Barry Blight

MOFs!!

short answer: yes.

How is carbon dioxide being turned into food in the lab? Butter made from captured CO2 is the latest food item to make headlines, highlighting growing interest in this field

Making food from thin air sounds like science fiction but that's what some companies are starting to do using captured carbon dioxide.

Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...

Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky

wtf...fan interference...AND...homerun...

not on fb...is there a 3-line recap available?

Stephen!! great news! congrats!

Many Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social

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Transforming Aluminium Waste: Sustainable Conversion to Commercial MOFs, Hydrogen Fuel, and Essential Aluminium Feedstocks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SU/D5SU00631G

Transforming aluminium waste: sustainable conversion to commercial MOFs, hydrogen fuel, and essential aluminium feedstocks Aluminium dross waste is generated during the aluminium smelting process and has an annual production of nearly 5.3 M tonnes worldwide. It is largely comprised of aluminium but also contains different...

Very excited to finally be able to share this exciting open-access work, 3 years in the making. Sustainably converting waste alumin(i)um into AL-MOFs, alumina at much lower temperatures, and hydrogen gas as a biproduct. Congrats to Dr Mason Lawrence for driving this, and Robbie Horne.

you must be on sabbatical, deep diving other peoples' problems.

🎓 Applications open for the first Carsten Schmuck PhD Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry!

UNB research administrator Kara MacGillivray recognized for community-minded creativity At the Canadian Association of Research Administrators’ (CARA) 2025 Canadian Conference on Research Administration, held in Fredericton in May, UNB’s Kara MacGillivray, a financial analyst in research...

They say that constraint can breed creativity.

Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:

blogs.unb.ca/research/202...

Eek!

Maybe not in 1 week but the math does say one should review 3 papers for every submitted one…

This is the right kind of news. More of this please.

Acid/Base‐Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters with Configurationally Stable Nitrogen Stereogenic Centers Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) emitters based on Tröger's base analogues bearing two peripheral fluorophores (anthracene, pyrene or 9,9-dimethylfluorene) are prepared following a straightfor...

Now in an issue. Tröger's base derivatives are suitable chiral scaffolds to make CPL emitters by their functionalization with simple achiral fluorophores. Acid/base-driven CPL switching was also achieved.

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TOC means you hit. Well done. It’s like the last couple reps of a work out or a savage bike climb. You’ll be happy when it’s finished. Power through!

Great message!

Now you need a boulder club!

Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that.

This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.
 
jenheemstra.com/book

Research Specialist- NMR Focus Job Description: Research Specialist - NMR Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so...

NMR Job at 3M.

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#Chemsky #NMR

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on top of simply being 'too old'

University of Toronto: Assistant Professor in Experimental Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/07/university-of-toronto-assistant.html

University of Toronto: Associate Professor in Experimental Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/07/university-of-toronto-associate.html

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Move to Fredericton...even if you're not a doctor!
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