Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
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Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
@shuntokuda.bsky.social
PhD student in the Lotsch group @lotschgroup.bsky.social, MPI-FKF, Germany / Porous materials / Crystallography / Structural complexity
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5OUGkH0AAAAJ&hl=ja
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Today is a special day! I am very proud to announce that my first first-author paper on WaaFs is finally out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social !!! 🎊🎉

Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto!

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...
www.nature.com
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
We designed soft porous crystals based on flexible MOCs!! MircoED enables us to characterize two distinct activated phases of MOCs: one is flexible, and the other is rigid. Nice teamwork with Donglin, Javi @cabrelles497.bsky.social, and Jack!! Posted on @chemrxiv.org.

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Phase-Dependent Responsiveness in Soft Porous Crystals Assembled from Flexible Metal–Organic Cages
Soft porous crystals (SPCs) based on flexible metal–organic cages (MOCs) remain elusive due to challenges in preserving both dynamic behavior and crystallinity after desolvation. Here, we report an SP...
chemrxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Spot one substitutional defect
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography
Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures
Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...
pubs.rsc.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Celebrated the day 1 of my new hobby with this coolest framework
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it.

Commentary in @natnano.nature.com

#nanotechnology
September 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
Really happy to see this team effort out in Angew. Chem., where we used 3D electron diffraction to observe a metal-organic polyhedron-to-polymer transition, and observe the activated phase.

Big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting our work on this.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Metal‐Organic Polyhedron‐to‐Coordination Polymer Transition Revealed by 3D Electron Diffraction
Here, we show that 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) is an effective technique to observe structural transformations in porous metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), as well as for obtaining the structure of ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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!
September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Check out this Jiyeon’s beautiful work on the realization of quasiperiodicity with MOFs! 🎉🥳

Beautiful structure does not always have to come with periodicity, even with MOFs!
August 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
Just out in Nature Communications! @natcomms.nature.com

We dive into the quasiperiodicity of moiré 2D MOFs😉🔬

Grateful to Prof. W.Choe and our team, and to collaborators Prof. S.S. Park and Prof. J.Kim for their contributions.

Read the paper here👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62247-2
Isoreticular moiré metal-organic frameworks with quasiperiodicity - Nature Communications
Twisted bilayer metal-organic frameworks produce dodecagonal quasiperiodic moiré patterns with tunable length scales. Here the authors show that isoreticular ligand design enables control over aperiod...
doi.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My first beamtime at BESSY II MX14 were fantastic!! 💫
Huge thanks to the beamline scientists for the warm supports and of course to Stefano @stecanossa.bsky.social for the diffractive discussions as always!
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
August 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
Wrapped up 24 intense hours at BESSY II, lots of data, and a truly valuable experience. Huge thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social and @shuntokuda.bsky.social for the help, and to @simonkrause.bsky.social for all his support. Looking forward to data analysis 😊
August 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
cm stacked on pm
#BraggYourPattern
August 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
📢 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.
August 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
July 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Group outing in Ulm. Thrilled to have the team at our new home! #schwörmal
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You can find how strong our conjugation among the group members is in this picture 💪
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!
July 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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!
July 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
July 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If diamond is a huge molecule, are all the 2D COFs and MOFs WaaFs? 🧐
June 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Shun Tokuda / 徳田 駿
Our fruitful summer started with the #MOFschool2025 in Como 🏞️
Amelie gave a poster presentation, Shun got a prize for the Q&A sessions, and Sam hosted a lovely quiz night!
Our online attendees also enjoyed the top-notch talks 🤓
Huge thanks to the organisers for setting up this amazing school!!
June 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM