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The Functional 2D Materials Nature Conferences starts soon, hosted between Yonsei University and Nature Portfolio We have an exciting line of speakers in the program!

The Nature Conferences on 2D materials is being a lot of fun! Great talks and a lot of stimulating conversations and lab visits in Seoul. So many cool results and promising applications (and tasty food!)

On my holiday period visiting Seoul Tower and spotted MOFs 🤯 guess they’re really working

The same supercapacitor electrochemistry data was sent to 14 different laboratories, highlighting potential issues in performance reporting, and may help improve reproducibility A recent study led by Alexander Forse, Jamie Gittins, and Yuan Chen sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Having a New Year’s Eve clean out at the family home and found the pamphlets I received when I went to a Springer Nature Nature Portfolio career event back in 2017 as a PhD student - guess the idea stuck with me!

Big trouble in little China as ex A I Cooper group members reunite in Shanghai Shan Jiang

Nice to finally meet the Nature Portfolio editors in the Shanghai office who I’ve interacted a lot with over the last few years They definitely have a nicer place than our London and Tokyo offices, I mean look at that view! Even better at night…

Good to see my long time ex-A I Cooper group colleague and friend, nemoliu, in the other side of the world as a PI doing such interesting work! Porous organic cages lives ;)

Got my hands on some company goods! Every year, staff in the Springer Nature Shanghai office can get a plush of the current Chinese zodiac - luckily I came in the year of the dragon 🐉 thanks to my friend Jialiang Cai for getting it for me!

The #MOF2024 conference begins

The Kyoto/Kitagawa members/alumni dinner at #MOF2024

Fantastic talks by Jihye Park, Prof. Eddaoudi_FMD3, @OmarFarha5, The Long Group, Lotsch Group, Omar...-want to be split to attend all sessions!😭Thank you Jet Lee 🧑‍🔬 from Communications Materials for supporting MOF2024 and congratulations #WomeninMOFs - beauty and power😍!

Some questions keep me up at night but now I have the answer: How would a starfish wear trousers? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Enjoyed recently visiting my old Alma mater, Kyoto University, to give a talk for a joint Tongji-Kyoto U symposium. Catching up with familiar faces and reliving good times! Delayed post due to stressing and being stuck in Kyoto from the typhoon that Japan is currently experiencing🌀

Joining organic linkers by catenation Chem . The linkers were designed to form [2]catenates when they react. The largest poly[2]catenat(n)e ever made? congratulations Thirumurugan Prakasam Felipe Gándara Mark Anthony Olson Benyettou Farah mohamad el-roz cell.com/chem/abstract/…

I’m in China again but the first time for a conference and they do it on weekends which is hardcore Porous materials/MOFs again, with the odd molecule thrown in every now and then

The Meta AI research team demonstrates a tool for speech-to-speech and translation of up to 100 languages, and can translate directly between non-English languages nature.com/articles/s4158…

An important talk by Magdalena Skipper nature on empowering women in the current research landscape and a chat with the editors in our Tokyo office Nature Portfolio Springer Nature