We designed soft porous crystals based on flexible MOCs!! MircoED enables us to characterize two distinct activated phases of MOCs: one is flexible, and the other is rigid. Nice teamwork with Donglin, Javi @cabrelles497.bsky.social, and Jack!! Posted on @chemrxiv.org. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Spot one substitutional defect

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Celebrated the day 1 of my new hobby with this coolest framework

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

Really happy to see this team effort out in Angew. Chem., where we used 3D electron diffraction to observe a metal-organic polyhedron-to-polymer transition, and observe the activated phase. Big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting our work on this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I fully enjoyed the intense week in the 6th International School on Aperiodic Crystals at MPI-CPfS in Dresden! A chunk of minerals for my poster prize is a real treat for the painful learning curve I had in the 6D space of quasicrystals. Huge thanks to the organizers for opening this amazing school!

Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)

Check out this Jiyeon’s beautiful work on the realization of quasiperiodicity with MOFs! 🎉🥳 Beautiful structure does not always have to come with periodicity, even with MOFs!

Just out in Nature Communications! @natcomms.nature.com We dive into the quasiperiodicity of moiré 2D MOFs😉🔬 Grateful to Prof. W.Choe and our team, and to collaborators Prof. S.S. Park and Prof. J.Kim for their contributions. Read the paper here👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62247-2

My first beamtime at BESSY II MX14 were fantastic!! 💫 Huge thanks to the beamline scientists for the warm supports and of course to Stefano @stecanossa.bsky.social for the diffractive discussions as always!

c2mm #BraggYourPattern

Wrapped up 24 intense hours at BESSY II, lots of data, and a truly valuable experience. Huge thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social and @shuntokuda.bsky.social for the help, and to @simonkrause.bsky.social for all his support. Looking forward to data analysis 😊

cm stacked on pm #BraggYourPattern

📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents' by Bettina V. Lotsch, Sebastian Bette et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciCovers @lotschgroup.bsky.social.

p31m #BraggYourPattern

Group outing in Ulm. Thrilled to have the team at our new home! #schwörmal

You can find how strong our conjugation among the group members is in this picture 💪

Look at our first group photo in 2025! We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲 Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!

Very interesting experiments on the angular momentum of phonons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a great honor that I participated the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. It was a fully staffed week with great chemistry, exchange with people (including many from Japan!), and of course the great locations. I need a Nobel prize to come back here. #LINO25

If diamond is a huge molecule, are all the 2D COFs and MOFs WaaFs? 🧐

Our fruitful summer started with the #MOFschool2025 in Como 🏞️ Amelie gave a poster presentation, Shun got a prize for the Q&A sessions, and Sam hosted a lovely quiz night! Our online attendees also enjoyed the top-notch talks 🤓 Huge thanks to the organisers for setting up this amazing school!!

As a big problem (I believe) in our porous materials community, I genuinely don’t understand why researchers do not report numerical data of NLDFT/GCMC/QSDFT kernels… I am searching literature more than 3 years but found only one paper from Miyahara does. Is there any paper I am missing?

Wonderful reunion of the group at #MOFSchoool2025, Lake Como, Italy. Kiko organized it, Shuhei gave lectures, Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social got an in-person engagement award and Heng-Yu got a poster prize. Well done!! We appreciate Valentina, Simona and Jorge for this opportunity.

PhD/Postdoc position in my group is open now 🚀 Are you interested in catalysis within MOFs/COFs? Want a brand-new environment? Apply or ask me anything by June 27, 2025! Repost appreciated 🤝 www.ipoc.uni-stuttgart.de/pcmc/positio...

Great opportunities to initiate a wonderful science with the nice PI. Don’t miss it.

Hello, my Japanese friends! Our work on WaaF was highlighted on the Chem-Station and the article is open from yesterday! Check out this piece for the story behind the paper 👇 www.chem-station.com/blog/2025/04...

✨Our work on optoionic charge storage in COF, where we provide insights into decoupled solar energy conversion and storage is now published in JACS.✨ @lotschgroup.bsky.social @mpifkf.bsky.social Open access paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #solar #energy #battery #COFs

We hosted over 100 participants from around the world for the DGK PhD course on Rietveld & PDF analysis! A week of cutting-edge theory, hands-on training, and global collaboration. Thanks to all who made it a success! 🔬🌍 www.fkf.mpg.de/8681487/2025...

#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

Very excited to see @gecniv.bsky.social 's deep perspective and beautiful art pieces on our WaaFs, just published in @natchem.nature.com as News & Views! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool metamaterials that convert uniaxial piston motion into rotation (vice versa) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's still funny that I can quite easily tell most of the "invitation" emails to me are not serious, as they always come with Dr. or Prof. titles in from of my name...I don't have non of them yet!

Maybe this is the first phase-impure sample that made me happy

Beautiful work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back from great two days at @mpifkf.bsky.social celebrating the new position in @uniulm.bsky.social and a bit of fare well. So honoured to work with these guys and a big thanks to the whole @lotschgroup.bsky.social ! #baileyssontherocks

Interesting use of plastic crystals as a optical waveguide onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Lucky me!🥳 My application to the MOFSchool2025 @mofschool.bsky.social was accepted! Really looking forward to meeting the wonderful lecturers in the beautiful location!

Very funny but interesting idea to classify protein molecules based on how they "rupture" under electric stress journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Congrats again to Bettina for being awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award! 🎉 The group is extremely proud! Check out her portrait video ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY47...

Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks, from Shuhei Furukawa and Shun Tokuda @furukawas.bsky.social @shuntokuda.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky

I am honoured to announce my acceptance for the attendance in the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (Chemistry) as a delegate from our institute @mpifkf.bsky.social ! See you my (future) friends in Lindau, at the end of June! #LINO25

A great work from Shun, enlarging the family of porous crystalline materials!

Absolutely beautiful work from Shuhei and his student @shuntokuda.bsky.social And another acronym enters the vocabulary, WaaFs! #chemsky #mofs

@shuntokuda.bsky.social and @furukawas.bsky.social strike again. great paper in @naturechemistry.bsky.social