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Lotsch Group

@lotschgroup.bsky.social
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Student-run account. We synthesize nanomaterials 🧪 for energy storage, conversion and to understand the nano world🔋💡 Check us out: www.fkf.mpg.de/lotsch

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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our new paper led by Xue is now on JACS! We uncovered direct light-to-electron storage in a bipyridine-based covalent triazine framework (CTF) and utilized its controlled release of electrons for aqueous solar batteries and H2/H2O2 production in the dark 🔋⛽ doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How small can a robot be? 🤖🔬 Check out these microrobots! We prepared a nano-hybrid combining covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and magnetic nanoparticles which could be used for biomedical applications. Stay tuned for the upcoming publication 👀👀
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our Post-Docs Andrés, Stefan and Tigmansu and intern student Elsa visited the ICCC46 Conference in Odense Denmark with some great contributions. 🇩🇰 We also met former group member @kenichiendo.bsky.social and had an amazing full week of coordination chemistry. #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bettina and our PhD student Youngseon attended the Solid State Ionics 25 #SSI25 in Singapore. 🇸🇬 Bettina gave a plenary talk on 'Optoelectronics Meets Ionics: From Photo-intercalation to Solar Batteries' and Youngseon presented her poster on halide solid electrolytes. 🎉 #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Exciting week! 🇸🇪 Borja, Jihun, Xue, and Diego went to the 11th European Crystallographic School in Stockholm! It was an amazing opportunity to learn crystallography from scratch, straight from the top experts in the field. Excited to look at our beautiful crystal structures back in the lab! 👀
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Shun @shuntokuda.bsky.social , Perry, and Bibhuti @bbrath.bsky.social successfully survived the 24-hour experiments at the BESSY II 14.1 single-crystal beamline 💫💠 They are very excited about the many new structures upcoming!
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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Shout-outs to Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, director of the Nanochemistry department, on being elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! 🥳🥳🥳 Link to the full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/8992608/2026... @leopoldina.org @lotschgroup.bsky.social #Leopoldina
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Marcelo Malagutti presented on thermal diffuse scattering in nanocrystalline systems at the 19th European Powder Diffraction Conference and TOPAS workshop in Crans-Montana🇨🇭. The event sparked new collaborations to advancing powder diffraction tools for complex energy materials' analysis.🚀🧪
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As part of @crc1333.bsky.social, our PhD student Amelie attended the CataLysis Networking Conference 2026 in Weimar 🇩🇪, where she had the opportunity to network with 6 other CRCs/TRRs focused on catalysis and presented her poster on #COFs in #eCO2RR. #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It was a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Shuhei Furukawa (@furukawas.bsky.social) from Kyoto University for a fascinating talk on “Van der Waals Porous Solids.” He shared inspiring insights into metal-organic polyhedra and engaged in lively discussions with our group!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Bettina and our postdocs Xue, Bibhuti, and a PhD student Diego attended the MOF2026 conference in New Orleans🗽 Bettina gave a plenary lecture on redox conductivity and optoionics in molecular frameworks, and Xue, Bibhuti, and Diego presented their work on redox activity and crystallization of COFs
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Congratulations Jiyeon for your Humboldt Fellowship! We are proud of you! 👏👏👏
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Growing large crystals is often challenging, but always rewarding💠💠💠 Join us to admire these beautiful single crystals of ReO3, prepared by Lucas and others! 🤩😍
Optical microscopy picture of ReO3 crystals with a red metallic color and cubic shapes.
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our new Hot Paper 🔥 is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: co-first authors Lucas G. Balzat and Robert Calaminus use #BayesianOptimization to boost Li7SiPS8 ionic conductivity while lowering synthesis temperature and time. #SolidElectrolytes doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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Optimize Before You Synthesize—Enhancing the Ionic Conductivity of Li7SiPS8 Using Bayesian Optimization
Bayesian optimization was used to optimize the synthesis parameters of the solid electrolyte Li7SiPS8$\mathrm {Li}_7\mathrm {SiPS}_8$ in order to increase the ionic conductivity. After only 32 iterat...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thrilled to explore #SwissCAT + West Hub #EPFL 🤖 with @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social! Many thanks to Arun from #Bruker #Chemspeed for arranging & Stefano di Leone for the tour. Valuable insights for #AMDL & #SolBatCenter automation projects!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
On May 17th, 21 members of the MPI-FKF from 12 different nations participated as the FKF-Nanorunners team at the 33rd Stuttgart run 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ In the ranking of female runners, the team reached a respectable 15th (out of 122) rank, and in the ranking of male runners, the 27th (out of 180) position! 👏👏
Group photo of MPI-FKF nanorunners at the 33rd Stuttgart run.
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Last week, Lucas and Jakob visited the UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility at the University of Warwick for high-temperature #NMR measurements at their 850 MHz instrument. 🧪 Huge thanks to @panaceanmr.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙌 Stay tuned for the data to be published soon... #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Bettina presented our work on optoionics at the Swiss Chemical Society Spring Meeting 2026. A vibrant meeting in the beautiful town of Fribourg. Thanks to #swisschemicalsociety, Ali Coskun (@coskunlab.bsky.social) and colleagues for the great organization and for making this such a memorable event!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Felicitaciones a Bettina! Congratulations to Bettina for being awarded the Elhúyar-Goldschmidt award from the Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)! 🎉🥳🇪🇸
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚀 Our team was on the move, visiting #Analytica 2026 at #MesseMuenchen . 📍 A small delegation from @lotschgroup.bsky.social and @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social was exploring new technologies for #labs, #analytics and #automation .🧪🔬🦾 Who else was here? #chemsky #automation
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Bettina gave a talk at ISOCS-26 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (quimicas.ucm.es). An inspiring and memorable visit - thanks so much to Prof. Luis Sánchez Marín, the Dean Prof. Teresa Villalba Díaz, the entire faculty board, and all colleagues for their wonderful hospitality!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Impressive visit at EMAP @kit.edu! 🛠️ @lotschgroup.bsky.social, @map91.bsky.social & @fhi-mpg.bsky.social enjoyed exchanging on lab automation with Prof. Colsmann’s group. Inspiring infra built from scratch! Helpful for our AMDL & SolBat projects. 👏 #SolBatCenter #AMDL #KIT #automation
Photo of Christian Schneider (Lotsch group), Maximilian Plaß (Lotsch group), and Christian Kunkel (FHI-MPG) visiting KIT.
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Check out the secrets of our little copper "trees" from our recent publication in this piece by @e-conversion.bsky.social. 🌲🌲 #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Honored to contribute to the 15th anniversary collection of Chemical Science! 🎉 In our new commentary, we revisit our 2014 work and reflect on how COFs have evolved from early photocatalytic concepts to today’s advanced materials. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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A reflection on ‘A hydrazone-based covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen production’: teaching sponges new tricks
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a unique class of porous materials built entirely from organic building blocks. As such, COFs unite the tunability of molecules with the robustness and optoelect...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨 New in Angewandte Chemie: We report COF–CNT core–shell nanohybrids that dramatically improve catalytic site utilization in molecular catalysts for CO₂ electroreduction and unlock up to 100× higher TOF for CO production. ⚡️ Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #chemsky
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Covalent Organic Framework–Carbon Nanotube Core–Shell Nanohybrids for Enhanced Catalytic Site Utilization of Molecular Catalysts in CO2 Electroreduction
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Bonn, what a week! 📍 So glad we got to be part of the #HäKoConference2026 again this year — inspiring talks and amazing science. Already looking forward to next year! 🧪🤝✨ #chemsky
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Prof. Lotsch dives into Microstructure Design, Phase Engineering, and Synthesis Optimization in the Superionic Solid Electrolyte t-Li7SiPS8 at the 11th Munich Battery Discussions (MBD). A huge thanks to the TUM, e-conversion Cluster, Fraunhofer IGCV, and BMW Group for making it all possible!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our group members, Lucas Balzat and Sebastian Bette, joined the 34th annual meeting of the Crystallographic Society in Lübeck 🎉 They presented on phase transitions in lithium-tin based ion conductors and novel nickel-magnesium coordination polymers, investigated with in situ diffraction techniques 🧪
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Simon Krause @simonkrause.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Fare Well Party for @stecanossa.bsky.social in Stuttgart with @kenichiendo.bsky.social and @lotschgroup.bsky.social. Another good reason to visit Korea but you will be missed!!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We had the great pleasure of hosting our former Post-Doc, Vincent Lau, now an Assistant Professor in Taiwan!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Katherine Mirica (Dartmouth College, USA). She shared insights into her work by giving a talk on “Smart Membranes for Simultaneous Chemical Sensing, Filtration, and Detoxification” and engaged in lively discussions on sensing applications of MOFs and COFs.
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Four of our PhD students just organized the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School.🏛️ An entire week which brought together 50 young scientists in Berlin to explore where science can have an impact in the political sphere and how it can shape a more resilient future! 🌍 Congrats to them! 🎉
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
💡Bigger particles & less binder boost ionic conductivity!⚡Binder shapes conductivity more than particle size, and over‑compression damages performance. Smart microstructure design is needed for better batteries! 🔋
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Effect of Stack Pressure on the Microstructure and Ionic Conductivity of the Slurry‐Processed Solid Electrolyte Li7SiPS8
This study unlocks new insights into all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), revealing how stack pressure, binder content, and particle size influence the performance of slurry-processed tetragonal Li7${\...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We are very happy to announce our fresh paper on Cu-dendrites grown from CuAl-Layered Double Hydroxides for CO2 Reduction. The Cu-Al ratio in the LDHs allows us to tune the Cu-dendrite morphology and thereby the CO2 reduction product distribution: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Congratulations to Jiyeon on receiving the Elisabeth-Bauser Fellowship 🥳🎉 We are excited for all the great research coming up! www.fkf.mpg.de/8907326/2026...
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Winners of the 2026 Elisabeth Bauser Fellowship
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Our work is being featured in 10 Years of @pubs.acs.org ACS Energy Letters: 10 Topics that Defined the Decade! 🎉 Check it out ⬇️ pubs.acs.org/page/aelccp/...
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A Decade of Excellence in Energy Research
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We have a plan for the future 🚀 ... and we were very happy to share our vision with the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann and the Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts for the State of Baden-Württemberg Petra Olschowski during their visit last week - Thank you! 🏛️🤝🧪🇩🇪
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New paper alert🚨✨ Our recent work on redox conductivity in COF reminiscent of insulator-semiconductor switching (modulated by both electrical potential and light) behaviour is now published in JACS.✨ Open access paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚀In solid‑state batteries, size matters! Check out our study where we show that larger particles lead to faster lithium transport in solid electrolyte sheets!⚡ #chemsky #RSC #EESBatteries
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Effect of particle size on the slurry-based processability and conductivity of t-Li7SiPS8
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) promise higher energy and power densities and improved safety over lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) by using non-flammable solid electrolytes (SEs), with thiophosphate-ba...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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 🤩👏
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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 🤝🤝
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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!! 🥂🥂
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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 🥳👏👏
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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. ☀️🔧
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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.
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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...
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Jiyeon is now selected as an Early Career Board member of the IUCr journals! 👩‍🔬👏👏 We are proud of you!!!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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 😜!
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Lotsch Group @lotschgroup.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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! ☀️
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