Are any NIH grants going out the door? Has anyone received funding in 2026? #Chemsky 🧪

Memory Lane: From the steering committee to global researcher, professor, and mentor Our contributor recalls his experience of embracing a global community, and going from mentee to mentor

Memory Lane: From the steering committee to global researcher, professor, and mentor

Our contributor recalls his experience of embracing a global community, and going from mentee to mentor.

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Carter to become next CEO of Dow Dow executive will replace the long-tenured Jim Fitterling, at the helm since 2018

Dow has named Karen S. Carter CEO, effective July 1. She will replace Jim Fitterling, who has led Dow since before its separation from DowDuPont in 2019, and become the first Black woman to lead a major US chemical company.

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This infographic, "MOFs: What are they good for?", defines Metal-Organic Frameworks as crystalline "molecular sponges" made of metal ions and organic linkers. It details four commercial applications: carbon capture using zinc-based CALF-20, safer gas storage for semiconductor manufacturing, harvesting atmospheric water in deserts using aluminum-based MOF-303, and the detoxification of chemical warfare agents. It notes that MOF research won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Researchers working on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at applications of MOFs, including water harvesting, gas storage, and more: cen.acs.org/materials/me...

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Lucas Bao and Zhenfei Liu in Schaap Hall

Thank you to Lucas Bao for visiting #wsuchemistry today and giving a seminar on everything from electrons to ensembles in predictive chemistry. #compchem #chemtalk #ChemSky

And I bought it! On purpose, of course. It would be my forth attempt to test magnesium taurate. (Fifth will follow, but it formally looks fine)

So make your guesses!

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A information from magnesium taurate food supplement label, full of nonsense rubbish. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/NatuGena-Magnesium-Taurate-Bioavailability-Capsules/dp/B0D1CS6Z28

A question to industry folks:

Does GMP and ISO certifications require certain level of education in a company? Like, the level "can perform simple mathematical operations" for at least one person in a company?

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Could your project make the chemical sciences welcoming to all?

Applications to our Inclusion and Diversity Fund closes on 27 April by 17:00 UK Time. If you have a project that could make chemistry more inclusive, there's up to £5,000 in funding available.

Don't miss it - apply now: rsc.li/id-fund

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Business Watch: Borouge International emerges; Regeneron, Telix link for radiopharma Here's what we're watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

Despite the April 7 ceasefire between Iran and the US, the war in the Persian Gulf is far from over.

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The costs of robotic synthesis systems have been significantly lowered:

"A tangible step towards making self-driving laboratories accessible to resource-limited laboratories, fostering broader participation in automated chemical research."

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So grateful for this award, and for the chance to present our group's research at ACS in the Fall! #compchem #chemsky

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Structure of glucose

Does anyone know how to analyze the amount of glucose in a brown-colored solution? (From lysed blue-green algae) Not something I know a lot about. 🧪 #chemsky

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Nine Mn(II) Schiff base complexes show distorted trigonal prismatic geometries, benchmarked against the CSD.

EPR reveals strongly rhombic electronic structure, driven by ligand‑field asymmetry, not geometry.

Read the full study here🔗 ccdc-info.com/4mpVedU

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Dull rubber adapters.

They should make these in funky colors and designs. 🧪 #chemsky

Someone on your lab staff should be the dedicated "bouncer" for lab incidents. Anyone who doesn't need to be in the area gets told to stay away and there's a person responsible for doing that. #ChemSky #SciSky #EHSky

Satellite data reveal rising methane levels Emissions from livestock and shifting atmospheric chemistry drive changes

Atmospheric methane concentrations have been climbing steadily since 2019, causing alarm about whether the world is losing ground on one of its most important climate targets. A new study offers a detailed account of what’s driving that rise.

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Elemental Taoism The giving and taking of electrons

Nonmetals are naturally diverse. What one characteristic do they share? Written for the general reader and chem novice. #chemsky #chemistry #iteachchem

Check out Emma's new @chemistryworld.com story on seven-coordinate Ti(0) and Zr(0), based on research published in Chemical Science! #ChemSky

Read the original article here: doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry The ACS COMP OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides $1,000 to up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present their work in COMP div...

Alice Walker has received the OpenEye outstanding junior faculty award for 2026 from the American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry. Congratulations, @arwalker.bsky.social! #wsuchemistry #compchem #ChemSky

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Academic freedom declines in US and 49 other countries, survey finds The US has seen a particular drop in university autonomy, which has fallen by 50% in the past decade, faster than several countries moving toward autocracy by Krystal Vasquez. People walk down an outside corridor of a university campus.

Academic freedom is declining worldwide, but the US is seeing an especially rapid deterioration across institutional autonomy, or the right for universities to determine who can teach, what can be taught, and who can be admitted onto their campuses. cen.acs.org/research-int...
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Graphic from article abstract

On the front cover of this week's #JACS: "Hydrocarbon Frameworks with Long-Range Order Synthesized via Olefin Metathesis"

Read it here 🔗 buff.ly/g0iVg0Z

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C2MCI invites you to join us for our upcoming Virtual Seminar Series public lecture with Dr. Emy Kim of Queen’s University. @queensuresearch.bsky.social

🎉 Happening at 11am EDT today! Register today and attend live: bit.ly/4mJhDCl
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Ampere-level ammonia synthesis in a tandem plasma–electrolysis system - Nature Synthesis Defect-engineered cobalt rich in twin boundaries and stacking faults drives nitrite-to-ammonia electroreduction at ampere-level current densities, enabling high-throughput plasma–electrolysis air-to-a...

Now online:

News & Views on the Article by Honghui Ou, Guidong Yang & co-workers

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)

Ampere-level ammonia synthesis in a tandem plasma–electrolysis system by Xin Geng & Feng Zhou

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
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Comment: Remastering local sections Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

"The key to advancing local sections is to help build membership engagement while reducing the management burden."

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Narumi harmonic topological index has been proposed in "New topological indices for finite and infinite systems" match.pmf.kg.ac.rs/electronic_v...

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🔥RSC Applied Interfaces 2025 collection of HOT Articles 🔥

Explore the complete collection now (pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...)

#openaccess #MaterialsScience #SurfaceScience #ChemSky

UW lab researcher admits to adding poisonous chemicals to coworker's water bottle, shoes The lab researcher confessed to his colleague and police of poisoning the colleague’s water bottle and shoes. 

Yikes #chemchat #chemsky

Graphical abstract for “Bidirectional skeletal remodelling of SF5-nitrobenzenes into azepine, bicyclic, and benzimidazole frameworks” by Norio Shibata et al.

This week's #ChemSciPicks is from Norio Shibata et al. from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan!

“Bidirectional skeletal remodelling of SF5-nitrobenzenes into azepine, bicyclic, and benzimidazole frameworks”

Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

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