Kenichi Endo

Today I am talking in my reticular materials class about the stability of MOFs, where I show this great figure of stability in phosphate buffer. It is always important to specify that stable means in what context! From this great paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Looking into reliable and longterm spectroscopic data storage I realized the ubiquity of the JCAMP-DX files.
But why are they so complicated. Why not a good old X-Y file?
I can imagine an digital archeologist finding these in 100 years and rolling their eyes.

I agree, the metadata section is good but the data section is too complicated

“in which” means the synthetic details will be described in the inert atmosphere?!

YouTube video by Veritasium Why Don’t Jet Engines Melt?

The jet engine turbine blades are each gigantic single crystals?! And yet they contain a controlled degree of correlated disorder?! I will take a closer look when I fly next time…
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My vote goes for cyclo[48]carbon. It is just astonishing

Learned a lot about the fascinating chemistry of conductive organic polymers, and wished our COFs were more conductive

Invited to talk in the International Symposium on Emerging Materials and Characterizations for Optoelectronics at South China University of Technology today and tomorrow!

New device arrived at our group! Leica CPD300 critical point dryer, capable of automatic supercritical CO2 treatment. Useful for removing solvents from MOFs and COFs without affecting the framework structure.

Sharpening Ideas into Funded Projects - DFG Workshop for Early-Career Researchers - Collaborative Research Center 1333 How do you turn a great research idea into a successfully funded project? That was the key question explored at the Early-Career Researchers’ Workshop “How to Write a Successful Proposal for DFG and R...

How do you turn a great research idea into a funded project? This ❔was at the heart of the Early-Career Researchers’ Workshop on writing successful @dfg.de proposals, hosted by SPP2080 Dynakat. @kenichiendo.bsky.social joined to prepare for the next #CRC1333 funding round. ▶️more: 🔗 bit.ly/4qAjRX4

Perplexity Pro for Education giving a 1-year free subscription is pretty generous. So far, it is the most useful LLM for me

Rhombic triacontahedron toy (point group Ih)

Promotional graphic with a polyhedral depiction of a packed MOF structure (CSD Entry WEMBUN) with water and ethanol solvate molecules removed as well as photos of the 5 panellists.

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#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials

Wow cool!

A graph showing the process of single crystal diffraction analysis as a semicircle, starting from a crystal, and continuing with scattering data, Bragg intensities, average structure, and at the end average model.

Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎

#crystallography #MOFs

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Beautiful. Is there any rule for coloration of triangles?

What do sponges, bricks & catalytic converters have in common? 🤔

Find out with #CRC1333 doctoral researcher Fabian Heck at Science in the Bar!
📍 Café Faust, Stuttgart | 🕗 Oct 23, 20:00
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Year X/Twitter Research Mentions 2022 28,197,471 2023 24,446,548 2024 17,634,330 2025 9,375,463

2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.

Celebrated the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for MOFs with #EU4MOFs people!

A Nobel medal

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

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

Nobel Prize for MOFs!!

I know this paper, but my understanding is this is more of stacking or other physical changes, related to (non-reactive) solvents

Interesting! This effect should be important for the COF synthesis in scCO2, but for the workup of solvothermal synthesis, carbonic acid generated from residual water sounds much weaker than acidic conditions in synthesis.

Yeah it is easy enough

Reading “Organic Chemistry for Babies” with my son

Presenting a poster today at P061 to showcase my new group

We are looking for postdoctoral candidates in the areas of organic electronics, operando spectroscopy in catalysis, advanced EPR. CV and cover letter to slageren@ipc.uni-stuttgart.de, stating what complementary expertise you bring and why our group interests you.

Attending the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry next week! #SFC2025

I have stopped drinking energy drinks some time ago, but for this intense conference I made an exception #EuroMOF @euromof.bsky.social