A paper is not complete without the story behind it... Take a look at our journey in the world of 1D carbon that led us to the Nature Chemistry publication! The story: pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~skeja/behin... The paper (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s41... The hashtags: #chemsky and a cheeky #PiSky

And it's finally online!

Nature Chemistry@natchem.nature.com · 2mo ago

Charge transport through linear carbon atomic chains #chemsky

Hokkaido Univ.-NIMS Joint Grad. School accepts applications for the NIMS Jr. program, with admission scheduled for October 2026. Deadline: April 24th. My research interests are the synthesis of π-liquids, π-gels, π-elastomers, and their applications in soft electronics. www.nims.go.jp/hokudai/en/

Preprint: Charge Transport through Linear Carbon Atomic Chains Vezzoli, Low et al. ChemRxiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Charge Transport through Linear Carbon Atomic Chains

The linear carbon allotrope carbyne has been predicted to display outstanding electrical and mechanical properties, but its preparation and characterisation are hindered by synthetic challenges. Whils...

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Metal Ion Independent Conductance Through Bis-chelated Metal Complex Molecular Wires based on a Bis(diphenylphosphino)aniline Derivative by Vezzoli, Sadeghi et al. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Gemma Solomon and I are looking for a postdoc to work across the two groups on modelling biological systems with a view to applications for quantum computing More details about the project including how to apply in the link below. Deadline April 9 2025 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

A postdoctoral position, funded by the Leverhulme Trust for up to 36 months, is available to join my group at the University of Edinburgh. The project focuses on biomimetic approaches to natural product synthesis. Deadline: 18th April 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Now published. Congratulations Jishan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PiSky

Solution-phase synthesis of Clar’s goblet and elucidation of its spin properties - Nature Chemistry

In 1972, Erich Clar envisioned Clar’s goblet, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon featuring two unpaired electrons that are spin-paired. However, synthesizing it in a solution phase remains challenging....

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This is pretty cool!

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Exploring Three-Atom-Thick Gold Structures as a Benchmark for Atomic-Scale Calibration of Break-Junction Systems: a preprint by Sabater et al. arxiv.org/abs/2503.00161

Stable Ferrocenium Molecular Wires Authors: Linlin Hou, Varshini Kumar, Munirah Alsaqer, Adam Larbi, Abdalghani Daaoub, Amit Sil, Stephen Moggach, Sara Sangtarash, Richard Nichols, Hatef Sadeghi, Paul Low, Andrea Vezzoli DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-24d4d

Some early morning sunshine before campus comes to life.. ☀️ Have a great Tuesday everyone! 💙

One week left to apply to join me, Will Sharratt, and Katarzyna Gurzarska-Comis as a postdoc at @livuninews.bsky.social and @livunisps.bsky.social! The successful applicant will be using Machine Learning to design granular microgels for accelerated bone healing. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLY766/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI-accelerated Microgel Design - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI-accelerated Microgel Design - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic ...

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Let’s start here with our last post from the other timeline: Many thanks to the Podlech group for letting us be part of this nice study: A Stable Carbon‐Centered Radical Showing Six Amphoteric Redox States. Now out in Chem Eur J. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Stable Carbon‐Centered Radical Showing Six Amphoteric Redox States

A fully conjugated system built by alternate fusion of four benzene and three cyclopentadiene rings is a further rare example of an air- and moisture-stable carbon-centered hydrocarbon radical. It wa...

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🚀 #PhD studentship available to work with me and Gabriella Pizzuto on the #digital transformation of chemical analysis for #sustainable materials development @livunisps.bsky.social in collaboration with @unileveruki.bsky.social, starting October 2025 🧪🤖 Deadline 30th April tinyurl.com/yf38kshs

Digital Transformation of Chemical Analysis for Sustainable Materials Development at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Digital Transformation of Chemical Analysis for Sustainable Materials Development at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

I've written a "behind the paper" column to celebrate the story and the people behind our paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., and discuss some little details we couldn't fit in the paper itself. It's here pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~skeja/behin...

Huge congratulations to Professor Brianna Heazlewood from our Department of Physics, who has been named a finalist in the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK—a first for the University of Liverpool! 👏 Read the full story ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/02/19/l...

Our last contribution: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... This is the result of a 3-years long "deep dive" into the statistics of time series, to try to understand the irreproducibility of flicker noise data in our field. We think we found out at least the two main reasons: 1/2

Digging through the (Statistical) Dirt: A Reproducible Method for Single-Molecule Flicker Noise Analysis

Flicker noise analysis has found widespread use in the molecular electronics community over the past 9 years. The noise power of the junctions and the value of its scaling exponent n provide informati...

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From the same issue of Angewandte, the latest from the Liverpool molecular electronics team. @smeraldo-alliance.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Single‐Molecule Mechanoresistivity by Intermetallic Bonding

A novel method to impart mechanoresistive behaviour to molecular junctions is described in this contribution, relying on metal-ion interactions between Au electrodes and the Pt(II) centre of cyclomet...

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The week's #ChemSci Pick of the Week reports the first planar π-extended arsinines! Check out "Dithienoarsinines: stable and planar π-extended arsabenzenes" by Hiroaki Imoto et al.. Read here for free: pubs.rsc.org/doi/10.1039/... #ChemSky 🧪

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Michael Booth@drmikebooth.bsky.social · 2y ago

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam (I give you 3 from the same band)

31 years ago, on December 10, 1993, the Doom game was released. I still remember how the graphics, sound, and gameplay blew me away. It was an incredible experience for me. 🥰 #gaming #doom

The doctoral fellowship program from Fundación La Caixa is open for applications. If you are interested in doing a PhD at IFIMAC, don’t hesitate to reach out. Check out the eligibility criteria carefully: fundacionlacaixa.org/documents/d/... . Application deadline: January 23rd. Please re-post.

One of the Liverpool Chemistry buildings is 73 years old today. Happy birthday 🎉🎉 28 November 1951 #chemsky

A question to understand if I'm doing my part for the #chemistry / #chemsky communities: how many manuscripts do you review per month? (apologies if this has been already asked / the discussion is ongoing, pls point me towards the relevant post if so).

Let's see if this place can bring some joy back into social media... I wasn't really using the old place anymore, so this migration at least gave me the last push I needed to close the account for good. Farewell blue bird turned angry letter.