Tim Schmidt
@schmidtim.bsky.social
Just a boy who loves shooting molecules with lasers
Sad to report the untimely passing of friend and colleague Klaas Nauta. He'd been out of touch for a while, but it's incredibly sad he's left the party for the last time. I don't have all the answers, but feel free to email/DM.
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The Kiewa Valley and Bogong is putting on a show this morning.
I’ve been elected to the academy! Congrats to the other newly minted FAAs.
Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion - Nature Photonics
An absolute photon upconversion efficiency of 8.2% is demonstrated using a liquid triplet fusion medium that behaves as solid on excitonic timescales. The findings may drive higher efficiencies in nan...
nature.com
Wonderful to host Mark Wilson from U. Toronto. Crossed the “big pond” today hi.
This is bloody entertaining cricket but ripping through these Test matches so quickly is really ruining one of the most reliably comforting parts of summer (knowing you can fall asleep on the couch, full of ham and carbs, then wake up without having missed too much) #Ashes
At UNSW, we’ve been looking into sunscreens. theconversation.com/mineral-vs-c... @jonbeves.bsky.social + Anna Wang. Also thanks to Thilini Ishwara.
Mineral vs chemical sunscreens? Science shows the difference is smaller than you think
New analysis shows one in three ‘mineral-only’ sunscreens contain UV-absorbing chemicals.
theconversation.com
I have a great sense of pride when I walk past this plaque.
Hopefully we can make this work! www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
Bright futures: UNSW scientists advance solar efficiency
UNSW researchers are working towards a new generation of solar technology that could make sunlight work smarter – by turning one particle of light into two packets of energy.
unsw.edu.au
It’s a great story. Ted Irving failed his PhD at Cambridge but the Australian National University gave him a job anyway and he ended up with a stellar career. Cambridge later gave him a DSc.
If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.
Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem
