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The Chemical Science team welcomes Xianfeng Li from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China as an Associate Editor!

Professor Li will be handling research on electrochemical energy storage and batteries.

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Burlington House needs bigger stairs for symposium photographs😌

Thank you so much to all of the attendees for joining us for a wonderful exploration of sensing, diagnostics and bioimaging!

We will be closing out the day with our publishing panel and a very special invited talk from Chris Chang!

The Spakowitz Lab at Stanford (Theory and Computation of Biological Processes and Soft Materials) is delighted to join the Bluesky community! We look forward to sharing our work and to learning about your research achievements.

Design Principles of Stimuli-Responsive Covalent Adaptable Networks Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are sustainable polymeric materials that combine mechanical robustness with reprocessability through dynamic covalent bonds. Their mechanical behavior is governed by...

New work from our collaborators at Northwestern (Olvera de la Cruz group): a theoretical model on the mechanical response of light-induced living polymer networks, sparked by MONET CCI discussions.

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Promotional poster for the Chemical Science Symposium organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry, taking place 18–19 November 2025 in London, UK. The background features a stylized bioimaging scene depicting cellular environments. Central to the image is a vivid red cluster representing cancerous cells, surrounded by blue and green elements symbolizing healthy cells and molecular probes. The design evokes targeted imaging and sensing technologies used in cancer diagnostics, where fluorescent or molecular probes selectively bind to malignant cells for visualization and analysis. The abstract composition reflects advances in chemical biology, including cell-specific targeting, real-time imaging, and molecular sensing. A “15 Years Anniversary” emblem appears in the top right, and the Royal Society of Chemistry logo is in the top left. The poster also notes the deadline for abstract submissions: 8 September.

One week left to submit your poster abstracts for the 2025 Chemical Science Symposium on bioimaging, diagnostics and sensors!

Register and submit your abstract by Monday 8 September at: rsc.li/chemscisymp2025

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The 5th International Symposium on Singlet Fission and Photon Fusion (ISPF2) will be in Tokyo, July 8-10, 2026. Check out the link below for more information. Abstracts due March 31, 2026 and registration closes April 30, 2026. @nobuhiroyanai.bsky.social
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We have multiple PhD and Postdoc positions open in my new group at Masaryk University. Are you an excellent and motivated candidate interested in organic and peptide synthesis and chemical biology? Get in touch! Start in January 2026. www.fialalab.com
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Elucidating Quintet-State Dynamics in Singlet Fission Oligomers and Polymers with Tetracene Pendants To unlock the potential of molecular engineering for practical quantum sensing and computing, it is essential to create and control pure magnetic states in molecular systems. Singlet fission (SF) in o...

Excited to see this work published in JACS! We studied how the length of pendant teracene-based macromolecules influence the quintet state dynamics of the triplet pair generated by singlet fission. @somoscampos.bsky.social @sfeirlab.bsky.social @jacs.acspublications.org
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After 7 incredible years at Brandeis, I'm excited to start a new chapter at UCSB Chemistry today 😊 I'm forever grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Brandeis for their support. Looking forward to building an interdisciplinary program in materials & energy @ucsb.bsky.social 🌴☀️🔋

A photograph of a red, vaguely boat-shaped crystal in a test tube under ultraviolet light.

Federico Begato studies carbon-based nanoribbons. The material in this particular crystal is based on perylene bisimide, a fluorescent dye often used to construct molecular electronics and nanomaterials. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/na...

#CENChemPics #FluorescenceFriday #chemsky 🧪

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Chang @christhechang.bsky.social has won the 2025 Chemical Science Lectureship! rsc.li/chemsci-lectu...

Chris will deliver his Lectureship at the 2025 #ChemSciSymposium on 18-19 November in London, UK: rsc.li/chemscisymp2025

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Who's that T12-er? Herdeline Ardoña. "Wouldn't it be nice to have a breakthrough in the lab? Then you can help more patients that way."

As a biomaterials engineer at @ucirvine.bsky.social, @herdelineardona.bsky.social creates materials that might one day solve the organ donor shortage or help scientists grow tissues that could be used to screen drugs or study diseases. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/bi...

#CENT12 #chemsky 🧪

A promotional image for the upcoming Chemical Science symposium, on the subject of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics. The image shows a black background and on the right hand side is a stylised image of an unwanted cell with dendritic extensions, shown in red. It has a purple targeting reticule showing that it is being aimed at for treatment. Surrounding the red cell are a number of blue cells, conveying selective targeting. On the left hand side of the image is text for the Royal Society of Chemistry, along with the logo of the society, which is a stylised “C”. Other text states “Chemical Science symposium, 18-19 November 2025, London, UK” and “Save the date”.

We are excited to announce this year’s Chemical Science symposium, on the topic of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics!

Alongside celebrating 15 years of the journal, the winner of our first Lectureship will be presenting their research!

Find out more: rsc.li/chemscisymp2025

#ChemSky 🧪

Exciton and charge transfer processes within singlet fission micelles Multiexciton (ME) mechanisms hold great promise for enhancing energy conversion efficiency in optoelectronic and photochemical systems. In singlet fission (SF), the generation of two triplet excitons ...

Excited to share this paper on polymer-based self-assembled architectures to probe interfacial singlet fission dynamics: charge, exciton, and multiexciton transfer. @somoscampos.bsky.social @chemicalscience.rsc.org
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Search for improved triplet-state quenchers for fluorescence imaging: a computational framework incorporating excited-state Baird-aromaticity Fluorescence imaging is crucial for studying biology. Triplet state quenchers (TSQs), especially cyclooctatetraene (COT), can dramatically improve fluorophore performance, particularly when linked int...

Now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org : Our theoretical investigation together with Scott Blanchard and team of Baird-aromatic triplet state quenchers for self-healing fluorophores with up to 4x10^6 faster kISC than COT. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Don't miss Alexis Bordet, Walter Leitner et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers #chemsky

'One-pot synthesis of E-chalcones using a multifunctional catalyst comprised of ruthenium nanoparticles and palladium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes immobilized on silica'

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Conventional versus singlet-triplet Kondo effect in Blatter radical molecular junctions: Zero-bias anomalies and magnetoresistance The Blatter radical has been suggested as a building block in future molecular spintronic devices because of its radical character and expected long s…

Conventional versus singlet-triplet Kondo effect in Blatter radical molecular junctions: Zero-bias anomalies and magnetoresistance.
Check out this paper that resulted from an awesome collaboration! @cellpress.bsky.social
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🥳🥳Check out our latest cover in Chem Sci!

It's the indenofluorene machine!!! 🏭

HUGE thanks to Vitalii Stetsovych for the amazing artwork (and for putting up with me) and to Roi Poranne for finishing touches! 😍

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With @uohaleylab.bsky.social @judywuchem.bsky.social

At the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry in Copenhagen (sign up here: www.esoc2025.com) chirality and aromaticity will be front and centre. Some our star speakers on this are Hermann Wegner, Agnieszka Szumna, Araceli Campana, Birgit Esser, Chunyan Chi, Jonathan Burton and Hiroyuki Isobe.

PoseBusters: AI-based docking methods fail to generate physically valid poses or generalise to novel sequences The last few years have seen the development of numerous deep learning-based protein–ligand docking methods. They offer huge promise in terms of speed and accuracy. However, despite claims of…

Though the area has seen rapid growth, there are still caveats with AI-based docking methods. In this #ChemSci, Charlotte Deane and colleagues become “PoseBusters”, finding that AI docking methods struggle to generalise novel sequences and to generate physically valid poses.

Check out our 🔥 paper.

Many thanks to my supervisor @guillaumedebo.bsky.social for the incredible support!

Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know
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LAST CALL! We are seeking nominations for the @acspmse.bsky.social Early Investigator and Future Faculty Awards of the @acs.org. Please nominate a colleague before February 1:

#ACS #PMSE Early Investigator: pmsedivision.org/early-invest...
ACS PMSE Future Faculty: pmsedivision.org/pmse-future-...

Chemical Science Lectureship Chemical Science are delighted to launch a new Lectureship in our 15th anniversary year in 2025 to recognise and celebrate the significant contributions our authors make to the chemical sciences commu...

Open for nominations: Chemical Science lectureship to recognize independent researchers at all career stages who made exceptional discoveries and innovations in their field within the last five years. Focus is this time on the chemistry of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics.
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Multicolor 3D-Printed Molecular Orbital Models for a First-Semester Organic Chemistry Course We have developed a set of multicolor 3D-printed structural and molecular orbital models for use in a first-semester organic chemistry course. These models provide visual and tactile insights regarding aspects of organic structure, reactivity, and mechanistic “arrow pushing”. The set includes: 1. orbital models of σ and π bonding in methane and ethylene, 2. σCH–σ*CH hyperconjugation in staggered and eclipsed ethane conformations, 3. LUMO accessibility in SN2 electrophiles and HOMO–LUMO orbital interactions in SN2 transition states, 4. E2 transition state structure and orbital interactions in β-hydrogen removal and π bond formation, 5. σCH–pC hyperconjugation in the ethyl cation, 6. transition state structure and σCH–pC orbital interactions in a carbocation 1,2-hydride shift, 7. late and early, respectively, Br• and Cl• H atom radical abstraction transition state structures and SOMO orbitals, 8. bromonium ion structure and LUMO orbital, 9. protonated epoxide ion and neutral epoxide structures and LUMO orbitals, 10. transition state structure and orbital interactions in a hydroboration reaction, 11. transition state structure and orbital interactions in the lithium aluminum hydride reduction of formaldehyde, and 12. π molecular orbitals in 1,3-butadiene. The prints are made with hobby-grade 5-color 3D fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers and sized to provide compact take-home class handouts for each student or projected in-class with a document camera. Models are fabricated with orbital or electron density surface bisections and text annotations to enhance information content. Student perceptions of this set of 3D-printed molecular models are generally favorable and have improved their understanding of course materials.

Pleased to share this set of ~35 multicolor 3D-printed molecular orbital models for organic chemistry classrooms, developed with students @pomonacollege.bsky.social. Article and 3D print files (no paywall): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#ChemSky #CompChemSky #3DP #3Dprint #3DModels 🧪

Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer - Nature Degradable thermoset multimaterials can be synthesized from a commercially accessible, biosourced monomer using orthogonal polymerizations in a single pot; after selective degredation, the resulting s...

As Jon Stewart said, “It is important in these troubled times to continue to dab on the haters” … and the haters would be loathe to see my first independent work on recyclable/degradable thermosets made from 2,3-dihydrofuran! 🌱🥽♻️

Now on @bsky.app: my group’s account! @somoscampos.bsky.social
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