Alex Groves

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I am attending the #F25MRS this week in Boston. Send me an email is you would like to meet up to discuss potential submissions or learn more about the journal! @materials-mrs.bsky.social

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Synthesis Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Synthesis Organization: Nature Portfolio Locations: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai or Beijing - Hybrid Working Model Application Deadline: August 20th, 2025 ...

We’re hiring!

Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an Associate or Senior Editor with experience in synthetic chemistry or materials science.

📍New York, Jersey City, Shanghai or Beijing

📆Closing date: 20th August 2025

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Synthesis of materials for energy applications Materials for energy applications, such as the components of batteries and supercapacitors, help power the world, making the synthesis and preparation of ...

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Editorial: The synthesis of energy materials
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Research Highlights by Sara Renfrew, @peterseavill.bsky.social, @jetsinglee.bsky.social & @alexrgroves.bsky.social
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Only a few days left to apply!

If you're interested in joining @natsynth.nature.com, please get those applications in by 2nd May.

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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Synthesis Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Synthesis Location: New York, Shanghai or Beijing Closing date: May 2nd, 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for...

We’re hiring!

Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an Associate or Senior Editor with experience in synthetic chemistry or materials science.

📍New York, Beijing or Shanghai

🗓️Closing date: 2nd May 2025

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Industrial electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide over p-block metal single sites - Nature Synthesis This study reports oxygen functional group-coordinated p-block metal catalysts that optimize the adsorption strength of key H2O2 intermediates for the oxygen reduction reaction. An electrolyser based ...

Now online:

Article by Yu Gu, Yingjun Tan, Shaojun Guo & co-workers

Industrial electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide over p-block metal single sites

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Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition - Nature Synthesis Pulsed laser deposition is used for the heteroepitaxial growth of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) thin films on a KCl substrate at room temperature. Experimental and computational results conf...

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Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers

Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition

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4 cover images from 2024 published in Nature Synthesis

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An Editorial highlighting some of the excellent covers featured in Nature Synthesis in 2024 as well as the research they represent. Thanks to our authors for submitting such great covers!

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Ultrathin transition metal oxychalcogenide catalysts for oxygen evolution in acidic media - Nature Synthesis A family of two-dimensional transition metal oxychalcogenides is synthesized from bulk transition metal dichalcogenides by tetrabutylammonium intercalation. The stoichiometry and properties of the two...

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Article by Wenshuo Xu, Manish Chhowalla & co-workers

Ultrathin transition metal oxychalcogenide catalysts for oxygen evolution in acidic media

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Molecular sublimation enables 2D–3D transformation of orientational FAPbI3 perovskites - Nature Synthesis The synthesis of perovskite materials with preferred facet orientations is challenging due to randomized nucleation. Here a two-dimensional layered perovskite that initiates controlled lattice growth ...

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Article by Dong Yang, Kai Wang, Congcong Wu & co-workers

Molecular sublimation enables 2D–3D transformation of orientational FAPbI3 perovskites

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The importance of basic electrochemistry terminology in the era of interdisciplinary battery research - Nature Nanotechnology Understanding and adopting an appropriate electrochemistry language will foster constructive collaborations among battery research community members with diverse scientific backgrounds.

New Editorial online - The importance of basic electrochemistry terminology in the era of interdisciplinary battery research.

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The December issue is live🎄
Thin films of stable layered nitrides
Out-of-equilibrium supramolecular gels
Coupling of arylthianthrenium salts under acidic conditions
Assembly of tubular frameworks
Computational studies of MoDAT and SuFEx pathways
(Continued)
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Molecules of the year 2024 C&EN editors highlight some of our favorite molecules from the past year

α⁠-⁠ʟ⁠-⁠Cyclodextrin has won @cenmag.bsky.social 2024 Molecule of the year! cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

Check out the research paper published in @naturesynthesis.bsky.social earlier this year www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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One of the biggest questions we get is when will our journals be here. We thank you for your patience.

You can now follow our journals with this starter pack!

Well the chemistry community has voted, and α⁠-⁠ʟ⁠-⁠cyclodextrin has won molecule of the year. I'm just glad I didn't have to draw the thing #chemsky

Well well well, if it isn’t my New Year’s resolution since 2014…

The "Energy Materials" team of @naturecomms.bsky.social is looking for two editors with expertise in the fields of #batteries and #electrocatalysis. #Editor positions are permanent and located in the UK 🇬🇧 (London) or USA 🇺🇸 (New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia). Links to apply in the comments below 👇

Sad to be leaving Boston after a great #F24MRS. I'm looking forward to seeing the cat though. #catsky

#AcademicSky #MedSky #Metascience

THREAD

So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.

Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?

Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
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Altmetric cumulative attention shown by day in the Altmetric Explorers. The Sky Blue section from Bluesky is growing over time.

The Rise of Skywalkers

Always nice to meet up with global colleges at #F24MRS. Here I am with Matt from @natrevcleantech.bsky.social enjoying the photo op!
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Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric. It's been 84 years meme #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

We're halfway through the #F24MRS! I hope everyone is enjoying the week as much as I am.

If you would like to discuss a potential submission or to learn more about the journal please send me a DM or email and we can arrange a time!
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It's been great to meet global colleagues this week. If you want to chat to a Nature editor at #f24MRS, we're not the only journal here: we've got colleagues from @naturematerials.bsky.social, @naturesynthesis.bsky.social, @naturenano.bsky.social, @naturecomms.bsky.social

Synthesis of high-entropy materials - Nature Synthesis The emergence of high-entropy materials affords opportunities to harmonize precision and disorder for materials design. This Review highlights the synthesis principles and strategies towards controlla...

Review article now online @naturesynthesis.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social:
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Synthesis of high-entropy materials by Yifan Sun & Sheng Dai

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Synthesis of isolated Ru–O3 sites on hexagonal close-packed intermetallic penta-metallene for hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysis - Nature Synthesis Atomically thin alloys are promising electrocatalysts but suffer from poor homogeneity. Here a multi-element metallene system is synthesized using an auto-catalytic method. The hexagonal close-packed ...

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By Fan Lv, Shaojun Guo & co-workers

Synthesis of isolated Ru–O3 sites on hexagonal close-packed intermetallic penta-metallene for hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysis

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I am attending the #F24MRS this week in Boston. Send me an email if you would like to meet up to discuss potential submissions or learn more about the journal! @materials-mrs.bsky.social