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2026.06 Our paper "Crosslinking of Linear Polyimines into Aminal-Linked Porous Organic Polymers for C2 Hydrocarbon/Methane Separation" has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
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2026.06 Congratulations to Michelle for receiving a major research grant from ÅForsk Foundation for the project "Micropollutant Removal from Wastewater Using Sustainable and Functional Porous Organic Polymers".
📰 2026.04 We held a full-day group meeting and team-building activity at Akademihotellet.
📰 2026.02 Thomas Chinitor, an Erasmus exchange student from Ghent University, Belgium, joined the group. Thomas will stay with us for four months and work on the green synthesis of COFs. Welcome!
📰 2025.12 Prof. Wei Wang from Lanzhou University, China, visited our group and gave an invited talk on "Precise Covalent Assembly Across Length Scales: Strategies and Assessment"
📰 2025.11 Congratulations to Dr. Kasper Eliasson on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Many thanks to Prof. Rahul Banerjee for serving as the opponent and to committee members Sascha Ott, Wei Xia, and Erica Zeglio for their valuable contributions.
📰 2025.11 We organized a Symposium on Porous Organic Frameworks at Uppsala University. We enjoyed fantastic talks and inspiring discussions. We sincerely thank all speakers (Rahul Banerjee, Pascal Van Der Voort, Jiayin Yuan, Karl Börjesson, Sascha Ott, Catherine Aitchison, Gang Xu and Daniel Maspoch) and participants for making the event a great success!
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2025.11 We hosted Prof.
Rahul Banerjee (IISER Kolkata, India),
Prof.
Daniel Maspoch (ICN2, Spain), and
Prof.
Gang Xu (FJIRSM, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
for scientific visits and invited talks. We engaged in fruitful discussions on porous organic materials and future collaborations.
📰 2025.06 Chao was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured). Congratulations!
📰 2025.06 Chao received a three-year project grant of 1.9 MSEK from the ÅForsk Foundation.
📰 2025.06 Our former group member Dr. Shengyang Zhou, now a PI at Sichuan University, visited us at Ångström Laboratory.
📰 2025.06 Dr. Samson Afewerki completed his project with us. He will start a faculty position as Assistant Professor at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in August 2025. Congratulations!
📰 2025.06 We had a full-day group meeting and outdoor activity at Hammarskogs Herrgård. Very nice place!
📰 2025.03 Prof.
Félix Zamora
(Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) and Prof.
Pilar Amo-Ochoa
visited our group and delivered invited lectures on COFs and coordination polymers, respectively.
📰 2024.11 Xueying received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, a prestigious award granted by the Chinese government to Chinese doctoral students studying overseas. Congratulations!
📰 2024.11 Zixuan Ding joined the group as a PhD student. Zixuan obtained his master’s degree from KTH and will work on critical metal capture for his PhD project. He will be co-supervised by Prof. Maria Strömme, Prof. Jarosław Majka and Dr. Johan Gising. Welcome!
📰 2024.09 Prof.
Shengqian Ma
from the University of North Texas visited our group and delivered an invited talk on “Porous Organic Polymer Nanotraps for Metal Source Extraction from Water”.
📰 2024.08 Dr. Xueying Kong continued her research in the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!
📰 2024.07 Chao attended the MOF2024 conference in Singapore and gave a talk on the aqueous synthesis of COFs.
📰 2024.06 Dr. Samson Afewerki joined the group as a researcher. Samson obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Mid Sweden University and carried out postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will work on biobased porous organic polymers with us. Welcome!
📰 2024.05 Congratulations to Dr. Xueying Kong on successfully defending her PhD thesis. Many thanks to Prof. Arne Thomas for serving as the opponent, Prof. Jiayin Yuan, Prof. Karl Börjesson, and Prof. Emma Björk for serving as committee members, and Prof. Martin Sjödin for chairing the defense.
📰 2024.02 Dr. Michelle Åhlén joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!
📰 2024.02 Chao was appointed Docent in Engineering Science with Specialisation in Nanotechnology and Functional Materials.
📰 2023.11 Chao received a Starting Grant in Natural and Engineering Sciences of 4 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
📰 2023.11 Chao received a research grant of 4 MSEK for early-career researchers from Formas.
📰 2023.11 Chao received a project grant of 2 MSEK from Vinnova.
📰 2023.06 Chao received a project grant of 4 MSEK from the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten).