@zgroupUL revisits the Werner complex Ni(4-Mepyridine)4(NCS)2 and confirms that it exists as close-packed (left), (inclusion, middle) and shape memory (right) phases. See InorgChemFront: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Congrats to all authors especially SQ, now at A*STAR

@zgroupUL 💕sql nets (X-sql-1-Cu) + 💕flexibility + 💕polymorphism, all of which reported in our latest paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… In this case, polymorphism was found to impact Pgo Many congrats to 1st author Aizhamal Subanbekova + collaborators Materials & Catalysis Modelling Group, StefanKaskel

Even when the weather is grim, gloomy and grey, the University Of Limerick campus is special. Add perfect weather + research buildings named after pioneering crystallographers J.D. Bernal🇮🇪 + K. Lonsdale🇮🇪? Then it is "crystal clear": amazing + second to none come to mind. Our 🥤 is >>half full

A double diamondoid (ddi) network can work wonders - in this case phase switching induced by C8 aromatics. Reported by @zgroupUL + Materials & Catalysis Modelling Group Now out OA in ACS Materials Letters: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Congrats Kyriaki Koupepidou "KK" for her latest flexible MOF paper + SQ "SQ"

We 😻 sql nets! An sql topology coordination network exhibits light (2+2 cycloaddition) and guest (gas, solvent) responsive transformations as reported by @zgroupUL in Angewandte Chemie: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Congrats Meiyan Gao + collaborators inc StefanKaskel + MOFs@Manchester teams.

CALF-20 scores again! @zgroupUL pleased to partner with Yun-Lei Peng, Guangjin Chen and Zhenjie Zhang groups on the ability of narrow pore MOF CALF-20 to purify ethylene from 7-component hydrocarbon gas mixture, now in CCS Chemistry: chinesechemsoc.org/doi/abs/10.316… 😍 ultramicropores!

We 🩷sql nets - a gift that keeps on giving @zgroupUL shows in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces how pore chemistry controls water vapour sorption properties in an isostructural platform of sql nets: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac……Unsurprising but hard to prove 🪇1st author @xiali_lisa 🙏Timo Thonhauser group

Flexible double-walled dia net offers surprisingly high methane storage capacity. @xiali_lisa has her 2nd ACS paper today in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… @zgroupUL really 🩷dia nets 🙏Materials & Catalysis Modelling Group, StefanKaskel group, Len Barbour and the "ZZ" group NanKai University 🎉TGIF🥂

MOF2024 is about to start >20 y after 🇸🇬 hosted a MOF symposium (ICMAT, Dec 2003). Focus then was design rather than applications but the international scope of MOFs was evident. Take a peek at the illustrious back row. @zgroupUL is pleased to be contribute to both meetings.

MOF2024 🇸🇬attended by current and former Mike Zaworotko group members + almost 1000 others including 3 MOF pioneers from 🇯🇵 Brilliant to see progress in design/properties/ applications, including for CO2 capture. Reason for optimism about sustainability. MOFs will have impact and soon.

Q. Why is Xenon important? 1 The world's greatest pinball machine 2 Potentially the best anaesthetic 3 Both of the above A = 3 Recycling of Xe enabled thru CO2/H2O capture by CUPMOF-5: Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Collaboration between @zgroupUL and Y-L Peng of China University Of Petroleum

Crystal engineering has come a long way and Mike Zaworotko group pleased to kick off 2 weeks of conferences with 4th IUPAC workshop on Crystal Engineering hosted by Pierangelo + Gabriella Cavallo + Giancarlo Terraneo in Milano. Even more to come from Padova @eca_social and Poznan @17isic22526

The 4th IUPAC workshop on Crystal Engineering included insightful lectures by Pance Naumov + Kari Rissanen University of Jyväskylä on self-healing crystals and halogen bonding. We take them for granted today but this was not the case a generation ago. #crystalengineering has come far.

@zgroupUL congratulates its latest PhD graduates. Kyriaki Koupepidou🇨🇾+ Aizhamal Subanbekova🇰🇬 joined at the height of the COVID pandemic and worked together to expand the scope of flexible MOFs through systematic #crystalengineering studies. Proud of them and expecting much future success.

@zgroupUL so pleased to participate in 17ISIC in beautiful Poznan🇵🇱, the country that hosted the first ISIC >40 y ago. The opening lecture from the inspiring Jean-Marie Lehn at UAM Poznań kicks off a week focused upon the chemistry of inclusion compounds + porous materials

Today's opening session at 17ISIC included presentations from @zgroupul members "KK" Kyriaki Koupepidou + "ACE" Alan Eaby They presented unpublished work on transient porosity and water harvesting, respectively. Outstanding style and content from both.

This is an understatement. What a week! Thanks to Agnieszka M. Janiak and team for resurrecting ISIC and organizing such a great week of science!

A brilliant + sunny 2 weeks of conferencing by @zgroupul concluded today 17ISIC with a presentation by Yassin H. Andaloussi Jerry Atwood family members participated from as far away as S. Africa, USA, India + Australia. 4 generations present (depending on how one unravels the incest)

The effect of mixed ligands and partial thermolysis on the sorption properties of UIO-66-NH2 detailed in pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art… Mike Zaworotko group (Victoria Gascon-Perez) pleased to collaborate on DVS experiments with Linia Gedi of The finest group 🇿🇼 #materialsadvances #bernalnews

The @zgroupul road trip continues in Belo Horizonte XXI BMIC hosted by UFMG. Great to meet @cahill_ArlVa and Marius Andruh + see their lectures in such a beautiful part of our planet.