Comment: Sustainable by example Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

For nearly 30 years, GCI has worked to advance green chemistry adoption and has helped catalyze the implementation of sustainable approaches to chemistry and engineering across the globe.

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Guest speaker Gunda Georg with Hien Nguyen in Schaap Hall

Thank you to Gunda Georg for a very interesting Frontiers lecture on the discovery and development of a a non-hormonal birth control pill that targets the retinoid signaling pathway with YCT-529. The pill is undergoing more clinical tests. #wsuchemistry #chemtalk #ChemSky

A man in a blue shirt holds a large box full of empty photo film cassettes.

Lev Bar-av literally shoved his film developer machine out the back door into the rain in 2014. Today, film is 70% of his business again. My latest in @cenmag.bsky.social explores what analog's near-death and revival means for chemicals and film. #photography #analog #chemsky

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Smart underwear: A novel wearable for long-term monitoring of gut microbial gas production via flatus The temporal dynamics of gut microbial metabolism, including how quickly and variably microbes respond to dietary changes, remain largely invisible to…

(it's an electrochemical sensor for hydrogen) #chemsky

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Be on your best behavior Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

Answering questions in an interview can be stressful, but telling stories about your career highlights might even be fun. Investing some time up front in planning, preparing, and practicing can pay big dividends when you are actually in an interview situation.

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Last reaction of the semester before finals in the teaching lab, and I find out that one student’s favorite band is Dio.

Me: LIKE A RAIN-BOW!!!!!

Been rocking out as a class while doing a bleach oxidation for the last two hours.
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When you know your worth, you are finally setting standards.
Who has earned access to you?
Who deserves your energy?
Who is matching yours?
If they don't qualify, do not give them airtime in your life.
#MondayMotivation
#mentalhealth
#chemsky #matsky

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It’s official! Colin Arban, of the Allen Lab, passed his oral exam and is now a PhD candidate. Congratulations, Colin! @mattallen12345.bsky.social #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #phdlife

Trump’s 2027 budget proposes deep cuts to science programs Domestic agencies would face $73 billion in cuts, including reduced funding for scientific research and health and environmental programs

Once again, US president Donald J. Trump seeks deep cuts across federal science programs and agencies in his budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2027.

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What if corrosion-resistant coatings could be formed in minutes using a one-step method?

C2MCI’s Micro & Macro teams have discovered a novel method that enables simultaneous electrodeposition and electropolymerization of NHC films for surface protection.

➡️ Learn more: rsc.li/4tp9Mgq
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Film photography is coming back. Can manufacturers keep up? by Craig Bettenhausen. 35 mm photo film emerges from an automated developing machine.

After years of decline, photography film is again rolling off manufacturing lines, through cameras, and out of processing machines at a steady clip. Read more: cen.acs.org/business/spe...

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⏰ REMINDER: Join the CARB-X team this week for public webinars to learn more about the 2026 funding round! #AMR #IDSky #ChemSky 🧪

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A roughly drawn Journal - J. Amer. Chem. Sock Vol 1 2017. There is a picture of a colourful sock. The title under the picture reads Feet-ure Artical: Tripodal Leg-ands for self heel-ing Applications. The authors are Goldberg (Alex F Goldberg), Campbell (Allison Campbell) and Wang (Linda Wang)

Sitting on the #ACS150 celebration to enjoy virtually. @everywherechem.bsky.social encouraged us to think about our connection to 150 years of presidents. I got one! I once trolled Allison Campbell about her socks. #chemsky #chemchat #acs150

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#performance #management #leadership #career #reflection | Brendan Burkett Since leaving academia 18 years ago, I’ve spent most of my time in a role where I am directly managing people as a reporting officer. My first year in this role was not great. I had never been in a ...

Trying to break the algorithm by actually writing and drawing my own content on LinkedIn! #chemsky #chemchat

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Gas Cylinders Part I Keeping it together under pressure

Part 1 of Lab Safety: Gas Cylinders. It's a rocket, man. thelabsafetyminute.substack.com/p/gas-cylind... #ChemSky #SciSky #EHSky

Graphical abstract for “Mechanism governing the formation of atomically precise dithiolate-protected gold nanoclusters” by Tokuhisa Kawawaki, Yuichi Negishi, et al. from Tohoku University and Tokyo University of Science, Japan.

🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science!

“Mechanism governing the formation of atomically precise dithiolate-protected gold nanoclusters” by Tokuhisa Kawawaki, Yuichi Negishi, et al. from Tohoku University and Tokyo University of Science, Japan.

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

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The technology behind the microelectronics that power our lives. by Michael McCoy. Two people in cleanroom gear inspect a large wafer on which computer chips are being built.

In this column, we graphically explore the intellectual property created in support of computer chips and other electronics. Read more from C&EN: cen.acs.org/business/pat...

For more on the science of microelectronics, check out CAS Insights from CAS: www.cas.org/resources/ca...

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#MaterialsScience #EnvironmentalRemediation #CleanEnergy #OpenAccess #ChemSky

Markovnikov hydroamination of terminal alkenes by phosphine redox catalysis - Nature A phosphine–photoredox catalyst system promotes intermolecular Markovnikov hydroamination of unactivated terminal alkenes with numerous classes of N–H azoles..

Oh and here's the paper if you haven't seen it yet. Not your typical PR3 redox relay: with an Ir photocatalyst in the mix and the help of DFT, the authors suggest a P(IV) intermediate helps effect Markovnikov hydroheteroarylation of terminal alkenes doi.org/10.1038/s415... #chemsky

Stuart Penkett obituary Atmospheric chemist whose laboratory work helped to identify the causes of acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer

Guardian obituary Stuart Penkett (1939-2026) the atmospheric chemist whose laboratory work helped to identify the causes of acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer #chemsky 🧪
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A tall ring of interpenetrated cubes, made of stone.

Spotted in Seoul, Gangseo-gu: the artwork is called "Portal", but I think a good alternative would be "Saltgate". A porous material in some way #chemsky #crystallography

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Almost there! Should definitely make more videos but it's been incredibly busy these last months. #chemsky #compchem

Chemists caught up in travel anxiety at ACS Spring 2026 Long security wait times and the presence of ICE agents at the Atlanta airport were the talk of the meeting between sessions

Chemists caught up in travel anxiety at #ACSSpring2026: Long security wait times and the presence of ICE agents at the Atlanta airport were the talk of the meeting between sessions.

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Quantum prediction versus real lab experiment Study sets computational benchmark, but classical simulation works better

“For the first time, we can directly compare the results from a quantum computer to a complex experiment,” says Alessandro Curioni, vice president of IBM Europe and Africa and director of IBM’s research laboratory in Zurich.

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Uncovered: Turning nuclear waste into glass. Join us as we explore how and why scientists are turning radioactive ooze into glass in Washington State. by Craig Bettenhausen, Fionna Samuels, and Jeremy Barr, special to C&EN. A worker pours glass using tongs.

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, we talk about the use of vitrification to safely store nuclear waste at a former weapons site in Hanford, Washington. Listen now: cen.acs.org/materials/Un...

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The ultimate lab prayer: let these crystals be anything but cobalt formate. 🤞✨ #MOFs #Chemsky #CoordnationChemistry

Chemistry cat meme with white cat cat with glasses and a bow tie. Of course He is risen. Helium is lighter than air

Happy Easter, #chemsky 🧪

Natural protein sequences represent only a fraction of what’s theoretically possible The limitations imposed by evolution have implications for AI tools trained on existing sequences and de novo protein design

New research suggests that natural protein sequences haven’t evolved into as much diversity as what is theoretically possible.

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Contrails form even when airplanes produce less soot Preventing contrails could help cool the planet, but the aviation industry will have to keep innovating

In spring 2023, scientists aboard a research aircraft chased an Airbus A321neo off the coast of France to measure its engine emissions and collect data on the contrails it left in its wake. Surprisingly, the data show that contrails still formed even when the engines produced less soot.

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A fragment of a food supplement label with following information: INGREDIENTS / ZUTATEN / INGREDIENTI / INGREDIENTES / INGREDIENTS EN Magnesium Bisglycinate Powder 250mg, (Providing 50mg of Magnesium) (13% NRV), Magnesium Citrate 161mg (Providing 50mg of magnesium) (13.33% NRV), Microcrystalline Cellulose PH/BD102, Magnesium stearate, HPMC Capsule.

Have you ever heard about electrides - ionic compounds in which an electron serves the role of the anion?

Do you know that you can simply buy an organometallic electride in form of a food supplement?

What, you don't trust me? Let me show with this stuff!

#chemsky #chemchat #SupplementsSaga

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