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The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

#NobelPrize week starts tomorrow & the #chemnobel is Wednesday… used to be so much Nobel chat on Tw*tter, but that is not replicated here, alas. Anyway, for the record, I think MOFs will win at some point (maybe this year maybe not). Balasubramanian & Klenerman a good bet for next-gen sequencing too

This is the complete speaker line-up for POLYMAT Spotlight 2026!
29 June – 2 July, 2026 hashtag#POLYMATsptl
More details at: polymat-spotlight.eu

Faculty Recruitment Now Open – Join WISE in Advancing Sustainable Materials Science - WISE The Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE) is proud to launch its second major faculty recruitment drive, opening up new opportunities to lead cutting-edge research in sustai...

14 faculty positions being recruited across Swedish universities as part of the WISE program, all with nice starting packages: wise-materials.org/external/fac...

Cambridge is good, but I'm already missing holidays...

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone.

This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

La fotografía muestra a Jean Bartik y a Frances Spence operando en los paneles de la computadora electrónica ENIAC. Fuente: Wikimedia Commons.

Fotografía donde aparecen varias mujeres operando los paneles de la computadora electrónica ENIAC. La foto pertenece al cartel de la película - documental "The Computers", de Kathy Kleiman, Kate McMahon y Jon Palfreman (2010).

Cuando la estudiante de informática Kathy Kleiman se topó con estas fotos, se preguntó quienes eran estas mujeres.

Las mostró en el Museo de la Computación de Boston. "Son modelos —le dijeron—. Ya sabes, como en los anuncios de frigoríficos."

La respuesta no le convenció.
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Multiscale Profiling of Nanoscale Metal‐Organic Framework Biocompatibility and Immune Interactions A multi-scale, hierarchical ‘Safety-by-Design’ pipeline combining machine learning, ex vivo human blood assays, and in vivo models enables the systematic immunotoxicity and biocompatibility profiling....

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Both studies point to a clear future: design nanomedicines from the outset for safety, precision, and impact.

In Advanced Healthcare Materials, we present a validated pipeline for metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that integrates human blood assays, and in vivo models to map immune responses and select the safest candidates for clinical use. This de-risks and accelerates translation.

discuss groundbreaking work from the Chan lab showing that nanoparticles don’t just “leak” into tumours — they are actively transported by specialised endothelial cells via macropinocytosis. This insight could reshape how targeted therapies are designed.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lZ2o9Cyxd...

Thrilled to share two new publications from our team and collaborators — one challenging old assumptions in nanomedicine, the other providing a roadmap for safer translation.

In Matter (Cell Press), we...

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Hello #ChemSky! We're the open preprint server for the global chemistry community and we're glad to be here.

Follow along as we share exciting preprints and engage with the community. Learn more about us: chemrxiv.org

Room temperature ale is great when the temperature is not 30C!

congratulations!

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Congratulations to the winners of our #Porous #Materials Symposium!
@genam-rseq-rsef.bsky.social presentation prize: Sara Ruiz Relaño @icn2.bsky.social
@cinbio.bsky.social poster prize: Patricia Jiménez Hernández @imdeananociencia.bsky.social
#RSEQBienal2025 #Porous #Bienal2025 #RSEQ2025

Ahh, Boston sigue estando más al sur! :D

(en realidad Manhattan está más al sur - nos lo imaginamos al revés porque hace más frío allá, pero no..)

On Wednesday, 25th June 2025, our #SeniorProcessEngineer, Dr Hesam Maleki, and #BusinessDevelopmentManager, Robin Gillham are teaming up with #Siemens, for a #webinar showcasing how our unique #monolithic #MOFs are redefining what’s possible in #carboncapture.

#Register now: hubs.li/Q03qmXMn0

Evolution of the Alphabet from Ancient Scripts to Modern Latin This infographic from UsefulCharts.com, titled 'Evolution of the Alphabet', illustrates the transformation of letters from their earliest forms to the modern Latin script. The chart is structured in r...

I am posting this once again because it’s the most beautiful infographic ever and it makes me happy

These papers show how supramolecular chemistry and careful cluster design can unlock new functional materials. Big thanks to all involved in bringing these ideas to life!

Tunable Self-Assembly of Decanuclear Ni(II) Carbonato Clusters with a Hydroxyquinolinato Shell: Robust Porous Networks with Reversible Solvent-/Temperature-Driven Phase Transitions and Selective Gas S... The utilization of molecular metal clusters as building units of noncovalent porous materials (NPMs) is a promising strategy, combining the versatile functionality of organic and inorganic subunits wi...

In @jacs.acspublications.org, we report the self-assembly of Ni(II) clusters into porous networks. These materials are robust, reversible, and show excellent gas separation properties in response to solvent or temperature changes.
Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Stabilization toward air and structure determination of pyrophoric ZnR2 compounds via supramolecular encapsulation Efficient encapsulation of pyrophoric ZnR2 compounds paves the way for their selective capture, air-handling, and storage.

In #ScienceAdvances, we present a supramolecular strategy to stabilize highly reactive ZnR₂ compounds. This enables structural characterization of species that are normally too unstable to isolate.
Link: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Excited to share two new papers from our collaboration with Janusz Lewiński and his team, now published in Science Advances and JACS. A great effort exploring pyrophoric clusters and tunable porous materials.

Gas de síntesis - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

Entre otras cosas, almacenar energía. Tambien sirve para construir nuevas moléculas cuando se combina, sobre todo, con CO (esto se llama gas de síntesis es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_de_...).

A ver, un enlace al azar: ecoacero.com/el-ciclo-de-...

🚀 #CageCavityCalc Windows Installer is now available!

🔹 Automated Windows 64-bit installer (Win10 & 11)
🔹 Installs both CageCavityCalc plugin and PyMOL
🔹 Desktop shortcut for easy access

🔗 Download now at: github.com/VicenteMarti...

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es del 100% por eso depende de energía barata. Lo del hierro es la "reducción" de un óxido metalico. Necesitas algo que se lleve ese oxígeno. Se suele usar coque de petróleo pero se podría usar hidrógeno.

La red no almacena energía. Lo pueden hacer las baterías (que tienen un coste). Lo puede hacer un embalse si se puede subir el agua (en verano y en según que lugares, quizá no). El hidrógeno es un vector más que cuando lo oxidas para sacar energía te da agua - se entiende que la eficiencia no

Un resumen muy corto y simple: el hidrógeno tiene dos usos fundamentales, como vector y almacenamiento de energía (podría ser tb una batería o bombear agua arriba en una presa) y, en ciertos sectores como el acero, para poder pasar de óxido de hierro a hierro metálico.