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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · 3d

I saw many posts about the @nature.com #MOFs papers selection to celebrate the #NobelPrize in Chemistry, so I checked it out.
It turns out they also highlight the paper I'm the most proud of, designing isoreticular zeolitic MOFs, in the Fundamental research section! 💎
#ChemNobel @natsynth.nature.com

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

www.nature.com

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my first MOF paper.💎
It was the first example of using a the premade Zr6 cluster, and we made fcu-MOFs (UiO-66 like) at room temperature.
I never stopped being amazed by #MOFs architecture since then and I definitely make nicer pictures too.
#chemistrynobel #chemnobel2025 #Nobelprize

A zirconium methacrylate oxocluster as precursor for the low-temperature synthesis of porous zirconium(IV) dicarboxylates

The exchange of the monocarboxylate ligand of the zirconium methacrylate oxocluster Zr6O4(OH)4(OMc)12 (OMc = CH2 [[double bond, length as m-dash]] CH(CH3)COO) with dicarboxylic acids (trans,trans muco...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · 6d

So the year was this year. 💎
#nobelprize #MOFs

Amazed by the beauty of MOFs and their promises. Each of the awardees has a work that was inspirational at some point in my research journey.

Congrats to their teams, it takes top notch people at every level in the lab to achieve what they did!

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · 25d

I was very excited by the upcoming @euromof.bsky.social lineup.💎
A talk the same day as my 3 mentors, Serre, Eddaoudi & Maspoch (@wearenanoup.bsky.social), plus a great session with @kenichiendo.bsky.social, Jose Giner, Wonyoung Choe, & Zhijie Chen.
Sadly, I can't make it. Have a great one!
#mofs

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Aug 20

@crystengcomm.rsc.org, are the covers validated by a panel of elementary school experts in playdoh modelling and sandbox architecture?
Making a step aside full scientific accuracy for artistic purpose can be ok, but don't you see it went a bit far?
Clearly not serving the community's credibility.

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MOF2026 @mof2026.bsky.social · Jul 21

Abstract submission is OPEN!

PhD students and postdocs — we’d love to see you in the Young Investigator Symposium!

Everyone — send in your posters or talks for the main event!

Can't wait to hear your science in New Orleans! 🎉⚜️

na.eventscloud.com/website/8671...

Share far and wide!!! #MOF2026

MOF 2026 Conference

MOF 2026 Conference, MOF 2026, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Metal-Organic Frameworks - International Commission, International MOF Conferences, MOF2026 New Orleans, Young Scientist Symposium

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Jun 21

Literally “cutting-edge” chemistry!
Felicidades Daniel and the @wearenanoup.bsky.social team, that’s a masterpiece!
#COFs #reticularchemistry

NanoUp - Maspoch Group @wearenanoup.bsky.social · Jun 19

What if complexity was already built in — just waiting to be released?
In our latest @science.org, we show how COFs can selectively excise organic macrocycles with precision.
A chemistry that reveals what’s already there. Clip-off Chemistry.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Jun 4

BACK TO BASICS... with a fresh twist! 💎
Last time I presented my work in France was... for my PhD defense🎓, about 15 years ago.
It was so wonderful getting the chance to show what we developed since then, at #frenchMOFs, with half of my defence jury & some former colleagues in the audience!
#MOFs

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · May 12

If you recognize your words, we need your help reproducing your work.💎 😅 1 week? 2 months? 📅 who cares?
"the obtained solution was left to evaporate at room temperature. One week later, light yellow block crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction were obtained by slow evaporation for two months"
#MOFs

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · May 4

May The 4th... be with you. 🌠
Happy #starwarsday2025. I used this artwork multiple times to highlight the #MOFs clip-off chemistry ✂️💎concept we developed with @wearenanoup.bsky.social, and happy to reuse it again!
Lab work was fun.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
🎨 @3dato.bsky.social

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Apr 29

Will be about time for me to finally to start the #TopologyTuesday before the slot gets taken... 😅

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚀 Check out this short video where we break down the results of our latest work published in @natchem.nature.com:
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceCommunication @ec.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @fct_pt @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @cdti-innovacion.bsky.social

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Apr 24

#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

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Apr 21

Not by the beach, not this weekend, yet wrinkled desert sand evolving in the breeze is so satisfying to watch...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Mar 19

Changing the name to Shuhei "FurukaWaaF" in my contacts... Congrats again for this work full of achievements but also promises for the future of #MOPs and reticular chemistry.

Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · Mar 18

WaaFs appeared in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!! Assembling large supramolecules via van der Waals interaction leads forming robust, stable three-dimensional open frameworks. The beautiful sole research done by our former master student @shuntokuda.bsky.social!!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks - Nature Chemistry

In reticular chemistry, the formation of strong chemical bonds between molecular components is typically considered a core prerequisite for synthesizing open-framework materials. Now a series of robus...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Jan 14

Congrats @kenichiendo.bsky.social, @stecanossa.bsky.social and the Lotsch team!
A very beautiful and inspiring one merging features from both #MOFs and #COFs, finally out!

Nature Synthesis @natsynth.nature.com · Jan 14

Now online & open access:

Article by Kenichi Endo, Bettina V. Lotsch & co-workers

Crystalline porous frameworks based on double extension of metal–organic and covalent organic linkages

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#chemsky

Crystalline porous frameworks based on double extension of metal–organic and covalent organic linkages - Nature Synthesis

Double extension of coordination and imine linkages resulted in the synthesis of metal–organic–covalent–organic frameworks (MOCOFs), combining MOF-like crystallinity and COF-like chemical stability wi...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 23

MERRY CHRISTMOF. 💎🎄
Fresh from the press, our #MOFs #design review in Advanced Materials provides basic and advanced knowledge to design porous materials.
We curated beautiful examples to illustrate state of the art strategies, and we hope you'll like it!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 14

💎 Ti-containing #MOFs are challenging in the making but worth the effort.
Just out in Adv. Mater., a nice collab effort between several #Kaust teams (not yet here), Rueping, Eddaoudi, Gascon.
Glad for the opportunity of being part of it!

Check it out! 💎

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ba/Ti MOF: A Versatile Heterogeneous Photoredox Catalyst for Visible‐Light Metallaphotocatalysis

A versatile Ba/Ti-based metal-organic framework (Ba/Ti-MOF) is developed as a highly efficient photocatalyst, enabling the reduction and oxidation of both organic substrates and transition metals, in...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thanks a lot! I didn’t know that one!

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 14

I can’t blame that. Editorial world is so full of strict consistency rules that creative copy editing is probably the least of their concern.

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you Adv. Mater. for making me check what BASF actually means.
(Spoiler: Baden Aniline and Soda Factory.)

I see a loong, (un)productive night ahead, with your (unintuitive) proof system.
Luckily I am familiar with MTN, SOD, #MOFs (already defined though)
I still miss RHO if anyone has a clue.

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Dec 9

SINGAPORE. ☔️🇸🇬
Happy to be back in (stormy) Singapore, invited to the #SICC12 conference.
Quite some familiar names on the lineup, S. Kitagawa, XM Chen, Kaustian colleague C. Yavuz and more.
I’m scheduled at 11:05 on Thursday, symposium 13, with some cool (and partly unpublished) #MOFs design. 💎

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Nov 25

looks like it works! Well done!

Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Nov 25

MERGED NETS.💎
A few days ago, we published about reticular chemistry and merged nets in @science.org.
We identified compatible topologies to be merged into merged-nets. These new nets can help designing multicomponent materials like #MOFs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#pormatsky #retichem

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thanks for spotting it. Swapped and fixed...