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Royal Society URF and Associate Professor in Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK

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📣 Announcement 📣

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."

Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social

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24.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 36    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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2025 MASC Prize Calls MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group 2025 MASC Prize Calls 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in memory of John Fossey: The RSC MASC Group P…

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The Bob Hay Award Lectureship 🏆

Given in memory of Prof. Bob Hay by a chemist within 15 years of PhD completion, for exceptional research contributions to the MASC field and/or exceptional service to the community.

Deadline 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

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19.08.2025 11:11 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Through use of perfluorinated ligands to induce dihedral twisting, our group reports the first stable Pd8L16 square antiprism as a new member of the PdnL2n family. Now out in
@jacs.acspublications.org with work led by @soumalya.bsky.social with @steppphhhen.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

11.08.2025 10:21 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 MASC Prize Calls MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group 2025 MASC Prize Calls 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in memory of John Fossey: The RSC MASC Group P…

The 2025 MASC Group Awards are all open for nominations, with the following deadlines:

🏆 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 Bob Hay Award Lectureship. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 MASC Group PhD Thesis Award. 📆 7th Nov

🏆 MASC/WISC EDIA Award. 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

24.07.2025 22:03 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Delighted that our review on the Encapsulation of Reactive Species within Metal-Organic Cages is now out in Chemical Science:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Written by @soumalya.bsky.social and Martin Black
@chemicalscience.rsc.org

07.08.2025 10:56 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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