Mustafa O. Guler

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 buff.ly/z9x8mNT

Materials Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks Go Commercial Porous materials used for gas storage and catalysis can now be made on a ton scale, but producers still seek opportunities for large-scale use

The 2025 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry have created MOFs, which are useful for storing and purifying gases, separating hydrocarbons, capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas streams, mediating catalytic reactions, and soaking up uranium from seawater cen.acs.org/articles/91/... #chemsky 🧪

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

Guardians of The Immune System: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries That Keep Our Defences In Check – The Science Matters The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine honours discoveries that reveal how the immune system keeps itself in check, unlocking cures for autoimmunity and cancer.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for uncovering peripheral immune tolerance — the mechanism that prevents our immune system from attacking our own tissues.

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

go.nature.com/48QDdAJ

Argonne presents Quantum Concepts In our Quantum Concepts series, we bring key quantum ideas to life by imagining how a familiar object - the apple that inspired Isaac Newton - might act in t...

Your Sunday watch: Visualize key quantum concepts with Argonne National Laboratory: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

D-peptide-magnetic nanoparticles fragment tau fibrils and rescue behavioral deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease A short peptide disassembles stable pathogenic tau fibrils of Alzheimer’s disease.

D-peptide-magnetic nanoparticles fragment tau fibrils and rescue behavioral deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interleukins 15 and 18 synergistically prime the antitumor function of natural killer cells through noncanonical activation of mTORC1 mTORC1 activation by components of a cytokine cocktail enhances NK cell cytotoxicity toward cancer cells.

A new #ScienceSignaling study reveals how a cytokine cocktail used to activate natural killer cells for cancer #immunotherapy invigorates their antitumor abilities through a twin-pronged molecular pathway, potentially informing future clinical applications. https://scim.ag/4nt5SA2

Multifunctional peptide nanofiber coatings enhance bone regeneration on xenograft materials - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Multifunctional peptide nanofiber coatings enhance bone regeneration on xenograft materials

Multifunctional peptide nanofiber coatings enhance bone regeneration on xenograft materials www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mucin 1 Antigen Mimetic Functionalized Mannosylated Peptide Nanofibers for Antigen Uptake and Immune Modulation @biomatersci.rsc.org @rscbiomaterchem.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The Safest and Richest US Cities To Live in 2025 We compare these results to our 2024 study.

The Safest and Richest US Cities To Live in 2025 www.gobankingrates.com/money/econom...

Promotional image for a Royal Society of Chemistry event titled "ChemCareers: Applying for Fellow," scheduled for 10 September 2025 from 12:30-13:30 (UK time). Features two individuals seated at a table, working on laptops. A registration prompt for a free place is visible.

If you’ve ever wondered about becoming a Fellow of the RSC, our free webinar is here to answer your questions. Learn about the FRSC application process, criteria, required experience and what you need to put on your CV. Save your space: https://rsc.li/4oMDAC2 #ChemSky

ARPA-E offers funding for magnetic materials and rare-mineral recovery US Department of Energy offers $60 million for drilling and analytical technologies, materials science

The US Department of Energy is looking to fund research in the areas of rare earth element exploration and magnetic-material science. The programs’ emphasis is on improving domestic supply chains for magnets and electronic materials. cen.acs.org/energy/ARPA-... #chemsky 🧪

Master of Engineering student Destini Wiseman in the lab (Photo by Jason Smith)

Master of Engineering student Destini Wiseman portrait photo (Photo by Jason Smith)

Get to know a Master of Engineering student! 🔬 Destini Wiseman, a graduate student at UChicago PME, is combining her education in engineering, leadership, and business to develop and bring to market vaccines and other therapies.

pme.uchicago.edu/news/combini...

Master of Engineering

Applications are OPEN for the Master of Engineering program at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Take the next step in advancing your career at the intersection of science and engineering.
Explore the program and apply here — pme.uchicago.edu/academics/ma...

Combining engineering and business leadership to improve health outcomes Graduate student Destini Wiseman is leveraging her bioengineering studies to fast-track breakthroughs that can advance human health

Combining engineering and business leadership to improve health outcomes | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | The University of Chicago pme.uchicago.edu/news/combini...

Monkey See, Monkey Scroll Why are we so attached to our phones? What keeps us hooked may not necessarily be what’s on the screen; it might just be that the screen keeps changing.

Am I actually getting anything from this, or am I just hooked on the fact that the screen keeps changing? If the answer is the second one, put the phone down and look around. There is probably something in the real world worth paying attention to, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/comp...

I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 65 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #chemsky #chemjobs

Senior Instructional Professor (open rank) - Polymer Science
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Salary Range: Assistant SIP: $110,000 - $120,000; Associate SIP: $120,000 - $130,000; SIP: $130,000 - $175,000 academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/16...

The Peptide Craze The Surge in Use of Off-Label and Non-FDA Approved Peptides

There's been a big surge of people getting injections of biologically active peptides without data to support their use or FDA approval (and off-label use). I've written about the status of 15 of them here, along with NAD+.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...

Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership

@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪

About 1 in 6 U.S. teachers work second jobs The share of teachers working second jobs outside the classroom did not change much from before the pandemic.

About 1 in 6 U.S. teachers work second jobs www.pewresearch.org/...

The anti-inflammatory power of semaglutide (Ozempic) seen by its normalization to healthy of a 72 protein signature tied to MASH liver disease
nature.com/articles/s41...

This is figure 2, which shows physiological pathways underlying the association between ultra-processed dietary patterns and obesity.

A Review in Nature Reviews Endocrinology assesses the role of ultra-processed foods in obesity, examining the epidemiological evidence, biological mechanisms and implications for policymakers. go.nature.com/44zGHoO 🍎📃 #medsky 🧪

Activation of the ‘complement system’ helps trigger dangerous sickle-cell-disease outcome Research in mice suggests this system plays a key role in acute chest syndrome and offers a potential therapeutic target

Researchers demonstrate how the complement system—a group of proteins that are part of the innate immune system’s defense against pathogens and contribute to initiating an inflammatory response against injuries and infections— drives acute chest syndrome. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

By design In the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s capstone course, fourth-year students put their skills to the test.

After four years of textbooks and problem sets, molecular engineering students test their skills out on real world engineering problems. They might not be able to solve the problems in two quarters, but what matters is how they approach the challenge. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

Cover of The University of Chicago Magazine. Illustration of two people speaking in front of 57th Street Books

Our Summer/25 issue is here! Discover new materials that defy physics, a Bollywood cover band, superagers, the art of translation, the fight against book bans, and more. mag.uchicago.edu/issue/summer25

By design In the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s capstone course, fourth-year students put their skills to the test.

By design: In the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s capstone course, fourth-year students put their skills to the test. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi... @uchicagomag.bsky.social @uchicagopme.bsky.social