Adam Clancy

Go home Winviz, you're drunk

UV-Vis Absorption up to a wavelength of 0 nm = infinite energy!!
👉 Nobel Prize or Retraction due to an 'experiment' hand-drawn by 'scientists' working in theoretical chemistry? Elsevier: please decide!

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#researchintegrity #ChemSky #PiSky #CompChemSky

Do love nanomaterials? Do you tolerate LinkedIn? Consider following the RSC Nanoscience Group (link below) to stay up to date with events, awards!

#Chemsky #Nanosky

A new MIL-101-type chromium-based metal–organic framework with densely packed sulfonic groups: an ultra-high uptake of toxic Pb2+ and Cu2+ ions from an aqueous medium Metal–organic frameworks have been demonstrated to be effective adsorbents of heavy metal ions in recent decades. Nevertheless, their practical applications remain limited because of their slow uptake...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

A new MIL-101-type chromium-based metal–organic framework with densely packed sulfonic groups: an ultra-high uptake of toxic Pb2+ and Cu2+ ions from an aqueous medium

Nguyen*

Nguyen, Nanoscale Adv, 10.1039/D5NA00442J
@nanoscale-journals.rsc.org
#chemsky #nanosky

I know a guy who
alloys steel
He makes it stronger
a harder feel
He don't use carbon
or molyb'
He don't use nickel
or any of these

He uses manganese

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📣 Join us for two days of inspiring talks, and networking with leaders in the field of nanoscience at the RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Annual Symposium 🧪✨

📍 London, UK
📅 12–13 January 2026
📝 Abstract deadlines:
— Oral: 30 Sept 2025
— Poster: 31 Oct 2025

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#chemsky #nanosky

A reminder that we have a fully-funded 4-year PhD project available! #PhD #ChemSky

While the aim of science technically isn't to see how much of a grant you can spend without going over on the last day, I'm still feeling pretty cheery after hitting £0.18 under the limit. Built up a little stockpile of solvent-resistant syringes to hide in my office too #chemsky

A one-step route to solubilised, purified or functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes Reductive dissolution is a promising processing route for single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that avoids the damage caused by ultrasonication and aggressive oxidation whilst simultaneously allowi...

Happy 10th birthday to my first paper - a simple way to dissolve individualised nanotubes by stirring in dimethylacetamide alongside sodium and naphthalene. Somehow it feels both a lifetime ago, and yesterday.
#Chemsky

Is this 現實生活 ? Is this just fántǐ zì?

Toxicity of nanoplastics: machine learning combined with meta-analysis Nanoplastics (NPs) are widespread in ecosystems, and their biohazards are of increasing concern. The hazards posed by NPs to aquatic and terrestrial plants as well as to aquatic animals have been exte...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Toxicity of nanoplastics: machine learning combined with meta-analysis

Chen* (Capital Medical University)

Li, Nanoscale Horiz, 10.1039/D5NH00024F
@nanoscale-journals.rsc.org
#chemsky #nanosky

Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6  - Nature The facile synthesis and spectroscopic identification of previously unreported hexanitrogen C2h-N6 is described, representing experimentally realized neutral molecular nitrogen allotropes beyond N2 th...

Just when organic chemists thought they have all the possible small molecules, N6 makes its appearance.

By far, excellent read of this year #ChemSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone who cares about nanoscience should know that registration for the @rsc-cnn.bsky.social Annual Symposium is open. Bargain of a conference (£120) in London's incredible Burlington House, with fantastic speakers including my old PhD boss Milo Shaffer from @imperialchemistry.bsky.social
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Connecting the nanoseed defect structure and crystallinity with resulting nanoparticle products Anisotropic gold (Au) nanocrystals (NCs) represent an interesting class of materials due to their shape and size dependent tunable optical properties as well as facet dependent catalytic and photocata...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Connecting the nanoseed defect structure and crystallinity with resulting nanoparticle products

Moreau* (Washington State University)

Roy, Nanoscale Adv, 10.1039/D5NA00418G
@nanoscale-journals.rsc.org
#chemsky #nanosky

Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky

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Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

UCL's Andrea Sella to return his 2014 Michael Faraday prize to the Royal Society over its continued refusal to censure Elon Musk. Sella won the award as 'an exemplary science communicator' (in the words of the RS's spokesperson). Its return too is exemplary science communication.

And this probably is a coincidence, but apparently almost 1/3 of our faculty has a surname beginning with B or C, which seems weirdly high

Academic Staff We have a diverse and international faculty engaged in a broad spectrum of research, we promote excellence and strive to inspire through challenging teaching.

Only 19 days left to apply for the UCL Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship (=Assist Prof). A great tenured job in a country not actively decimating its academic research landscape🇬🇧

Others have shared the advert, so instead let me introduce your amazing potential future colleages

#Chemsky #chemjobs

Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor)

London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️

Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀

#chemsky 🧪

Promoting the signal reliability of non-invasive biosensors via a N-doped graphene quantum dot modified Prussian blue analogue protective layer for glucose monitoring Precise and reliable wearable biosensors are essential for diabetes tracking, enhancing result accuracy for patients. Prussian blue (PB) has been the subject of numerous studies in biosensor developme...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Promoting the signal reliability of non-invasive biosensors via a N-doped graphene quantum dot modified Prussian blue analogue protective layer for glucose monitoring

Yeh* (NTUST)

Chiu, J Mater Chem B, 10.1039/D5TB00497G

@jmaterchem.rsc.org

#chemsky #nanosky

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).

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.

Please share ! Deadline 24-June

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Sadly, Journal accounts have flooded #chemsky, likely causing the noticeable drop in human posts. Please try consciously to keep this place alive by muting all the paper bots and re-engage with the scientist's posts here. It would be a pity if chemsky was lost.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Nanoscale island manipulation and construction of heterojunctions by mechanical collision of 2D materials Controllable phase transitions between distinct polymorphs in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold great significance for applications in nanoscale electronics. Currently, constructing nanosca...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Nanoscale island manipulation and construction of heterojunctions by mechanical collision of 2D materials

Zhang* and Wang* (Beijing Institute of Technology )

Cao, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 10.1039/D5CP01339A
@pccp.rsc.org

#chemsky #nanosky

White smoke! 💨

(Got this graphic out just in time!)

Rhenium coordination-induced conformational modulation in nitrogen-doped nanographene The conformation of nanographene plays a pivotal role in determining its electronic, mechanical, and optical properties. Analyzing the conformation of nanographene is crucial because of its significan...

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Rhenium coordination-induced conformational
modulation in nitrogen-doped nanographene

Chen* (Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan)

Varghese, Chemical Science, 10.1039/d5sc02827b
@chemicalscience.rsc.org

#chemsky #nanosky #ChemSci

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

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

I found Prof Andrea Sella hiding at the back of the @ri-science.bsky.social dressed like a banana. What a perfectly normal Sunday night we are having