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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Presentations from our group at ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago! Check it out if you are here!

Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Great to visit iCeMS at Kyoto University and be a part of the Kitagawa-Furukawa Group Seminar with 3 talks in series, including talks from Vincent and Hyunho! Thank Shuhei @furukawas.bsky.social and Kenichi for organizing such an amazing event with enriched discussion!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Great to visit Department of Applied Chemistry at Tohoku University, Japan. Thank Rie for the warm hospitality hosting my visit and seminar!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Congratulations to all students graduating this year! July is the graduation season for graduate students in Taiwan. Serving as examination committee members in 15 master and 1 PhD defenses this year, I just finished the last one. Looking forward to the upcoming travel at Sendai and Kyoto!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Master-thesis defense day of our group this year! Congratulations to Ya-Mei, Chi-Lun, and Yu-Chi on passing their master defenses (with each of them having one 1st-author published work)! It's right before a big typhoon comes, causing a day off for almost the entire Taiwan tomorrow.

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our group at Taiwan International Conference on Catalysis 2026 (TICC 2026)! Congratulations to Cheng-Yan on receiving honorable mention oral presentation award & Yu-Chi on receiving the best poster award!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our master student Yin-Chu's work shows that MOF thin films with large mesopores can facilitate the mass transfer near the electrode, thus enhancing the performance in electrochemical dopamine sensing! It is just out in ACS Appl. Nano Mater.! doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Graduation season & Group photo time! Congratulations to Yu-Chi, Chi-Lun, and Ya-Mei on graduating from master program! Also congratulations to our undergraduates, Hsin-Hsiang, Ruo-Yu, Jia-Rui, and Yi-Te, on receiving Bachelor's degree and becoming master students in our group!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We show that nanocomposites with redox-active MOPs & polyaniline perform better in supercapacitors than both pristine materials! Good to see this collaboration with @furukawas.bsky.social is out, in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces! doi.org/10.1021/acsa... Great work by Yan-Ling & Tayier!

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In Situ Polymerized Polyaniline in Redox-Active Metal–Organic Polyhedra for Supercapacitors

The introduction of porosity into polyaniline (PANI) is key for enhancing its capacitive performance because both electrons and counterions need to migrate through the whole material during the charge...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Our student Cheng-Yan's work studied stability of Zr-MOF-808 in 18 buffer/unbuffered aqueous solutions, guiding the rational selection of buffer/electrolyte for Zr-MOFs: doi.org/10.1002/ijch... It's in special collection of Isr. J. Chem., honoring Prof. Yaghi's Nobel Prize & 60th birthday!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It was really fun to enjoy good science and meet many friends in MOF2026, and it's my pleasure to present the recent work from our group! Leaving NOLA today and looking forward to seeing you all in Como (2027) and Seoul (2028)!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Dinner after the full day 1 of the main conference of MOF2026!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Presentations from our group at MOF2026 in NOLA! Check it out if you are here!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

On the way to New Orleans and looking forward to seeing all friends in MOF2026!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Good to see all friends at MRS Spring@Honolulu! Back to Taiwan now!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you are in Hawaii for MRS Spring, feel free to join the MOF symposium starting from tomorrow with 23 talks!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Thank Natalia and the group for the warm hospitality hosting my visit at South Carolina! Great discussions and tours! Heading to MRS Spring now and looking forward to meeting friends at Honolulu!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great to visit University of Central Florida and have exciting discussions! Thank Fernando for hosting!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

2-week travel in US just started! I will visit U. Central Florida on April 21, U. South Carolina on April 23, and join the SF08 MOF symposium at MRS Spring in Honolulu! Looking forward to meeting friends soon!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In our collaborative work led by Cheng-Liang Liu's group at NTU, Taiwan, 2D Zr-MOF was used to immobilize N719 (old friend of DSSC), and the sensitized MOF can act as additive to boost photothermoelectric performance! It's just out in ACS Nano! doi.org/10.1021/acsn...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Submission deadline extended to April 10! (13 days left) Join the MOF symposium at 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary on Oct. 25-29, 2026! Submit your abstracts for oral/poster presentations here: ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Feel free to share!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

10 days left to submit your abstracts to the MOF symposium at 250th ECS Meeting! ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Join us at Calgary this October!

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Call for Papers

Call for Papers: 250th ECS Meeting (October 25-29, 2026)

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As an advisory board member, it is a great honor to receive this recognition from Chemical Society Reviews! @chemsocrev.rsc.org

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Our group at 2026 Chemistry National Meeting of Taiwan!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Our master student Ya-Mei's work shows that charged ligands coordinated on luminescent 2D Zr-MOF sheets can "concentrate" ionic species with opposite charge and effectively boost the ion-sensing performance. It is just out in Chem. Commun.! @chemcomm.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/D6CC...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The 4th MOF symposium in ECS Meetings will be held at the 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary, Canada, on Oct. 25-29, 2026! Join us and submit abstracts for oral/poster presentations here, by March 27: ecs.confex.com/ecs/250/cfp.... Feel free to share!

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MOF2026 @mof2026.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Don’t miss your chance to join researchers and innovators from around the world in New Orleans this May for #MOF2026 Register now and be part of the future of MOFs! 👉 Register todayhttps://na.eventscloud.com/website/86715/home/ #MaterialsScience #MetalOrganicsFramework

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Chemical grafting is not always better! Our master student Chi-Lun's work shows that by physically blending a small amount of GO with 2D Zr-MOF sheets, an ultrahigh proton conductivity can be achieved. It is just out in Dalton Transactions! doi.org/10.1039/D5DT...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

2025 Group year-end party & the white elephant gift exchange!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Good to meet old friends in Taipei at AsCA2025!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Our group at 2025 TwIChE Annual Meeting! Congratulations to Ya-Mei on winning the excellent poster award, Tsan-Yu, Hsin-Ya and Yu-Chi on winning the honorable mention oral presentation awards, and Chi-Lun on winning the honorable mention poster award!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

2025 TwIChE Annual Meeting! It is my pleasure to receive the Academy Encouraged Award of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Before the end of the trip in Korea this time, it was great to have visits at Chung-Ang University and Ewha Womans University! Thank Sol, Hoi Ri, and Jaewoong for the warm hosting!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Editorial on the special issue for MOF2024 in CCR: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... It's our pleasure to be contributing authors of one of the articles!

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Special Issue for the 9th International Conference on Metal–Organic Frameworks and Open Framework Compounds (MOF2024)

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Great visits at Kyungpook National University, Korea University and KAIST over the past 3 days! Thank Minyoung, Chang Seop and Minju for warm hosting, and good to initiate new ideas for further collaborations! Looking forward to 2 more visits in Seoul next week!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Visits in Korea start! 11/12 (Wed.) Seminar@ Kyungpook National Univ. (ChemE) 11/13 (Thur.) Seminar@ Korea Univ. (Chem) 11/14 (Fri.) Seminar@ KAIST (CBE) 11/17 (Mon.) Seminar@ Chung-Ang Univ. (ChemE) 11/18 (Tue.) Seminar@ Ewha Womans Univ. (Chem) Looking forward to meeting friends soon!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Eight months after submitting the package, finally, I just received the official announcement for being promoted as full professor!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Prof. Joseph Hupp's visit in our department at NCKU! It is very nice to have Joe here for the seminar lecture, individual meetings with several our faculty members, and group meeting with our group members!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Power of large pores in MOFs! In our latest work by our student Tsan-Yu, aniline was polymerized in Zr-MOFs with large mesopores, small mesopores, and only micropores. PANI@large mesoporous MOF shows the best rate capability! Check it in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces: doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In our student Hsin-Ya's work, we reported the first example of Zr-MOF initiator for polymerization to make a conducting polymer! 2D MOF-dispersed PPy can be synthesized for electrochemical sensing. It is just out in ACS Applied Nano Materials: doi.org/10.1021/acsa... #OpenAccess

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Enjoying EuroMOF 2025 at Crete! It was really fun time to meet so many friends!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Arriving at Greece! Looking forward to seeing friends at EuroMOF @euromof.bsky.social tomorrow at Crete!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Nice to meet so many friends with enriched discussions at GRC Nanoporous Materials!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Great visit and enjoyable discussions at Dartmouth! Thank Katherine and the Mirica Group for the warm hosting, and it's my pleasure to serve as the external examiner for the defense of Dr. Cline! Looking forward to meeting friends at GRC Nanoporous Materials next week!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Our master student Yu-Chi's work, showing that halogen atoms on linkers of defective UiO-66 can facilitate electrocatalytic oxygen evolution (OER) occurring on neighboring installed iridium sites, is out in CrystEngComm! doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Farewell & welcome party of the group in 2025! Congratulations to 5 master & 1 PhD students on (going to) graduate this Summer, and congratulations to Kuan-Chu on starting the new journey as PhD student in ChemE at Rice!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Really enjoying AMIC 2025 in Singapore! In addition to talks and discussions, it is also great to show the power of Karaoke from Taiwan (in the banquet)!

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Chung-Wei Kung @cwkung.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Attending Applied Materials & Interfaces Conference (AMIC) in Singapore! Great to meet old and new friends!

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