Brenna Bierman

Versatile Open-Source Photoreactor Architecture for Photocatalysis Across the Visible Spectrum Adoption of commercial photoreactors as standards for photocatalysis research could be limited by high cost. We report the development of the Wisconsin Photoreactor Platform (WPP), an open-source phot...

#chemsky, have you used a Wisconsin Photoreactor? I designed them and will soon defend my PhD. I’d like to include photos of Wisconsin Photoreactors in use by other chemists in my defense. Please share (reply to this post or DM me) a photo of your photoreactor in action!

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Evidence for Topological States and a Lifshitz Transition in Metastable 2M‐WSe2 This study demonstrates the Fermi surface characteristics and transport properties of 2M-WSe2 bulk single crystals. The measurements and first-principles calculations reveal multiple Fermi pockets wi...

Our work on 2M-WSe2 is out now in Adv. Funct. Mater.!
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Hello, could I be added to the feed? I am a chemistry graduate student: orcid.org/0000-0002-45...

Dual Activation Modes Enable Bifunctional Catalysis of Aldol Reactions by Flexible Dihydrazides Hydrazides are known to catalyze reactions of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes via transient iminium formation. The iminium intermediate displays enhanced electrophilicity, which facilitates conjugate additi...

My work on bifunctional organocatalysis of aldol reactions by flexible dihydrazides is out in JACS (@pubs.acs.org). I find that hydrazide units connected by long, flexible linkers offer significant rate enhancement relative to monohydrazides. doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #ChemSky