SSPC Award for collaboration with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Laureate!

We are delighted to share that our group’s collaborative work in MOFs and porous materials has been recognised through the SSPC Academic Collaboration Award. This award honours the long-standing partnership with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Professor Susumu Kitagawa, and was presented to our group leader Prof. Matthias Vandichel, alongside Prof. Michael Zaworotko and Prof. Soumya Mukherjee.

This recognition celebrates our combined experimental–computational strengths that continue to drive innovation in MOF science and crystal engineering. As part of this collaboration, the MACATAMO group contributed advanced hybrid computational modelling frameworks to investigate gas sorption behaviour and structural flexibility in MOFs, providing the computational insights that complement the experimental breakthroughs within this collaboration.

Special congratulations to our group member, Dr. Sousa JavanNikkhah, for her significant contributions to the hybrid computational methodologies highlighted in these studies.

Cover Art Feature Alert!

Our recent review on MOFs and COFs  based single atom catalysts for valorisation of CO₂, has been featured as a cover art in  RSC Energy and Environmental Science.

Huge congratulations to Umer and all the co-author for this stunning image!

 

SSPC Modelling Spotlight!

Our collaborative work on MOFs with Zaworotko Group, combining experiment and theory , has been featured in the SSPC Modelling Spotlight. In particular, our recent paper highlights a flexible MOF as a dual-purpose water vapor sorbent, where we applied advanced modelling approaches such as DFT and hybrid GCMC/MD simulations using our in-house code.

 

Autumn Ceremony - 2025

We proudly congratulate Dr. Lipin on his graduation!

27 August 2025

 

Best Poster at the ICI Annual Congress

Congrats Lipin, on winning the Best Poster Prize at the ICI Annual Congress on Electrochemical Horizons, held on 4 June 2025 at Trinity College Dublin!

 

Cover Art Feature Alert!

We’re thrilled to share that our recent review on Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) Modeling, led by Dr. Sousa JavanNikkhah, has been featured as the cover art in WIREs Computational Molecular Science!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Sousa for this beautiful art!

 

Spotlight on Us in Silicon Republic: A Major Leap for Green Hydrogen

Check out our feature in Silicon Republic! Our HERMES team at UL—Prof. Matthias Vandichel, Dr. Apinya Ngoipala, and Dr. Sousa Javan Nikkhah—have shown that palladium-hydride can match platinum’s performance as an electrocatalyst, offering a cheaper, scalable route to green hydrogen. This breakthrough in understanding palladium–hydrogen interactions paves the way for next-generation catalysts and brings us one step closer to a net-zero future.

Congrats to the entire HERMES collaborators on the recent Advanced Materials paper exploring this!

Read more on Silicon Republic!

 

Cover Art Alert!

Our collaborative work with Prof. Soumya’s group on ionic ultramicroporous polymers has been featured as cover art in Chemical Communications!

Huge congratulations to Sousa, Matthias, and all co-authors on this exciting recognition!

Check out the full paper here

 

Celebrating our newest Dr.!

Congratulations, Dr. Lipin We’re so proud of your achievement — and excited for all that’s ahead.

21 March 2025

 

Group Picture - March 2025

 

Winter Ceremony - 2025

We proudly congratulate Dr. Apinya on her graduation!

20 January 2025