Are there #MAXPhases with mixed elements on all three lattice sites? Find out in our latest publication in @pubs.acs.org Inorganic Chemistry! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #synthesis #carbonitrides #solidsolutions #ceramics #materials #chemsky #matsky

Synthesis of (V0.2Cr0.8)2(Ga0.5Ge0.5)(C0.6N0.4), a Triple-Site Solid Solution MAX Phase

MAX phases are an extremely versatile family of layered compounds that usually consist of an early to-mid transition metal (M-element), a main group element (mainly groups 13–15) or late transition me...

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Happy to see the NCCR Muoniverse funded! We will do research on all aspects of muon science! Very exciting news! www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/JE...

PSI Paul Scherrer Institut@psi.ch · 6mo ago

Research with muons at PSI is being further strengthened: President Parmelin has approved funding for the NCCR Muoniverse. The improvements will benefit research into quantum materials and superconductors, aid industrial applications, and even provide insights into art history and archaeology.

Featured in our Mixed-Anion Compounds collection: 🔓 #OpenAccess work by @oxchemmike.bsky.social and colleagues reporting the synthesis of iridium-containing oxyhydride phases via a reductive topochemical anion exchange. Read more here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @ox.ac.uk 🧪

Structure and magnetism of LaxSr2−xCo0.5Ir0.5O4−yHy (0 < x < 1) iridium-containing oxyhydride phases

Ruddlesden-Popper oxide phases in the LaxSr2−xCo0.5Ir0.5O4 (0 < x < 1) solid solution can be converted to the corresponding LaxSr2−xCo0.5Ir0.5O4−yHy oxyhydride phases, by topochemical reaction with…

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Architects of molecular cages win chemistry Nobel

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi honored for developing metal-organic frameworks

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Andddd it's now out in Advanced Materials! doi.org/10.1002/adma... Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7) #chemsky #matsky

Hydrogel‐Based Vat Photopolymerization of Ceramics and Metals with Low Shrinkages via Repeated Infusion Precipitation

This work introduces an in situ precipitation strategy for the hydrogel-based vat photopolymerization of architected ceramics and metals with reduced shrinkages and improved densities. Repeated infus...

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Daryl Yee@dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It took 6 months of review but this paper is finally accepted 😮‍💨🫡 It has changed / expanded so much since our first submission. Really excited to to show what we’ve done!

It gets earlier every year... Next Wednesday, join me and an expert panel to discuss who might win the 2025 #ChemNobel. Free to attend. Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Time: 2–3 PM ET Register here: lnkd.in/eD8cdWRS

It's 2025, almost 2026. If you're gonna use chatgpt to write your entire research statement, at least make sure the references are not 100% fake.

This is really scary - I always thought physics was safe. It would be huge loss to see physics departments close across the country. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds

Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

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The Federal Council wants to cut costs in the ERI sector despite widespread objections. Cuts of over 10 percent per year are planned for the SNSF over the next few years. Above all, this plan jeopardises the innovation potential and competitiveness of the Swiss economy. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...

The SNSF urges against cuts

In its statement on "Relief Package 27", the SNSF speaks out against the proposed annual cuts of 10 percent.

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The SCS Fall Meeting 2025 has just been kicked off. Ready for a full day of interesting exchanges on chemistry in 🇨🇭 and beyond. #fm25 @swisschemistry.bsky.social

PLEASE REPOST: We have a 4-year, fully funded PhD studentship focussed on using computational chemistry to find new and improved oxides for X-ray detection, to start in October 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project.... This is open only to UK nationals.

Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Two physicists from different disciplines met at a climate protest (as you do). They got to talking about their research (as you do). Within a year or so, they'd designed a new type of dark matter detector experiment (as you...wait, what?). First results here: 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-experi...

New experiment uses levitated magnets to search for dark matter – Physics World

Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring

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A number of authors have been caught including hidden prompts directed at any AI tools used to review their papers. 🧪☄️

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

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My lab’s next paper is out in JACS! Our electrode-orthogonal self-assembled layers can "self-heal" after degradation -- the key is a dynamic linkage we can molecularly tune! Hats off to Nico! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

We show how photoredox catalysis can bypass Kasha’s rule, enabling reactions from higher excited states. This work, led by the exceptional @bjoernpfund.bsky.social, offers new insights into photochemical reactivity. Published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org bit.ly/3IysmjX

Breaking Kasha’s Rule to Enable Higher Reactivity in Photoredox Catalysis

Nearly all photochemical transformations known to date follow Kasha’s rule, implying that reactions occur only from the lowest electronically excited state of a given spin multiplicity due to the fast...

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At the University of Geneva, we have an opening for an associate or full professor in theoretical and/or computational chemistry! Please spread the word. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

CP violation, baryons, mesons, neutrinos, oh my!

New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found

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I saw it firsthand at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

America’s Brain Drain Could Become the World’s Brain Gain

Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.

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Lmao, this graph shows the time of day physicists etc submit most to arXiv. Because it puts you first in the daily listings 😂 Interesting thread!

Richard Alexander@richardalexander.bsky.social · last yr.

This is 15+ years old now, but anecdotally it’s even worse now. Many (most?) people time their submissions to appear nearer the top of the daily listings. [The old submission deadline was 4pm Eastern time; it changed to 2pm a few years ago.] arxiv.org/abs/0907.4740

A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse

A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...

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Keep this in mind when everything we do has to be PURPOSE driven. This is not how innovation works. It is often about curiosity. It can be silly.

Das hier ist die vielleicht wichtigste und doch wohl wenigst beachtete Nachricht des Tages. Eine weitere planetare Grenze ist überschritten. Wie üblich ist das Paper eher vorsichtig formuliert. Deshalb hier deutlicher: man muss über komplexe Systeme nur eines wissen: Ohne sie ist alles aus. Für uns.

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed

In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea....

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🧪⚛️ There is a serious disagreement btw experiment and theory in understanding the ionization energy of a particularly excited state of helium. This is one to watch, though caution is always advised, as anomalies like this historically tend to go away. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-pr...

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

🧢 Aujourd'hui, les scientifiques peuvent jongler entre différentes casquettes dans la #société. La @scnat.ch a mis en place un site internet pour inviter à la réflexion sur les différents #rôles qu'ils et elles devraient jouer ➡️ sciencesnaturelles.ch/roles_of_sci... #Science

"Google Scholar is manipulatable... we analyze over 1.6 million Google Scholar profiles and identify instances of citation manipulation to boost an author’s citation metrics. In many cases, this was done through a previously undocumented practice of 'citation purchasing' "

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

We have two open PhD positions to start our new group at University of Geneva! If you are interested in organometallic chemistry, heterometallic complexes and mechanistic investigations, please contact me. Check more details here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

A big congratulations to Bettina Lotsch on receiving the 2025 Remsen Award from the ACS Maryland Section! 🏅 Honoring excellence in chemistry, Bettina will deliver the Remsen Lecture at Johns Hopkins next year. Well deserved! 👏 #Chemistry #RemsenAward #WomenInSTEM