Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Moonika Sari, our PhD student, spent nearly 18 months peering inside tiny liquid-metal droplets to observe how dissolved platinum grows into small crystals using high-energy X-ray micro-computed tomography, she accomplished this extraordinary feat
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Homogenization of Post-Transition Metal Alloys into High-Entropy-Like Nanoparticles
First author Dr Allioux
➡️New class of high-entropy nanoparticles based on post-transition metals, Ga, In, Sn, Zn, & Bi at core-level nanoscale homogenization at low-temperature
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents In this study, the changes to the crystallinity, microstructure, and spatial arrangement of intermetallic crystals within liquid metal droplets, due to the influence of environmental boundaries and solvent contents, were explored. Various metallic crystals inside the liquid metal bulk were...

Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

X-ray technique captures footage of crystals growing in liquid metal Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight into how these delicate crystals form and grow.

A powerful X-ray imaging technique has enabled direct observation of platinum crystal growth in liquid metal, offering new insights for material science and hydrogen production technologies. doi.org/hbcd76

Vat Photopolymerization of Liquid Metal Nanoparticle‐Integrated Hydrogels
A nice work led by Ruirui Qiao
First author Xumin Huang
Our recent work in Advanced Functional Materials
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I suppose

This pattern is common in orb weaver spiders

Congrats to #USYD’s Prof Kourosh Kalantar Zadeh, Prof Anita Ho-Baillie & Prof PJ Cullen, named in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List recognising the world’s most influential researchers. Sydney Analytical CRF looks forward to continued collaborations.

https://bit.ly/44jPSJk

If Altmetric stops nothing will really happen to papers

Altmetric is a sign of a powerful paper in the eye of the public. Like the citations which are generally considered the sign of scientific importance of a paper

They are intertwined - Altmetric is a sign of media attention and generally comes from a good quality media release : news 8 points, each twitter or Bluesky post 1 point,… - other time just because people like the work - so if many people re-tweet the attention to work (Altmetric) goes up

High Altmetric is generally useful for commercialisation and possibly enhanced public attention - Altmetric of >1000 for a few papers resulted in a few companies out of my lab

Sydney
17 November 2025

anecdotal evidence - more academics are joining everyday as bluesky is linked to Altmetric

seagulls like chicken nugget too - carnivores !

I still think seagulls are worse to deal with - at least magpies have little brains and can become friendly sometimes 🙂

Solar-powered water breakthrough?💧☀️
Researchers make liquid metal-polyphenol gel that absorbs nearly all sunlight, turning boiling seawater > fresh water w/ record efficiency. Backed by Sydney Microscopy & Microanalysis + Sydney Analytical, #USYD Core Research Facilities.
https://bit.ly/49ykGte

It’s interesting that such uses of dashboard displays are not only prohibited but also considered a serious driving offense now

A large St Andrew's cross spider (Argiope keyserlingi), a type of orb-weaver spider native to eastern Australia
The University of Sydney
7 November 2025

My friend once said “you are old when the number of reference letters you write for others is more than than the number of reference letters others write for you“

A marvellous jacaranda tree !
Victoria Park - next to the University of Sydney
3rd of November 2025

Those were different times

Brilliant

Rightly said: There are recurring issues in Hitchcock movies

National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide Botanical Garden

A very large size white cockatoo in the neighbourhood

My son’s vine of carnivorous plants (Nepenthes) with many dangling pitchers

Reflection!
Rockpool
South Coogee, Sydney

Morning bath !
Sydney, Australia
25 October, 2025

JAL service was the best in the 70s

Just brilliant