Lotsch Group
@lotschgroup.bsky.social
Student-run account. We synthesize nanomaterials 🧪 for energy storage, conversion and to understand the nano world🔋💡
Check us out: https://www.fkf.mpg.de/lotsch
Check us out: https://www.fkf.mpg.de/lotsch
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@lotschgroup.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Our PhD student Lucas returned from a trip to Japan🎌🗾
He was a part of a delegation of Junior Experts invited by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to meet with Japanese scientists from academia and industry to discuss how next-generation batteries can help to reach future carbon neutrality 🤩👏
He was a part of a delegation of Junior Experts invited by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to meet with Japanese scientists from academia and industry to discuss how next-generation batteries can help to reach future carbon neutrality 🤩👏
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our PhD student Lucas returned from a trip to Japan🎌🗾
He was a part of a delegation of Junior Experts invited by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to meet with Japanese scientists from academia and industry to discuss how next-generation batteries can help to reach future carbon neutrality 🤩👏
He was a part of a delegation of Junior Experts invited by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to meet with Japanese scientists from academia and industry to discuss how next-generation batteries can help to reach future carbon neutrality 🤩👏
We aim for high-level research, so we decided to put ourselves at the highest altitude in Germany - the Zugspitze! 🏔️❄️☃️
This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝
This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We aim for high-level research, so we decided to put ourselves at the highest altitude in Germany - the Zugspitze! 🏔️❄️☃️
This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝
This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝
Bettina and Shun celebrated this year's Nobel prize for MOF with a commemorative symposium in Stockholm🎖️
It was full of interesting behind-the-scenes stories and fruitful discussions for the future development of the field. Cheers again for this amazing, welcoming MOF community!! 🥂🥂
It was full of interesting behind-the-scenes stories and fruitful discussions for the future development of the field. Cheers again for this amazing, welcoming MOF community!! 🥂🥂
End of my short trip in Stockholm for the Nobel week. It was a great opportunity to listen to the three legends’ behind stories in person. Fingers crossed that I have another chance to come back here.
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Bettina and Shun celebrated this year's Nobel prize for MOF with a commemorative symposium in Stockholm🎖️
It was full of interesting behind-the-scenes stories and fruitful discussions for the future development of the field. Cheers again for this amazing, welcoming MOF community!! 🥂🥂
It was full of interesting behind-the-scenes stories and fruitful discussions for the future development of the field. Cheers again for this amazing, welcoming MOF community!! 🥂🥂
Bettina gave the Remsen Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins. A wonderful opportunity to engage with colleagues at JH and the broader scientific community of the ACS Maryland Section. Thanks so much to Professors Thomas Kempa, Tyrel McQueen, and all colleagues for an inspiring day at JH!
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Bettina gave the Remsen Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins. A wonderful opportunity to engage with colleagues at JH and the broader scientific community of the ACS Maryland Section. Thanks so much to Professors Thomas Kempa, Tyrel McQueen, and all colleagues for an inspiring day at JH!
Bettina and Julia attended the "EMPOWER Women in MOFs and Beyond 2025" conference in Mexico! Bettina gave a plenary lecture on the charge- and mass transport in COFs, and Julia presented her recent work on the flexibility of the Ti-MOF NTU-9 🥳👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Bettina and Julia attended the "EMPOWER Women in MOFs and Beyond 2025" conference in Mexico! Bettina gave a plenary lecture on the charge- and mass transport in COFs, and Julia presented her recent work on the flexibility of the Ti-MOF NTU-9 🥳👏👏
After an inspiring visit to the 14th SolTech Conference 2025 in Bayreuth last month, Amelie, Diego, Martina, and Bugra were filled with energy and new ideas. The future of solar innovation looks bright. ☀️🔧
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
After an inspiring visit to the 14th SolTech Conference 2025 in Bayreuth last month, Amelie, Diego, Martina, and Bugra were filled with energy and new ideas. The future of solar innovation looks bright. ☀️🔧
Check out our new preprint on ion diffusion and (photo)redox conductivity in a COF by @bbrath.bsky.social and Bettina!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
We report the first observation of reversible switching from an insulating to semiconducting regime in COF triggered by both electrical potential and light.
doi.org/10.26434/che...
We report the first observation of reversible switching from an insulating to semiconducting regime in COF triggered by both electrical potential and light.
Ion Diffusion and (Photo)redox Conductivity in a Covalent Organic Framework
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as promising materials for energy-related applications, where precise control over charge and mass transport is critical, such as in electrocatalysis an...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Check out our new preprint on ion diffusion and (photo)redox conductivity in a COF by @bbrath.bsky.social and Bettina!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
We report the first observation of reversible switching from an insulating to semiconducting regime in COF triggered by both electrical potential and light.
doi.org/10.26434/che...
We report the first observation of reversible switching from an insulating to semiconducting regime in COF triggered by both electrical potential and light.
Last month, Julia, Youngseon, and Luca visited the annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE2025). They had a great time exploring new science and meeting old friends!
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Last month, Julia, Youngseon, and Luca visited the annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE2025). They had a great time exploring new science and meeting old friends!
Jiyeon is now selected as an Early Career Board member of the IUCr journals! 👩🔬👏👏 We are proud of you!!!
I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
(IUCr) Editors and Co-editors of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
journals.iucr.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jiyeon is now selected as an Early Career Board member of the IUCr journals! 👩🔬👏👏 We are proud of you!!!
Celebrating the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 with Omar Yaghi (and Ben Feringa, right as well as Berend Smit, left) at the Solvay Conference in Brussels 😜!
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Celebrating the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 with Omar Yaghi (and Ben Feringa, right as well as Berend Smit, left) at the Solvay Conference in Brussels 😜!
Sigrid just spent some time in Berlin, training as a bullying and conflict counselor—actively combating bullying and promoting a better working environment. Making the lab a safer and open space! ☀️
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sigrid just spent some time in Berlin, training as a bullying and conflict counselor—actively combating bullying and promoting a better working environment. Making the lab a safer and open space! ☀️
Yesterday, the FKF-Nanorunners team, including 16 runners from 10 different natios, took part at the AOK-Firmenlauf in Ludwigsburg. They a achieved a respectable 19th rank out of 142 mixed teams. ✨👟🏃
September 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yesterday, the FKF-Nanorunners team, including 16 runners from 10 different natios, took part at the AOK-Firmenlauf in Ludwigsburg. They a achieved a respectable 19th rank out of 142 mixed teams. ✨👟🏃
Luca attended the International Conference on Electrolysis 2025 in Freiburg, gaining valuable insights beyond catalyst development and deepening his understanding of the challenges of modern electrolyzer systems
#ICE2025
#ICE2025
September 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Luca attended the International Conference on Electrolysis 2025 in Freiburg, gaining valuable insights beyond catalyst development and deepening his understanding of the challenges of modern electrolyzer systems
#ICE2025
#ICE2025
Shun got a poster prize in the #ISAC-6 ! Congrats! 🥳🎉
I fully enjoyed the intense week in the 6th International School on Aperiodic Crystals at MPI-CPfS in Dresden! A chunk of minerals for my poster prize is a real treat for the painful learning curve I had in the 6D space of quasicrystals.
Huge thanks to the organizers for opening this amazing school!
Huge thanks to the organizers for opening this amazing school!
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Shun got a poster prize in the #ISAC-6 ! Congrats! 🥳🎉
On Sept 5–6, Sebastian Bette joined the 2nd ISMMF–2 Workshop (Tohoku Univ., Asst. Prof. Ryojun Toyoda), presenting on the crystal chemistry of carboxylate salts. The event featured international talks and a lecture by Nobel Laureate Ben L. Feringa. 👉 Info: www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/junior-resea...
September 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On Sept 5–6, Sebastian Bette joined the 2nd ISMMF–2 Workshop (Tohoku Univ., Asst. Prof. Ryojun Toyoda), presenting on the crystal chemistry of carboxylate salts. The event featured international talks and a lecture by Nobel Laureate Ben L. Feringa. 👉 Info: www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/junior-resea...
Check out our Chemical Science work led by Julia, showing the dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based MOF NTU-9!
Detailed structural analysis was the key to the findings 🧐
Congratulations Julia on your first paper! 🎉🎊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Detailed structural analysis was the key to the findings 🧐
Congratulations Julia on your first paper! 🎉🎊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents
Understanding the structural response of framework materials to external stimuli has been of great interest. However, little is known about the stimuli responsiveness of titanium-based metal–organic f...
pubs.rsc.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Check out our Chemical Science work led by Julia, showing the dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based MOF NTU-9!
Detailed structural analysis was the key to the findings 🧐
Congratulations Julia on your first paper! 🎉🎊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Detailed structural analysis was the key to the findings 🧐
Congratulations Julia on your first paper! 🎉🎊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Check out our new paper just published together with the Canepa group. 🎉📝
We took a deep dive into the crystal structure of Li4SiS4.🔍 This helped us investigate how mixing silicon with tin in Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4 affects the structure and ionic conductivity. 🧩
Check it out ⬇️
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
We took a deep dive into the crystal structure of Li4SiS4.🔍 This helped us investigate how mixing silicon with tin in Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4 affects the structure and ionic conductivity. 🧩
Check it out ⬇️
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Structure and Transport Properties in the Pseudobinary Phase System Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4
Thio-lithium superionic conductors (thio-LISICONs) are a family of promising solid electrolyte materials for potential applications in solid-state batteries. The orthorhombic polymorph of the thio-LIS...
pubs.acs.org
August 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Check out our new paper just published together with the Canepa group. 🎉📝
We took a deep dive into the crystal structure of Li4SiS4.🔍 This helped us investigate how mixing silicon with tin in Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4 affects the structure and ionic conductivity. 🧩
Check it out ⬇️
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
We took a deep dive into the crystal structure of Li4SiS4.🔍 This helped us investigate how mixing silicon with tin in Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4 affects the structure and ionic conductivity. 🧩
Check it out ⬇️
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Everyone needs Science, Science needs Everyone was our slogan at this years Pride! 🎉
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
August 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Everyone needs Science, Science needs Everyone was our slogan at this years Pride! 🎉
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
Reposted by Lotsch Group
📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents' by Bettina V. Lotsch, Sebastian Bette et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@lotschgroup.bsky.social.
'Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents' by Bettina V. Lotsch, Sebastian Bette et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@lotschgroup.bsky.social.
August 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents' by Bettina V. Lotsch, Sebastian Bette et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@lotschgroup.bsky.social.
'Dynamic breathing behaviour of the titanium-based metal–organic framework NTU-9 upon adsorption of water and organic solvents' by Bettina V. Lotsch, Sebastian Bette et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@lotschgroup.bsky.social.
Hot off the press 🔥🔥
Check out the latest paper from our collaboration with Dinnebier group: "Stabilization of the garnet lattice by silicon incorporation in polycrystalline Katoite".
Crystals, tweaks, and solid-state chemistry. 🪨💎🔒
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
#crystallography
Check out the latest paper from our collaboration with Dinnebier group: "Stabilization of the garnet lattice by silicon incorporation in polycrystalline Katoite".
Crystals, tweaks, and solid-state chemistry. 🪨💎🔒
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
#crystallography
Stabilization of the garnet lattice by silicon incorporation in polycrystalline Katoite
Polycrystalline single-phase bulk Hydrogrossulars (Ca3Al2(SiO4)3-x(OH)4x (0 ≤ x ≤ 3)) of various compositions were synthesized for the first time utilizing hydrothermal treatment at 200 °C of the phyl...
pubs.rsc.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hot off the press 🔥🔥
Check out the latest paper from our collaboration with Dinnebier group: "Stabilization of the garnet lattice by silicon incorporation in polycrystalline Katoite".
Crystals, tweaks, and solid-state chemistry. 🪨💎🔒
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
#crystallography
Check out the latest paper from our collaboration with Dinnebier group: "Stabilization of the garnet lattice by silicon incorporation in polycrystalline Katoite".
Crystals, tweaks, and solid-state chemistry. 🪨💎🔒
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
#crystallography
Look at our first group photo in 2025!
We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲
Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!
We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲
Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!
July 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Look at our first group photo in 2025!
We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲
Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!
We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲
Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!
New paper just dropped in JACS! 🧪
How does CALF-20 actually changes its bulk structure when exposed to CO₂ & H₂O? Thanks to in situ lab X-ray diffraction, you can now check our latest insights! 👇
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Chemsky
How does CALF-20 actually changes its bulk structure when exposed to CO₂ & H₂O? Thanks to in situ lab X-ray diffraction, you can now check our latest insights! 👇
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Chemsky
pubs.acs.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New paper just dropped in JACS! 🧪
How does CALF-20 actually changes its bulk structure when exposed to CO₂ & H₂O? Thanks to in situ lab X-ray diffraction, you can now check our latest insights! 👇
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Chemsky
How does CALF-20 actually changes its bulk structure when exposed to CO₂ & H₂O? Thanks to in situ lab X-ray diffraction, you can now check our latest insights! 👇
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Chemsky
Reposted by Lotsch Group
👏Congrats to Konni, Hannes and our colleagues from the @lotschgroup.bsky.social, whose paper "Predict before You Precipitate: Learning Templating Effects in Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Halides" is now online on Chem. Mater. @pubs.acs.org!👏
🔗Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
📝Paper digest: 👇
🔗Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
📝Paper digest: 👇
Predict before You Precipitate: Learning Templating Effects in Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Halides
Hybrid organic–inorganic (HOI) antimony and bismuth halides exhibit diverse structural features and have been studied intensely for their promising electronic and optical properties. There are well-ex...
pubs.acs.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
👏Congrats to Konni, Hannes and our colleagues from the @lotschgroup.bsky.social, whose paper "Predict before You Precipitate: Learning Templating Effects in Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Halides" is now online on Chem. Mater. @pubs.acs.org!👏
🔗Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
📝Paper digest: 👇
🔗Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
📝Paper digest: 👇
We delegated Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social to the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting🎖️👨🔬👩🔬
Huge thanks to @maxplanck.de for sponsoring his fruitful trip to Lindau, and the organizers for arranging this wonderful meeting!
#LINO25
Huge thanks to @maxplanck.de for sponsoring his fruitful trip to Lindau, and the organizers for arranging this wonderful meeting!
#LINO25
It was a great honor that I participated the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. It was a fully staffed week with great chemistry, exchange with people (including many from Japan!), and of course the great locations. I need a Nobel prize to come back here.
#LINO25
#LINO25
July 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We delegated Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social to the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting🎖️👨🔬👩🔬
Huge thanks to @maxplanck.de for sponsoring his fruitful trip to Lindau, and the organizers for arranging this wonderful meeting!
#LINO25
Huge thanks to @maxplanck.de for sponsoring his fruitful trip to Lindau, and the organizers for arranging this wonderful meeting!
#LINO25
Hot off the press 🎉🔥
Check out our newest work using machine learning to predict crystal structures of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides! 🤖🧪
#chemsky #chemistry #AI
Check out our newest work using machine learning to predict crystal structures of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides! 🤖🧪
#chemsky #chemistry #AI
Predict before you Precipitate! 🤖🧪 Excited to share our new work! We used machine learning to predict the crystal structure of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides. Great collaboration between our colleagues at @fhi-mpg.bsky.social and @lotschgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemsky
Predict before You Precipitate: Learning Templating Effects in Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Halides
Hybrid organic–inorganic (HOI) antimony and bismuth halides exhibit diverse structural features and have been studied intensely for their promising electronic and optical properties. There are well-ex...
pubs.acs.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press 🎉🔥
Check out our newest work using machine learning to predict crystal structures of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides! 🤖🧪
#chemsky #chemistry #AI
Check out our newest work using machine learning to predict crystal structures of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides! 🤖🧪
#chemsky #chemistry #AI