The gea-MOFs article recently published in Nature Chemistry by the FMD3 research group has been selected to illustrate the Nature Chemistry August issue as front cover.

The FMD3 group is pleased to welcome Mr. Ali Alansari (research technician) and Sk. Md. Towsif Abtab (post-doctoral fellow)​​​

From February 23-25, KAUST’s Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials Center (AMPMC) hosted the AMPMC/KAUST Research Conference: Recent Developments in Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials for Energy, Environmental and Water Applications.

Tunable rare earth fcu-MOF platform: access to adsorption kinetics driven gas/vapor separations via pore size contraction D.-X. Xue, Y. Belmabkhout, O. Shekhah, H. Jiang, K. Adil, A.J. Cairns, and M. Eddaoudi J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (15), pp 5034–5040, (2015)

Versatile rare earth hexanuclear clusters for the design and synthesis of highly-connected ftw-MOFs R. Luebke, Y. Belmabkhout, Ł.J. Weselinski, A.J. Cairns, M. Alkordi, G. Norton, Ł. Wojtas, K. Adil . M. Eddaoudi Chem. Sci., 6, 4095-4102, (2015)

Quest for highly connected metal–organic framework platforms: rare-earth polynuclear clusters versatility meets net topology needs D. Alezi, A.M.P. Peedikakkal, Ł.J. Weseliński, V. Guillerm, Y. Belmabkhout, A.J. Cairns, Z. Chen, Ł. Wojtas, and M. Eddaoudi J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (16), pp 5421–5430, (2015)

A facile solvent-free synthesis route for the assembly of a highly CO2 selective and H2S tolerant NiSIFSIX metal–organic framework O. Shekhah, Y. Belmabkhout, K. Adil , P. M. Bhatt , A. J. Cairns, M. Eddaoudi Chem. Commun., 51, 13595-13598, (2015)

MOF crystal chemistry paving the way to gas storage needs: aluminum based soc-MOF for CH4, O2 and CO2 storage D. Alezi, Y. Belmabkhout, M. Suetin, P.M. Bhatt, L.J. Weselinski, V. Solovyeva, K. Adil, I. Spanopoulos, P.N. Trikalitis, A. Emwas, and M. Eddaoudi JACS, Article ASAP, (2015)

Ultra-tuning of the rare-earth fcu-MOF aperture size for selective molecular exclusion of branched paraffins A.H. Assen, Y. Belmabkhout, K. Adil, P.M. Bhatt, D.-X Xue, H. Jiang, M. Eddaoudi Angew. Chem. Ed. Int., (2015)

​​Reticular synthesis of HKUST-like tbo-MOFs with enhanced CH4 storage I. Spanopoulos, C. Tsangarakis, E. Klontzas, E. Tylianakis, G. Froudakis, K. Adil, Y. Belmabkhout, M. Eddaoudi, and P. N. Trikalitis J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 1568−1574, (2016)