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#ChemSky & #MatSci interested in strategies & schemes (defect&crystal engineering, spatial charge separation, heteroatom doping, cocatalyst engineering, Z-scheme formation) for #CarbonNitride -based #photocatalyst systems:

Dr. Pelicano's research agenda:
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A New Spin on an Old Material:Yu Ogawa’s ERC Project to Uncover How Nature Makes Cellulose –and to Recreate It in the Lab ERC consolidator Grant won by Yu Ogawa

We use #cellulose everywhere–yet don't fully grasp how nature spins its architecture. With an #ERCCoG, Yu Ogawa will uncover this mechanism & rebuild it to blueprint cellulose manufacturing from scratch, testing structures that nature can’t form.
@erc.europa.eu
#MatSci #ChemSky
tinyurl.com/463hdp6a

Postdoc Researcher (m/f/d): Hydration-Governed Colloidal Stability for Sustainable Nanocellulose

@vignolinilab.bsky.social is looking for a #Postdoc: "Hydration-Governed #Colloidal Stability for Sustainable #Nanocellulose".

The project contributes to the ambitious mission of #SusMax, a @maxplanck.de interdisciplinary network to #sustainable #materials
#chemSky #MatSci

tinyurl.com/2hv2zh5t

Blue mug with yellow and white writing with Berkeley and materials science and engineering on the mug Hand holding mug, blue comforter various stuff in background

#UCBerkeley
#MatSci

ARPA-E offers funding for magnetic materials and rare-mineral recovery US Department of Energy offers $60 million for drilling and analytical technologies, materials science

ARPA-E opens $60m in funding opportunities for novel magnet materials, rare-earth element analysis. An exclusive to @cenmag.bsky.social

cen.acs.org/energy/ARPA-... #youHeardItHereFirst #chemistry #magnet #rareEarths #analytical #matsci

Elastic Energy Storage in Biological Materials: Internal Stresses and Their Functionality Harnessing and storing internally generated elastic energy is a clever strategy by biological materials to perform functions like shape transformation, movement, and predation. This review explores h...

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Biological materials have smart ways to generate, store, amplify & release elastic energy (for different functions).
Shahrouz Amini & co. explore how nature uses these “elastic energy batteries” — and how they inspire #materialsscience & engineering.
#MatSci #ChemSky

tinyurl.com/3nrjxcpj

Still time to submit your research until 31 July 2025 for the Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Harvesting themed collection guest edited by Lydia Helena Wong, Robert Hoye, Yun Jeong Hwang, Yanwei Lum and Frank Osterloh

Find out more: blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/03/0... #matsci

I don't think we acknowledge how universal "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is. I referenced it in my dissertation because it works well in describing phase space for HEAs. Keon West also used it to describe intersectionality with racism and other social issues #flatland #matsci #keonwest

Novel nanostructures in blue sharks reveal their remarkable potential for dynamic color-change New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capa...

We’re thrilled to host guest scientist Dr. Viktoriia Kamska, whose research on blue sharks' #structuralColor reveals their potential for dynamic color-change 🦈—and promises ripple effects far beyond the world of sharks.

#ChemSky #MatSci

phys.org/news/2025-07...

Highly Accurate and Fast Prediction of MOF Free Energy Via Machine Learning A major bottleneck in translating computational screening of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to laboratory synthesis is the uncertain synthetic accessibility of computer-generated MOF designs. While M...

Key ingredients to the solution we developed (continued): a novel sequence representation for MOFs (called MOFSeq), and a pretraining-finetuning strategy for LLM-Prop. 4/4

Check it out! #MatSci #MOFs #LLMs #ML
@chemrxiv.bsky.social link: go.shr.lc/4kIQoWN

Proud to support @ioviso.bsky.social — a new startup founded by experts in in-situ & in-operando materials #characterization.

Their services span from preliminary lab-scale testing, through custom cell & setup development, to advanced in-operando measurements at #synchrotrons
#matsci #chemsky

WITec Paper Award 2025 winners announced - Oxford Instruments This year’s prizes reward scientists for their excellent work in material analysis, battery research and medical science.

Shahrouz Amini and his team received the #WITec Paper #Award thanks to their 3D-RISM, which combines confocal #Raman microscopy and #nanoindentation to measure the elastic behaviour of materials under strain in real time & in 3D.

#chemsky #matsci
tinyurl.com/4skuchf4

➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/3hjxzzbk

Can light control motion and group behavior?
@giannijacca.bsky.social shows how
#photonic tools influence both Janus #colloids and #microalgae, revealing new ways to study and guide active matter systems.

➡️Find out more about his research here:
www.giannijacucci.com

#ChemSky #Optics #MatSci

Symbiotic Futures 2.0 - Matters of Activity Symbiotic Futures 2.0 // Interdisciplinary Symposium and Workshop at Kunstgewerbemuseum // 4.7.2025 // Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin // The symposium »Symbiotic Futures 2.0« is ...

Register now for “Symbiotic Futures 2.0” on July 4, 2025 @Kunstgewerbemuseum #Berlin.

Expect interdisciplinary talks, a roundtable, hands-on workshops exploring #wood, wood-dwelling organisms, and wood's innovative, sustainable design potential.

#MatSci #Anthropology #Design

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Congratulations to Dr. Xiaowen Wu on being awarded an Alexander von #Humboldt Postdoctoral #Fellowship ( @humboldt-foundation.de ) for the project:
“ #Polypeptides: A New #Biomaterial for Scalable Structurally Coloured #Materials.”
He joins @vignolinilab.bsky.social

#structuralcolor #matsci

Looks like we're about to be the proud parents of a Drexel Dragon. #Drexel #MatSci

Vacancies

Interested in a research #internship / #MA thesis project?

Join the @vignolinilab.bsky.social to explore #StructuralColors, #Photonics, bio-inspired #Materials, #biopolymers self-assembly.

#Forschungspraktikum / #Abschlussarbeit
#ChemSky #MatSci

www.mpikg.mpg.de/6829610/vaca...

Adji Bousso Dieng honored by the Materials Research Society | CS

Congrats to @adjiboussodieng.bsky.social on being named an Early-Career Distinguished Presenter at the MRS Spring Meeting 2025! This honor is meant to highlight exciting new research directions in materials science. 🐯 #ChemScky #Princeton #VendiScoring #MatSci
www.cs.princeton.edu/news/adji-bo...

DECHEMA Prize & DFG Heisenberg Grant for Felix Löffler

🔵Meet our scientists
@satlab.bsky.social develops innovative #microarray technologies for parallel & miniaturized chemical reactions.
Laser processing+polymer #nanoreactor & solid polymers for delivery & reaction control
tinyurl.com/mr4xh2w3
#ChemSky #MatSci #Biology #Engineering #Physics #CompSci

Probing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials - Communications Materials State-of-the-art machine learning models are often tested on their ability to generalize materials deemed ’dissimilar’ to training data, but such definitions frequently rely on heuristics. Here, an an...

Our paper probing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials discovery is now published at Communications Materials (@NaturePortfolio) #MatSci #AI4Science #Chemsky #Vertaix

📓Link: nature.com/articles/s43...

CECAM - Advancing simulation, analysis and prediction of complex chemical systems using modern chemical graph theory and computational topology

Join us in Lausanne to learn more about how graph theory, computational topology and other descriptors of shape can be used to accelerate simulation and analysis of chemical systems! It will be beautiful in July #CECAM #compchem #matsci #physics #math
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Precision benchmarks for solids: G0W0 calculations with different basis sets The GW approximation within many-body perturbation theory is the state of the art for computing quasiparticle energies in solids. Typically, Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, obtained fro...

New preprint: Precision benchmarks for solids: G0W0 calculations with different basis sets

By Francisco Delesma and @DorotheaGolze @TUD_Science @tudresden_de and collaborators

arxiv.org/abs/2411.197...

#compchem #DFT #theochem #quasiparticles #solidstate #matsci #chemsky

Heavy Atom Cluster Chains with Strong Spin–Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Cations in Mn[PtBi6I12] In the search for new magnetic topological insulators with strong spin–orbit coupling, by following conceptual considerations that have already proven to be suitable, the bismuth-rich subiodide Mn[PtBi6I12] was discovered. Single crystals were grown from mixtures of the elements and BiI3 using a temperature program developed on the basis of thermal analyses. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed a rhombohedral structure of the cuboctahedral cluster anions [PtBi6I12]2–, which are linked into chains via octahedrally coordinated Mn2+ cations. Partial substitution of Mn2+ by Bi3+ and vacancy formation are responsible for a phase width represented by the general formula (Mn1–3xBi2x)[PtBi6I12]. Density functional theory-based calculations and measurements of the electrical resistance showed that the compound is a semiconductor with a topologically trivial band gap. Nonstoichiometry of chain fragments, corresponding to n- and p-self-doping, strongly increases the conductivity, especially along the chains. The compound is paramagnetic at room temperature. Electron spin resonance spectra indicate an increase in spin correlations and the buildup of internal fields below 30 K.

Heavy Atom Cluster Chains with Strong Spin–Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Cations in Mn[PtBi6I12]

Work in Inorganic Chemistry by Rico Friedrich with Michael Ruck @tudresden.bsky.social

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#chemsky #matsci #compchem #semiconductor #SOC #physics #materials

Any #MatSci expert wanna explain to me why my washing machine melted my hoodie?

Computational guide to optimize electric conductance in MoS$_2$ films Molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) is a high-potential material for nanoelectronic applications, especially when thinned to a few layers. Liquid phase exfoliation enables large-scale fabrication of thin f...

New #preprint by Alireza Ghasemifard, Agnieszka Kuc and @thomasheine.bsky.social

Computational guide to optimize electric conductance in #MoS2 films

arxiv.org/abs/2411.11618

#DFT #Openscience #matsci #compchem #TMDs #semiconductors #thinfilms #chemsky #physics

Predicting electronic structures at any length scale with machine learning - npj Computational Materials npj Computational Materials - Predicting electronic structures at any length scale with machine learning

Time for a virtual handshake. Meet #MALA, the Materials Learning Algorithms for predicting the #ElectronicStructure based on #MachineLearning for length scales well beyond standard #DFT. Here we model a stacking fault in a #beryllium slab with > 100,000 atoms. #CompChem #MatSci

tinyurl.com/49apzhbz

Electrical Characterization of a Large‐Area Single‐Layer Cu3BHT 2D Conjugated Coordination Polymer This study investigates the electrical properties of large-area single-layer Cu3BHT, a 2D conjugated coordination polymer, synthesized via the Langmuir-Blodgett method. Electrical characterization re...

Electrical Characterization of a Large-Area Single-Layer Cu3BHT #2D Conjugated Coordination #Polymer in Adv. Funct. Mater.

Work by TJ Liu, M. Polozij & @thomasheine.bsky.social with Enrique Canovas @imdeananociencia.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#matsci #chemsky #materials

Postdoc for the investigation of biomaterial structural properties (m/f/d)

📢Job Offer!🧪
2-y. #PostDoc for the investigation of #biomaterial structural properties: You'll support scientists in designing & performing X-ray #scattering experiments @ the µSpot beamline @ #BESSYII,& assist w.the analysis & processing of data.
#skychem, #Physics, #MatSci

tinyurl.com/bdf8fser

🧪Any science journalists want to have a brief chat about a new research program coming out of ARPA-E? Coming out about #water, #CircularEconomy, #MatSci, and #CriticalMinerals

Now that so many users joined, it feels a godo time to relaunch our doctoral network to #SciSky
#BioSky #MedSci #ChemSky #matSci