I was delighted to attend the Nobel Symposium 2025! It is a significant milestone for the MOF field, and I am excited to participate in this important event. It was fascinating to listen to the Nobel lectures in Chemistry, as well as the lectures from other Nobel fields. Congratulations again to Prof. Omar Yaghi, Prof. […]
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) represent a unique class of reticular materials attracting a sharp interest for key industrial directions including gas adsorption/separation, energy storage, and catalysis. In line with this, a sustainable scaling-up of ZIFs production is applying the 12 principles of Green Chemistry, resulting in green synthesis protocols. However, at this stage, we are […]
I am very happy about the 2025 Nobel Prize, which is a very exciting achievement for MOF research. Congratulations to all the laureates! I would like to express a special congratulation to Prof. Omar Yaghi, with whom we worked for 10 years and who believed in me when I was a young researcher at the […]
This paper tackles a fundamental question in chemistry: how to create and quantitatively characterize specific non-covalent interactions? There is an enormous diversity of non-covalent interactions because such interactions can occur between any chemical groups that happen to get close enough. While certain types of non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonds, have been well defined and […]
The 2nd European Chemistry School for Ukrainians is officially underway! Hosted under the patronage of the Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology and the President of the Polish Chemical Society, this exciting event brings together students, researchers, and chemistry experts from across Europe for three months of intensive scientific learning and knowledge exchange, […]
To tackle the enzyme fragility and bolster the applicability of enzymes as heterogeneous catalysts, it is imperative to address not only their inherent fragility, insufficient recyclability but also, importantly, to mitigate their deactivation during purification. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been shown to be, on the one hand, a promising platform for enzyme entrapment. However, at […]
In the past 25 years reticular chemistry has matured into an advanced field of research, recognized as a driving force for the development of key technologies in the field of functional materials. The high surface areas, the potential for chemical functionalization, and the structural diversity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) and covalent […]
MOFs have come forth as one of the most promising next-generation crystalline porous material with exceptional structural, chemical and application diversity. Since their inception, MOFs have been developed and explored regarding their reticular tunability, physiochemical properties, and their benchmark performances toward various on-demand applications including gas adsorption/separation, heterogeneous catalysis, sensing, environmental remediation and so on. […]
The State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of NASU (Kharkiv, Ukraine) assigns the title of Honorary Doctor every year to two professors: one from Ukraine and one international, for their significant contributions to Ukrainian science. This year, I was honoured to receive the title of Honorary Doctor from the State Scientific Institution “Institute for […]
“It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.” Michael Faraday With this essence of scientific innovations and diversity, we are delighted and […]