Kenichi Endo

This bouncy ball toy reminds me of Fujita’s peptide cage (though the crossing topology is a little different)
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It was nice to meet some familiar and new faces in Chemiedozententagung 2026. @ettlab.bsky.social @knebelalexander.bsky.social

The benefit of using Keynote instead of PowerPoint for presentations is that most conferences do not support the format, so I need to export the slides into PDF, which forces me to avoid spending time elaborating animations (besides its UI is better to nicely stylize slides)

That is more like saying "worked" when there is only one or zero peak in PXRD fitted with Pawley refinement of imaginary structure model...

It may have worked 80% of the previously tried conditions, which have only a handful of variations. When introducing new conditions (e.g., a solvent other than mesitylene/dioxane) for some reason, it could fail easily

I call water in imine COF synthesis a "modulator" because it inhibits the linkage formation by thermodynamic competition, just like other modulators

I genuinely cannot understand why most COF chemists add acid and water as a mixture, such as 6 M AcOH aq. The two chemicals have distinct roles in COF formation, and their amounts can be independently optimized to get better results.

A new preprint with Andrés, my former colleague at @lotschgroup.bsky.social! (also @crc1333.bsky.social )
We looked into COF-366-Co for electrocatalytic OER, and found good stability but limitations in activity.
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Thank you organizers for this lively conference!

Presented our recent work on MOFs x data science in the 37th German Zeolite Conference. We had a good discussion on the future of MOF synthesis!

Everyone: weekly, biweekly, every 3 weeks, …
Organic chemist: weekly, biweekly, terweekly, quaterweekly, quinqueweekly, …

Fare Well Party for @stecanossa.bsky.social in Stuttgart with @kenichiendo.bsky.social and @lotschgroup.bsky.social. Another good reason to visit Korea but you will be missed!!

A student pronounced UiO-67 as “yu-ai-ou…six-seven” unintentionally and I had to hold my laugh

I assume the radiation safety officer liked it☢️

For “Bragg reflections (correctly peaks/diffraction)” and “n-dimensional (n-periodic or nD-connected)”, I am kind of giving up correcting them because I see them so often. Rather, resorting to seeing them as new meanings of the words. At least they are not as confusing as lattice/structure

MPIF, a way to standardize MOF synthesis protocols for reproducibility and machine-readability! We support the idea and further development

Rheological Characteristics and Gelation Mechanism of Tofu (Soybean Curd)

Tofu is made by the interaction between Mg2+ or Ca2+ ions and protein residues. If it is coordination, maybe tofu is a MOF in a broad sense??
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I started recording dates in the YYYY-M-D format, but somebody took a turn at 02.02. to the German DD.MM. format 🤦‍♂️

In our second new preprint this week, we share a surprisingly under-discussed risk in camera-based monitoring:

✂️🎨 When Chemistry is Too Colourful: Gamut Clipping in 8-bit sRGB Risks Misinterpretation of Camera-Based Chemical Analysis

Not every trend is meaningful👇🏻
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Forgot to mention it was led by our research data management team (Jürgen Pleiss, Niels Hansen) of @crc1333.bsky.social!
RDM is getting important in modern research.

New preprint! We worked with data scientist colleagues on how we can tidy up messy records of MOF syntheses and use them for ML. The keyword is "data model"! @esengulciftci.bsky.social @simonkrause.bsky.social
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Apparently, we became professors in the nerd state of Germany. Not bad

Congratulations! Enjoy it

It's sometimes not bad to read a bunch of old papers for preparing a lecture

Our first group outing, at Stuttgart Christmas Market!🍷

Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025 Immense progress in gene-editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.

Some reasons to be cheerful about 2025: drug discovery, progress in gene editing, and conservation

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Here’s the first entry in our spoof-ad competition: The McSolvent Fountain.

We welcomed our first postdoc, Dr. Manpreet Singh, last week! He will leverage his rich experiences with #MOFs for our CO2 hydrogenation thermocatalysis project together with @esteslab.bsky.social and @crc1333.bsky.social

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.