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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · 27d

Come join us in Maine!

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social · 27d

Check this out and come join us!
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The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!

When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.

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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 27d

Need to take note of this #chemsky #compchemsky. For anyone in perovskites this GRC is a legend.

(Sadly, for me too so far. Did not manage to go and need to make a better effort this time! Thank you @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social and other organizers!)

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social · 27d

Check this out and come join us!
👀
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!

When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.

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nanoGe Conferences @nanoge.org · Aug 4

🟣Discover advances in vacuum deposition and hybrid techniques that are expanding the possibilities for halide perovskite materials and devices, enabling new performance and integration strategies at #MATSUS25 @nanoGe_Conf

🔗Submit your poster abstract: https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home

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scanlond81.bsky.social @scanlond81.bsky.social · Aug 4

PLEASE REPOST: We have a 4-year, fully funded PhD studentship focussed on using computational chemistry to find new and improved oxides for X-ray detection, to start in October 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project.... This is open only to UK nationals.

Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

findaphd.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 9

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thanks Laura :)

Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jun 27

Gracias!

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jun 26

Gracias!

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jun 26

As of June 1st, my promotion to Full Professor became official! We celebrated this milestone with the team at our traditional summer BBQ and took the opportunity to take a new group photo 🌟 #best #team, #optoelectronic #materials @erc.europa.eu #NWO #SolarNL

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jun 16

Can we grow #layered #low #dimensional #halides with #PLD?⚡And use this to make #stable 2D/3D #perovskite #heterostructures? The answers in our recently published work 👇.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erc.europa.eu. Great job Junia and collaborators from SAV, FZU and ITQ @pablopboix.bsky.social

Oriented 2D Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides by pulsed laser deposition - npj 2D Materials and Applications

npj 2D Materials and Applications - Oriented 2D Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides by pulsed laser deposition

www.nature.com

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · May 12

Don’t miss Junia’s talk about epitaxial halide perovskites and layered perovskites by room temperature #pld ⚡️

Green Energy Materials Series @gem-series.bsky.social · May 12

Are you tired of all the spin-coating or eaporation of perovskites or do you really want to hear about some exciting alternatives? Then, join us this Wednesday for Junia's talk on pulsed laser deposition -- Pew pew!

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Apr 30

well done YAT! 🙌

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 #𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 on the 𝐏𝐇𝐃 & 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 level!
If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply:
www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions
Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL

Feldmann Lab at EPFL is hiring at PhD and Postdoc Level in Spectroscopy and Nanomaterials

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Apr 11

Super happy to see this cover out! 🤩 it highlights our work on epitaxial halide perovskites published in this issue. The cover was made by Tatiana Soto, alumni of the M3 lab 🌟

Nature Synthesis @natsynth.nature.com · Apr 11

April issue live🌤️
RT epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3
Late-stage deuteration and tritiation
Topotactic transformations in large-pore zeolites
An antimony(III) dication
Capturing aromatic Cr5 pentagons
(continued)
www.nature.com/natsynth/vol...
#ChemSky

Densely packed green balls below spaced out, connected green and orange balls

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Apr 10

There you go.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 9

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work

#AcademicSky #EduSky

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Mar 25

The protests against the proposed budget cuts in higher education in The Netherlands keep on going. Yesterday we had our turn at the University of Twente. And look who I found in the crowd: Linn Leppert @hybridlinn.bsky.social representing 💪

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Mar 19

M³-Lab group dinner to celebrate recent successes and welcome Vojta who visit us from the Czech Republic to continue experiments on high deposition rate PLD of metal halide perovskites. ⚡ #collaborations #teamwork #best_team #MaterialsScience #SolarEnergy

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Mar 2

In our latests work we show template-assisted PLD growth of CsxFA1-xPbI3 films: compositional control and phase-pure growth on planar and textured substrates 🔬. @kraljs.bsky.social and collaborators at EPFL (@pero-pal.bsky.social), EMPA and AMOLF advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Template‐Assisted Growth of CsxFA1‐xPbI3 with Pulsed Laser Deposition for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells

Template-assisted pulsed laser deposition (PLD) enables the growth of phase-pure α-CsxFA1-xPbI3 perovskite films. Stoichiometric transfer and uniform coverage on planar and textured substrates is dem...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Feb 19

Two weeks ago, we have celebrated the third #PhD #graduation from my team! Congratulations Dr. Adeem Saeed Mirza! 🚀 Great defense 👏 and great contributions to the experimental development of #p-type #transparent #conductive #materials 🔍. Work financed by the Dutch Research Council #NWO.

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Linn Leppert @hybridlinn.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes, this happened. Chemistry is affected most badly, but also other departments. Most of the PIs that were laid off had active groups, were publishing, receiving grants, teaching, and doing everything else we are told to do to be seen as valuable members of the academic community /1

Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · Feb 14

Maybe with all that is going on in the states no one noticed, but in the Netherlands the university of Twente has fired 46 people from the chem department. One of them is Jeroen Cornelissen. A giant in the field #chemsky www.utoday.nl/news/75215/p...

Professor Jeroen Cornelissen: 'It could have been more humane'

Professor Jeroen Cornelissen was employed by the UT for no less than 16 years. Until last Monday. His entire department will disappear as of 1 June. His particular concern: what about the students and...

www.utoday.nl

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Feb 2

Just published: Our latest work on #in-situ PL monitoring during #halide #perovskite #growth with PLD.
The key advantage of in-situ PL? It enables growth studies at various deposition rates, achieving up to a 10-fold enhancement in deposition speed of MHP with PLD!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Halide Perovskites with over 10-Fold Enhanced Deposition Rates

The potential of the vapor-phase deposition of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) for solar cells remains largely untapped, particularly in achieving rapid deposition rates. In this study, we employ in s...

pubs.acs.org

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jan 17

Congrats @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social 👏👏

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Thank you!

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Linn Leppert @hybridlinn.bsky.social · Jan 17

Some of the #compchemsky DFT calculations in this paper were performed by Sebastian Reyes-Lillo, the master of strain, from Universidad Andres Bello in Chile, who’s not on Bluesky though.

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Monica Morales-Masis @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social · Jan 17

Super proud of this work! Epitaxial growth of halide perovskites at room temperature by PLD: Beautiful reciprocal space maps 🤩, nice strain calculations by @hybridlinn.bsky.social 💫 and co., and optoelectronic characterization together with Czech Acad. Sci., AMOLF and U. of Oxford. #ERCStGCREATE

Nature Synthesis @natsynth.nature.com · Jan 17

Now online:

Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers

Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition

nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#chemsky

Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition - Nature Synthesis

Pulsed laser deposition is used for the heteroepitaxial growth of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) thin films on a KCl substrate at room temperature. Experimental and computational results conf...

nature.com

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