D Bradshaw

Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry at Imperial College London An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry is available, as advertised on jobs.a...

🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.

Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning

🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)

#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc

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3D printable hydrogel inks with metal–organic frameworks for sustained small drug delivery in wound healing http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/TB/D5TB01433F

Dalton Transactions promotional graphic for MOFs: Three Decades of Design and Discovery themed collection with QR code.

📢ICYMI: We've launched our "MOFs: Three Decades of Design and Discovery" themed collection to celebrate the work of 2025 Nobel Laureates, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, and their co-workers on #MOFs🏅

Read it here👇
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#chemsky #NobelPrize 🧪

ball-and-stick and line structures of a porphyrin nanobelt

Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

4D Mapping of ZIF Biocomposites for High Protein Loading and Tunable Release Profiles https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202518940?af=R

I'm all good thanks Neil, just lazy....

My uber driver asked me this morning if I teach at the University, and I said yes, chemistry. He asked me what the most important discoveries were in chemistry, cue impromptu lecture on MOFs! He better not give me a 1 star passenger rating after all my outreach work today 😅

How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

Here it is! The full #LongRead feature article on this year's #ChemNobel - @robinson-julia.bsky.social managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday!

www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

Passionate about sustainable catalysis for synthesis? Three fully-funded (UK/home) PhD studentships in homogenous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals available at Bristol! Come and join the drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership collaboration between the University of Bristol, AstraZeneca and Labman.

The effect of plasma pre-treatment on the electrical resistance of MXene (Ti3C2Tx) coated fabrics The electronic (e-)textiles market is forecast to increase to a value of $11 billion in the coming decade with applications spanning industries from medical monitoring to personal thermal management. Achieving high-performance e-textiles requires conductive coatings that are continuous and well-adhered to fa

Can we develop high-performance electronic textiles in an environmentally-friendly way? This article explores the effect of plasma pre-treatment to improve the electrical properties of textile fabrics coated with MXene
@huddersfielduni.bsky.social

Interpenetrated dodecahedrons made out of lolly cubes and toothpicks

Stuart Battern standing in front of slide with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize winners on it in lecture theatre

Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem

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Absolutely 💯; fleeting, but I'll take it nonetheless 😊

Did this by eye today; filled the boat, checked it on the balance, and it was absolutely on the money, 181 mg! Thought yes, the old magic is still there, but the metal salt I weighed after was 700 mg over, so the balance (quite literally) was restored. The yin and yang of the synthetic MOF chemist 😵‍💫

#SundayCover: Chemical system control itself with a simple handshake! 🤝

The @pappasgroup.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de developed a new feedback mechanism for controlling non-equilibrium systems based on chirality.

Happy Sunday! 🪼

A coloring page for nobels in chemistry

Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)

A zirconium methacrylate oxocluster as precursor for the low-temperature synthesis of porous zirconium(IV) dicarboxylates The exchange of the monocarboxylate ligand of the zirconium methacrylate oxocluster Zr6O4(OH)4(OMc)12 (OMc = CH2 [[double bond, length as m-dash]] CH(CH3)COO) with dicarboxylic acids (trans,trans muco...

Here's my first MOF paper.💎
It was the first example of using a the premade Zr6 cluster, and we made fcu-MOFs (UiO-66 like) at room temperature.
I never stopped being amazed by #MOFs architecture since then and I definitely make nicer pictures too.
#chemistrynobel #chemnobel2025 #Nobelprize

Here’s one of those copper MOF crystals mounted on an x-ray diffraction loop sample holder:

You love to see it #chemsky #crystallography #dna

Images and names of fungi Parasol Deathcap Hoof fungus Bovine jack The flirt Purple-veiled slippery jack Cloudy clitobite Fly agaric Common stinkhorn

These are the new fungi I saw using Seek today. It reads just like a goth cocktail menu 🍹

Hierarchical Design of COFs via NHC-Grafting for Selective Gold Recovery from E-Waste: Experimental and MD Analyses http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c12234

Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines Coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are among the most prolific research areas of inorganic chemistry and crystal engineering in the last 15 years, and yet it still seems t...

🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...

Abstract submitted for MOF2026 🤞

This was pretty sick though

This was my first MOF paper, and the first paper I published with Omar and Fraser.
(I published a second first author paper with both of them in JACS the next year on CO2 sequestration)

I dined out on these papers for so long.

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My first MOF paper: I started my journey with a collection of papers, all under the umbrella of highly stable pyrazolate-based MOFs #mof #mofs #chemistrynobel #chemnobel2025 #nobelprize

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Chem’s October issue is online now! 💡

The cover for this month’s issue highlights the article, “Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet” by Pedersen and coworkers.

You can read this piece and so much more here: www.cell.com/chem/current

Development of a Cambridge Structural Database Subset: A Collection of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Past, Present, and Future We report the generation and characterization of the most complete collection of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) maintained and updated, for the first time, by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). To set up this subset, we asked the question “what is a MOF?” and implemented a number of “look-for-MOF” criteria embedded within a bespoke Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) Python API workflow to identify and extract information on 69 666 MOF materials. The CSD MOF subset is updated regularly with subsequent MOF additions to the CSD, bringing a unique record for all researchers working in the area of porous materials around the world, whether to perform high-throughput computational screening for materials discovery or to have a global view over the existing structures in a single resource. Using this resource, we then developed and used an array of computational tools to remove residual solvent molecules from the framework pores of all the MOFs identified and went on to analyze geometrical and physical properties of nondisordered structures.

A few years ago, when we started looking at how we could define a MOF, we implemented six arbitrary criteria (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....). Interestingly, according to these rules, we tracked down the very first structure that resembles a MOF from.. 1973! See: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a...

Unusual Adsorption Behavior on Metal−Organic Frameworks Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown adsorption behavior that is not observed in other microporous materials such as zeolites or activated carbons. This study used grand canonical Monte Carlo si...

I still think my first MOF paper was really interesting, and I learnt a lot. Even if not everyone liked the term unusual, it was, indeed, not something I expected (hence unusual, or novel, but not Nobel) pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...