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September - 2024

We are excited to join WISE - Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability.

We will recruit a postdoc to work on defect engineering in MOFs for water remediation aided by advanced electron microscopy based characterization.

wise-materials.org



August - 2024

Great to see our work in collaboration with NUS, Singapore, and SYSU, China, published in Nature Synthesis. This project illustrates the synergy of advanced characterisation and novel synthesis strategies to obtain new nanoporous materials.

Hierarchical assembly of tubular frameworks driven by covalent and coordinate bonding
Nature Synthesis 2024
DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00632-3



July - 2024

Tom Vaillant presented his project work on the use of scanning electron diffraction to study the ordering of cellulose in oat husk.

Great progress on coding, data analysis and colourful orientation maps after three months in the group.



May - 2024

Sofia Garcia defended her 45 credits Master's thesis in our group with the thesis "Removal of Metal Water Contaminants by an Ellagate-Metal-Organic Framework".

Her work has provided us with new understanding of how our ellagate-based MOFs can be used to capture metal ion contaminants from real water samples.



May - 2024

Our work on the use of scanning electron diffraction to study the hierarchical ordering of cellulose in a bio-based hybrid material is now published in Small Methods.

The Nanoscale Ordering of Cellulose in a Hierarchically Structured Hybrid Material Revealed Using Scanning Electron Diffraction
Small Methods 2024
DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202301304



April - 2024

We are happy to be part of Stockholm University student recruitment campaign and decorate metro stations around Stockholm.

We develop new ways to remove toxic waste from our waters



December - 2023

We are happy to join the MSCA Doctoral Network NanoRAM (HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN). NanoRAM brings together people and organisations from across the world to train a new generation of scientists in the development and application of newly developed manipulation and characterisation nanotools in soft matter research.

http://nanoram-dn.com



June - 2023

Mathias was awarded Best Oral Presentation at the SCANDEM2023.

Wow.



June - 2023

In collaboration with the group of Ass. Prof. Mika Sipponen at Stockholm University we have shown how lignin nanoparticles can adapt the colors of the rainbow when arranged in ordered mesostructures.

Photonic crystals with rainbow colors by centrifugation-assisted assembly of colloidal lignin nanoparticles
Nature Communications 2023
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38819-5



April - 2023

We have developed a new zirconium ellagate MOF, SU-102, with promising properties for the uptake of contaminants of emerging concern, in this case pharmaceuticals.
Inspiring collaboration with Dr. Inge (Stockholm University), Dr. Horcajada (IMDEA, Madrid) and the Swedish Environmental Research Institute.

iDPC-STEM image of the zirconium ellagate MOF, SU-102, to the left.

Removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from effluent by a plant-based metal-organic framework
Nature Water 2023
DOI: 10.1038/s44221-023-00070-z



December - 2022

Tom Willhammar has been appointed Docent in Materials Chemistry at the Science Faculty at Stockholm University.



November - 2022

We are starting a new project with funding from Formas - A Swedish research council for sustainable development. The project will be building new understanding of water remediation from contaminants of emerging concern using electron microscopy.

Formas


July - 2022

We are presenting a detailed protocol for how to collect 3D ED data and carry out data processing in order to perform a structure determination in the latest issue of Nature Protocol.

Nature Protocols 2022
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-022-00720-8





April - 2022

Contributing with a Perspective Article to the latest issue of Science. We are providing our view on a stunning work using iDPC-STEM imaging to view the mechanism behind gas sorption and illuminating the flexibility of a zeolite framework.

An adsorbent with flexible nanoscopic pores
Science 2022, 6592, 457-458
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5434





April - 2022

Pepto-Bismol has relieved upset stomachs for more than a century, but the structure of the active ingredient remained unknown. Using iDPC-STEM and 3D ED we were able to reveal its molecular structure.

Structure of the active pharmaceutical ingredient bismuth subsalicylate
Nature Communications 2022, 13, 1984
DOI: 0.1038/s41467-022-29566-0


The work is highlighted by Nature magazine.
Long-sought structure of Pepto-Bismol decoded




January - 2022

A zeolitic nanotube was realized through a combination of targeted synthesis and high definition structure elucidation. The atomic structure of the nanotube was determined using aberration-corrected STEM imaging and is published in the latest issue of Science together with the groups of Prof. Nair and Prof. Jones at GeorgiaTech.

Single-walled zeolitic nanotubes
Science 2022, 375, 6576, 62-66
DOI: 10.1126/science.abg3793





September - 2021

Happy to contribute to this study on how large-scale simulations can be used to understand chemical synthesis. Nearly a million individual simulations were used to quantify how different templating molecules drive the selectivity in zeolite synthesis. This project together with Dr. Gomez-Bombarelli, MIT, and Dr. Moliner, ITQ, was published in Science.

A priori control of zeolite phase competition and intergrowth with high-throughput simulations
Science 2021, 374, 6565, 308-315
DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3350