Our recent Chem. Sci. review article 'Encapsulation of reactive species within metal–organic cages' has been selected as one of the most popular supramolecular articles of 2025 based on a range of metrics. #ChemSciMostPopular
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The group is advertising for a new postdoctoral research fellow/associate to join our team on for 18 months, looking into new structures and functions of metal-organic cages.
Deadline Friday 6th March 📆
Full details can be found here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM785/r...
Informal enquiries welcome
The group has a new preprint out on ChemRxiv, continuing our work into understanding intermediate-sized palladium cages: A framework for accessing elusive intermediate-sized PdnL2n (n = 8, 9) metal-organic cages.
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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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✨Spotlight✨
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
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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
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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
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Delighted that our review on the Encapsulation of Reactive Species within Metal-Organic Cages is now out in Chemical Science:
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Written by @soumalya.bsky.social and Martin Black
@chemicalscience.rsc.org