Key Factors to Open Up Space for New Science In a new Editorial marking ACS Electrochemistry's 100th article, Prof. Lane Baker discusses the process behind the research with Editor-in-Chief Patrick Unwin. Their conversation highlights the…

The 100th paper accepted into ACS Electrochemistry by @bakergrp.bsky.social has a fascinating backstory showing the key elements that open up new spaces for scientific exploration.

All aspiring researchers should check out this inspiring story: buff.ly/OCYxn0I

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The program for the Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Imaging is out!

July 27 - Aug 1, 2025
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Take a break from the grind this summer and focus on Science with the best in the field. Space is limited, sign up soon to reserve your place!

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories has begun. Special welcome to our new AUT Fellows!

When designing new technologies, where do people fit in? Thanks to Nikki Pohl, Indiana University, Bloomington, for kicking off the dialogue at #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories with a terrific keynote talk, “Toward Human-Centered Lab Automation.”

Co-Chairs Livia Eberlin and Lane Baker are happy to announce apps for GRC on Chemical Imaging are open! The latest and greatest in instrumentation, data analysis and applications of this growing field. A GRS immediately precedes the GRC. www.grc.org/chemical-ima... www.grc.org/chemical-ima...

Microscopic Theory of Polaron-Polariton Dispersion and Propagation We develop an analytical microscopic theory to describe the polaron-polariton dispersion, formed by hybridizing excitons, photons, and phonons, and their coherent dynamics inside optical cavities. Starting from a microscopic light-matter Hamiltonian, we derive a simple analytical model by pursuing a non-perturbative treatment of the phonon and photon couplings to excitons. Within our theoretical framework, the phonons are treated as classical fields that are then quantized via the Floquet formalism. We show that, to a good approximation, the entire polaron-polariton system can be described using a band picture despite the phonons breaking translational symmetry. Our theory also sheds light on the long-lived coherent ballistic motion of exciton-polaritons with high excitonic character that propagate with group velocities lower than is expected from pure exciton-polariton bands, offering a microscopic explanation for these puzzling experimental observations.

Super excited to share our first work at Texas A&M!
Excellent work from Logan, Arshath, and Saeed!!!!

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Let me give a concrete example of the importance of applications with high risk-high reward as well as the role of NIH staff in taking risks.

Decades ago, a physical chemist proposed ideas about doing mass spectrometry on proteins (when this was deemed probably impossible).

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Synthesis games for chemists to puzzle over From problem set to puzzle game

For the latest #Newscripts in C&EN, @laureloldach.bsky.social has the scoop on Synthordle from Ryan Shenvi's lab, plus some other chemistry games. cen.acs.org/education/Sy... #chemsky 🧪 #scinews

Electrochemical imaging of neurotransmitter release with fast-scan voltammetric ion conductance microscopy Spatiotemporal release of dopamine at dopaminergic neurons is reported using fast-scan voltammetric electrochemical microscopy.

Very excited to share my latest work (at Baker group) in collaboration with Prof. Rahul Srinivasan's group. Great appreciations to Lane and Rahul for the guidance and all my colleagues for the amazing work!
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Thanks! yes the reducing environment is key. We followed work from a number of groups Porter, McCreery, Stevenson. Pretty useful as electrodes.

Our first group photo!!!! #chemsky
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New ACS meeting pricing. Yikes.

Look who is rolling into town...

Hagler group and Pullanchery group @tamuchemistry.bsky.social are hosting fun science activities and sharing their research at the #ExpandingYourHorizons event. @tamuartsci.bsky.social @tamu.bsky.social

we welcome new group members Josselyn De Leon and Aswathi Sahadevan to the bakergrp. www.bakergrp.org/2024/11/20/n...

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The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry is excited to announce the 5th SEAC Student Group Meeting, held on 3/01/2025 in Boston, MA.
•Participation in this meeting is open to students (graduate, undergraduate) and postdoctoral associates forms.gle/BdTwtkseG3mj...
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