Beautiful coda to beautiful work! Our study on nanocrystal superlattices in ACS Nano was featured on one of the covers @pubs.acs.org #MyACSCover Link to the paper (open access): pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Dmitry Baranov
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Assistant Professor in Chemical Physics at Lund University, co-organizer NiNC, Early Career Board Nano Letters, interested in self-assembly and collective phenomena, he/him Web: dbaranov.com Work: www.chemphys.lu.se ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-8132
Check out this article collection from Journal of Chemical Education, which illustrates how #MOFs have been integrated into classrooms and labs at various educational levels. Explore now: buff.ly/RMOElHU
Week 51, ooof its been a while, busy end of the year! Lots of interesting papers came out in Nano Letters in the meantime. Here are a couple of highlights @pubs.acs.org #NanoLettBoardPick
Week 45, another couple of highlights from Nano Letters: an interesting photophysics study on molecular sensitization of lanthanide-doped (Yb,Er in NaYF4) core-shell nanoparticles and nanoprobe X-ray diffraction of ferroelectric domains in oxide perovskite BiFeO3 @pubs.acs.org #NanoLettBoardPick
Happy travelers from Lund arrived to Valencia for @nanoge.org MATSUS25 Fall meeting. Amazing weather +26 ☀️ Lots of exciting science ahead!
Nice perspective on the SynLlama paper by @thglab.bsky.social and coworkers recently published in ACS Cent Sci!
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 10mo agoAn LLM-based chemical compound generator prompts some thoughts about what these might be good for:
Nice editorial from @natrevmats.nature.com, made me think about the sustainability of research at a single lab level and broader community; looking forward to learn more from the materials circularity series. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The materials we make don’t just go ‘away’ - Nature Reviews Materials
Materials researchers are trained to innovate and create. But now that it is clear the world has too much stuff, what is the path forward?
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Week 41, a couple of curious single-photon emitter studies appeared in a short timespan. One on circularly polarized single photons from Eu complex conjugated with gold helicoids, and another on good old fullerene as a single photon emitter. Check them out. @pubs.acs.org #NanoLettBoardPick
🧪⚛️ Now with blog link goodness: ACS Webinar about plasmonics and "Illuminating the Nano Frontier" this coming Thursday. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/10/acs-...
ACS National Nanotechnology Day webinar, Thursday Oct 9
Time for a rare bit of explicit self-promotion on this blog. This coming Thursday, October 9, as part of the American Chemical Society 's a...
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Week 39, the two highlights are the laser sculpting of nanoparticle-DNA assemblies and measuring nanocrystal rotations with correlated X-ray scattering @pubs.acs.org #NanoLettBoardPick
Friends! I’ll edit a special issue spotlighting queer researchers in porphyrin science – broadly defined – to be published in about a year. Queer PIs, students and postdocs and allies are all welcome! I am not free to reveal much more now until I have a rough headcount. Who’s in? Please repost! 🏳️🌈
So relatable. What are "knowing things is hard" and "checking is a practice" if not the beliefs and ideals of scientists, too? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
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In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:
Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.
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Welcome to Bluesky, Quinten! @q-akkerman.bsky.social!
Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Credible is in - Communications Psychology
Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.
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Week 35, the two highlights are editorials: the first is the Nano Letters roadmap for the next 25 years of nanotechnology, and the second is an introduction to the Early Career Board, through which I am excited to support this outstanding journal. @pubs.acs.org #NanoLettBoardPick
A couple of things I've learned this week are that one can measure the net charge of single quantum dots by a combination of fluorescence microscopy and electrophoresis, and that acoustic phonons are size-dependent in perovskite quantum dots in glass. #NanoLettBoardPick
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As part of the Early Career Board of Nano Letters, I’ll be occasionally sharing papers I enjoyed reading. This week, two single-nanocrystal studies caught my eye. One on flat PbSe nanocrystals of discrete thicknesses, and another on magic-sized CdSe clusters. #NanoLettBoardPick
My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue. It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
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Insightful about hidden complexity and multidimensional space of editorial decisions
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.Why I didn't retract this paper when I was Editor-in-Chief at Science (THREAD 🧵)
Elemental doesn’t mean simple, quite the opposite. A couple of recent studies from Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org report mid-infrared photoluminescence and electronic striped phase in elemental tellurium. (Photo: images-of-elements.com/tellurium.php)
Fellow supercrystal makers from the University of Tübingen have achieved robust supercrystals that don’t break easily and can be picked up with microscopic tweezers. 💎🔨🤩 ⚗️ Happy to have contributed supercrystals for comparison. Congratulations to the whole team! 🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Mechanically Robust Supercrystals from Antisolvent-Induced Assembly of Perovskite Nanocrystals
Ordered arrays of nanocrystals, called supercrystals, have attracted significant attention owing to the collective quantum effects arising from the coupling between neighboring nanocrystals. In particular, lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are widely used because of the combination of the optical properties and faceted cubic shape, which enables the formation of highly ordered supercrystals. The most frequently used method for the fabrication of perovskite supercrystals is based on the self-assembly of nanocrystals from solution via slow evaporation of the solvent. However, the supercrystals produced with this technique grow in random positions on the substrate. Moreover, they are mechanically soft due to the presence of organic ligands around the individual nanocrystals. Therefore, such supercrystals cannot be easily manipulated with microgrippers, which hinders their use in applications. In this work, we synthesize mechanically robust supercrystals built from cubic lead halide perovskite nanocrystals by a two-layer phase diffusion self-assembly with acetonitrile as the antisolvent. This method yields highly faceted thick supercrystals, which are robust enough to be picked up and relocated by microgrippers. We employed X-ray nanodiffraction together with high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy to reveal the structure of CsPbBr3, CsPbBr2Cl, and CsPbCl3 supercrystals assembled using the two-layer phase diffusion technique and explain their unusual mechanical robustness. Our findings are crucial for further experiments and applications in which supercrystals need to be placed in a precise location, for example, between the electrodes in an electro-optical modulator.
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Hey folks! 🦄 The Nanochemistry and Spectroscopy Group at Lund University is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to help us push forward our studies on collective phenomena in nanomaterials: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Post-doctoral researcher in nanochemistry and spectroscopy
Subject description The Nanochemistry and Spectroscopy group (https://www.chemphys.lu.se/research/groups/baranov-group/) at the Division of Chemical Physics is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to st
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Nanoge Conferences@nanoge.org · last yr.🟣Delve at The Materials for Sustainable Development #MATSUS25 @nanoGe_Conf in the design,fabrication & understanding of nanomaterials with emergent structural,electronic & optical properties 📍València, Spain 🗓️20-24 October 2025 🔗Send an oral abstract:https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home
An outstanding 2-photon vs 1-photon absorption thriller: Mechanistic Insights: Correspondence on “Tuning Co‐Operative Energy Transfer in Copper(I) Complexes Using Two‐Photon Absorbing Diimine‐Based Ligand Sensitizers” - Moghtader - AChIE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Mechanistic Insights: Correspondence on “Tuning Co‐Operative Energy Transfer in Copper(I) Complexes Using Two‐Photon Absorbing Diimine‐Based Ligand Sensitizers”
One photon or two photons, that is the question. A closer look at the recently presented photosensitizer [Cu(bathocupSANI)2]BF4 revealed that a single red/NIR photon per catalytic turnover is suffici...
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