her first talk at a conference at the #DZT36 at the FAU Erlangen about her recently published paper. Great talk and an interesting follow-up discussion.

Congratulations to Ayisha from the Team of @knebelalexander.bsky.social On her paper out in Advanced Functional Materials! Nominally "non-porous" MIL-116(Ga) can be used for Helium Upgrading! Glad we could help! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ideal Molecular Sieving with a Dense MOF for Helium Upgrading with Highly Diffusion Selective Mixed Matrix Membranes https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202423999?af=R

Just out in Adv. Funct. Mater.! We unlock the potential of long neglected "dense" MOFs as perfect molecular sieves. Our paper investigates He/CH4 separation with "dense" MIL-116(Ga) in a highly diffusion selective Mixed Matrix Membrane. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to be part of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Microporous and Mesoporous Materials early career advisory board (ECCB). Kick-off just now! Looking forward to an interesting time.

Dr. Sebastian Leukel will give his talk "Specialty Glass Development at SCHOTT" on the 18.02.2025 at 5 p.m. CET, organized by the Division Solid State Chemistry & Materials @gdch.bsky.social. Amazing industry insights ahead! Register for free us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tuesday 28.01.2025 at 5 p.m. German time, Dr. Gerhard Mestl from Clariant will give us insights from industry into the development of heterogeneous catalysts in his talk in our GDCh Seminar. Register free of charge to take part in this exciting event. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today, 5 p.m. (German time), Dr. Sandip De from @BASF will provide insights on "AI-power Catalyst Design" in the @gdch.bsky.social Online Seminar Series. Due to some technical issues, there is a new link. Please register with this link and join in for free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

After 3 years of hard work and collaborative efforts between Uni Jena and Trencin FunGlass Centre, Orhans paper on ZIF-62-glass selective oxygen sensors is finally out in Adv. Funct. Mater. Big team effort led by Lothar, contributions by Oksana, Xia, and more. check it out doi.org/10.1002/adfm...

Happy to share that I’ve been given the opportunity to join the Early Career Council Board of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. Excited for the journey ahead! #MICMAT #MICMATECCB

Unfortunately, we have to inform you that todays seminar is cancled due to technical issues. The talk of Schott AG will be postponed to a later date. The other talks will take place as planned.

Ever wondered how science and research is in industry? We could actually win 3 speakers from industry that offer real research insights. On 07.01.2025, 5 p.m. (German time) we start with Dr. Leukel from Schott AG. All talks in english and registration free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So, @springernature.bsky.social is now offering an AI writing assistant. What is it doing? I hope its a better grammar and spelling checker and does not write content for authors...