Camilla Di Mino

graph-pes is John‘s open-source, all-round software package for fitting & fine-tuning graph-based ML interatomic potentials – do try it out, follow him for updates, and share! #chemsky #compchem 🧪

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

I you (a) like really fancy AFM, (b) like 2D nanomaterials, and/or (c) need a PDRA job in the near future, then boy do I have good news for you.

Advert is now open for an 18 month PDRA position in my group in UCL, London. Closing date 20th May, informal email inquiries encouraged #chemsky #nanosky

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi -

Spot the @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social Research Fellow hiding in the audience of the Royal Institution (hint: it is @camilladimino.bsky.social aka the one dressed as a banana).

@ri-science.bsky.social #chemsky

Beautiful sunsets on TS1.

#disorderedmaterials #ISIS #neutrons

The sun this morning hit The Queen's College just right.
@ox.ac.uk #oxford

π holes in water: Solvation of phenol, aniline, and p-nitrophenol substituted aromatics.

Authors: Camilla Di Mino, Daniel T. Bowron, Thomas F. Headen, Michael A. Wilkinson, Tristan G. A. Youngs, Andrea Sella, Neal T. Skipper
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-gbmqn

Thank you!

Intermediate-range solvent templating and counterion behaviour at charged carbon nanotube surfaces - Nature Nanotechnology Neutron scattering on a model system of highly concentrated solutions of charged carbon nanotubes reveals a strong solvent ordering up to ∼40 Å around the charged nanoscale surface.

We are finally online. We pushed neutron total scattering to look at interfaces in an unprecedented level of detail. Thank you to dream team that made this possible. I could not be more proud to be part of it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturenano.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk
#chemsky

It's pink, and it smells amazing. I might have a new favourite. #Chemsky #phenol #crystals

It was such a pleasure to host Prof Caroline Knapp in Oxford today. The first proper chemistry talk I could ever follow.
Thank you very much again Caroline for coming up to visit us.

@oxfordmaterials.bsky.social
#UniversityofOxgord
#OxfordMaterials
#InorganicChemistry

YouTube video by BBC World Service Is Iceland the gender-equality haven for women it seems to be? - BBC World Service

Imagine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26Q...

If anyone knows AFM of nanomaterials and will be looking for a PDRA job around May next year, consider dropping me an email. Official adverts etc will follow in the new year

Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters Au25(SR)18 nanoclusters decorated with semifluorinated thiolate ligands (SFLs) self-assemble hierarchically depending on the charge state of the nanocluster component; the use of the anionic cluster (...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters

Konishi* (Hokkaido University)
Saito et al., Chem Comm, 10.1039/D4CC04786A

#Chemsky #nanosky #Science

Apply for a UCL EPSRC DTP studentship The UCL EPSRC DTP 2024/25 recruitment is now open.

We currently have a project on gallium oxide thin films available through the competitive DTP route at UCL (Project ID: 2228cd1383) 🙌Deadline 8th January 2024 📢 Get in touch if you're interested!
More info on the scheme here: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...

Next up at #F24MRS is the wonderful Anna Regoutz (aka @bluebananna.bsky.social) who is
(i) always great to hear from if you have any interest in using xrays to understand any interface you might care about
(ii) definitely not a traitor for leaving UCL so she could return to Oxford

First Hamiltonian I have seen in years. I did not miss it but it was made sweeter by Samuel Yick's great talk at #f24mrs.

Well that was fun! The combination of the incredulity of being here with the excitement of talking about science. Fantastic first two days at #f24mrs

🌟 Exciting news! We're now on Bluesky! Follow us and join the conversation with #F24MRS. Stay connected with the latest updates and insights from the materials community!

How impressive to see MIT person. Boston is such a lively city, full of students. Reminds me of Oxford in many ways. What a pleasure to be here for #F24MRS. Who's joining ? Come to find me on Dec 3rd at the CH04.04.03 symposium #Boston #MIT #chemsky

Racoon catching snowflakes ❄️

Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

I see your immediate vacancy and call with one of my own!

Immediately available PhD studentship (Home fees & stipend) on a MOF/polymers/neutrons/computational project with ISIS, Cardiff and the Ada Lovelace Centre. Original student unable to start so post re-advertised.

#ChemSky spread the word!

Nanopasta, no, really Fig. 1 from the linked paper Here is a light-hearted bit of research that touches on some fun physics.  As you might readily imagine, there...

Nanopasta! Now all we need are nanoantipasto and nanowine, and we can have a lovely meal too small to see with the naked eye. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/11/nano...

Bluesky is really taking off with STEM academics across UCL, so I thought it was time we had our own Starter Pack

#academicsky #chemsky #stem #sciencesky #research #chemeng

go.bsky.app/9ZnMnCd

My fantastic office mate @clancylab.bsky.social has made nano-sized pasta, and the world has now lost its mind

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I love the very proud Italian flag in Figure 2f.

Good to see you here @uclofficial.bsky.social

University College London has joined Bluesky today! Give them a follow - great to see academic institutions joining the platform as well as academics!

bsky.app/profile/uclo...

I'll give a talk on neutron scattering, battery materials, and simulations (weird mix I know) on 3rd December!

Thanks!