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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 14h

Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript?
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share our work on synthetic lectins for glucuronate featured as cover art! @pubs.acs.org #MyACSCover bit.ly/4o8oA0S

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · Aug 1

Proud to share our new paper in ACS Central Science! We show that hydrogen bonding—often considered ineffective in water—can enable strong, selective binding of the hydrophilic carbohydrate glucuronate, when combined with [C–H···π] and electrostatic interactions. bit.ly/4o8oA0S

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Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our latest paper shows emissive organic cations can be brought together by certain counterions, giving emission from the monomer, excimer or dimer state

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Counterion‐Mediated Luminophore Dimerization

Emissive organic salts have long been integral to the discovery of fluorescence phenomena and functional luminescent dyes. Typically, one component of the salt acts as the photoactive unit (luminopho...

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Margaret E Schott @pegdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 28

First page of Irving Langmuir's laboratory notebook from his time at Göttingen, where he obtained his PhD with Nernst. Dated 6 August 1904. Image was taken at the U.S. Library of Congress (yes it's still open).

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · May 30

In collaboration with Prof. Hongliang Chen, we reported perylene diimide-based molecular wires encapsulated by XCage, which effectively insulates the molecular wire, suppressing charge disturbance and shielding radiation within its interior, making it a molecular-scale Faraday cage. bit.ly/4jnOkmj

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · May 20

Check out our latest work @chemistryeurope.bsky.social
on a dicationic tetralactam macrocycle that binds hydrophilic sulfate in water. Structural and thermodynamic studies highlight the critical roles of H-bonding, electrostatics, and water release in overcoming desolvation barriers. bit.ly/4ky5QFH

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Chenfeng Ke @chenfengke.bsky.social · Apr 5

Binding hydrophilic molecules is challenging due to high hydration energy. So why not bind them with their water? Our work (the Cai group at USF and us) shows a flexible proline cage capturing fluoride along with its hydration shell with strong affinity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proline-based tripodal cages with guest-adaptive features for capturing hydrophilic and amphiphilic fluoride substances - Nature Communications

Proteins dynamically adjust their conformations to interact with their ligands through binding sites that accommodate either amphiphilic or hydrophilic substrates, but most synthetic receptors are des...

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · May 3

Big congrats to Qingkay & the Zhang group team (@ncstate.bsky.social) on the new @jacs.acspublications.org article! 🎉🧪 We show how tuning hydrazone emission leads to fluorogenic PALM probes unlocking high-res live-cell plasma membrane imaging. 🔬✨

Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3EKwxHT
#MolSwitch #ChemSky ⚗️💡

Photoswitchable Fluorescent Hydrazone for Super-Resolution Cell Membrane Imaging

Advancing the field of super-resolution microscopy will require the design and optimization of new molecular probes whose emission can be toggled “ON” and “OFF” using light. Recently, we reported on a...

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Apr 26

Click chemistry is a powerful way to stitch molecules together — but in our new @jacs.acspublications.org paper bit.ly/4cNBqMK we find that not all triazoles are equal! When it comes to #photoswitch the 1,5-regioisomer (not from "click") surprisingly outperforms the classic 1,4🧪⚗️ #molswitch #chemsky

“Clicked” Hydrazone Photoswitches

The length of the linker connecting a photoswitch to a material significantly influences the latter’s properties, with “zero-length” linkers being ideal for optimal photomodulation. The 1,2,3-triazole...

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · Apr 9

Glad to see our work on charge assisted hydrogen bonding for anion recognition in water is selected as the 2024 most polular articles by @chemicalscience.rsc.org. Check it out: rsc.li/4dgwyOI

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · Feb 13

Excited to see our mini review featured as the front cover of @cp-trendschem.bsky.social . The cover art illustrates hydrogen bonding receptors making a splash in water, highlighting the growing significance and exciting opportunities of this emerging field in supramolecular chemistry.

Trends in Chemistry @cp-trendschem.bsky.social · Feb 12

🌊 We're making a splash with the February issue of Trends in Chemistry, online now! Our cover article comes from @vincentchemistry.bsky.social and team, reviewing recent progress in designing receptors that form strong and selective hydrogen bonds with guests in water:
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The February cover of the journal Trends in Chemistry features a choppy blue body of water, with some chemical structures of molecules falling from the sky into the water and binding with small molecules in the medium.

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Lyle Isaacs @lyleisaacs.bsky.social · Jan 22

Very pleased that my first post presents these affinity tunable partially sulfated pillar[5]arenes lead by Ayona Goswami. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Partially Sulfated Pillar[5]Arenes: Synthesis and Molecular Recognition Properties

A series of pillar[5]arene sulfates P5Sn with different numbers of sulfate ionic groups are synthesized and fully characterized by spectroscopic, crystallographic, and computational methods. Isotherm...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jan 22

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to a $1.4 billion loan for a project that will use an emerging technology to separate lithium from geothermal brines in California. cen.acs.org/energy/energ...

US bets on new lithium extraction technology

Department of Energy commits to $1.4 billion loan for small California firm

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jan 20

Twelve identical helical macrocycles assemble to form this right-handed snub cube supramolecule. The new snub cube supramolecules’ creators say they could be used for chiral separations or asymmetric catalysis: cen.acs.org/materials/na... #chemsky🧪 #scinews

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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · Jan 8

Check out this supramolecular snub cube. Cool chemistry from Huang Wu and the late Fraser Stoddart of the University of Hong Kong along with Wenping Hu and Yu Wang of Tianjin University. My latest in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/materials/na...

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Jan 9

In his last email to me just before Xmass, Fraser asked me to keep an eye for this @nature.com paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). It is "a blockbuster in my humble opinion" eh added. His excitement about the project and pride in the students who work on it for 5 years was palpable. RIP Fraser

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Wenqi ‘Vince’ Liu @vincentchemistry.bsky.social · Jan 12

Check out our review @cp-trendschem.bsky.social on recent advances in synthetic hydrogen bonding receptors in water—mimicking nature's precision in aqueous molecular recognition. Dedicated to Sir Fraser Stoddart and Dr. Wei Jiang for their unwavering support and enduring inspiration. bit.ly/3C6GBK0

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · Jan 3

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Tributes paid to University of Sheffield Nobel Prize winner

Sir James Fraser Stoddart, a former University of Sheffield lecturer, has died at the age of 82.

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · Jan 2

A more extensive news story from Northwestern about Fraser 👇 #Chemsky

Sir Fraser Stoddart, a pioneer in nanoscience, dies at 82

Stoddart received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on molecular machines

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Dec 13

Our 3D volumetric display is on the front cover of the December issue of Chem! Congrats to all involved including awesome collaborator @alexlippert.bsky.social 🧪⚗️#molswitch #photoswitches bit.ly/4ckn44N

Metalic robotic hands gifting a ref cube in which a blue pyramid is engraved

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Jeremiah Gassensmith @gassensmith.net · Dec 14

A second paper on tuberculosis vaccines! Here, we present two new transmembrane protein antigens in a proteoliposome. Proteoliposomes are too delicate for a TB vaccine, so, of course, we cover them in MOFs. Shena (probably not on Bsky) showcases her work on that other site:

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 24

How to write a grant?
1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant.
2. Communicate in stories.
3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps.
4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading.
5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2315735121

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Andreas H. Laustsen-Kiel @andreaslaustsen.bsky.social · Nov 22

A huge thanks to @natureportfolio.bsky.social for shining a light on the often-overlooked issue of #snakebite #envenoming and our recombinant #antivenom research at the Center for Antibody Technologies at the Technical University of Denmark. Check out the article here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Next-generation snakebite therapies could reduce death toll

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. Treatments that are simpler to administer and more effective than conventional antivenom could curb this number.

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Kristin Hutchins @kristinhutchins.bsky.social · Nov 19

#Myfirstpost and looking to reconnect with the #chemsky! My group is interested in organic supramolecular chemistry and stimuli-responsive crystalline solids. Last year we moved to the University of Missouri Department of Chemistry (chemistry.missouri.edu) and MatSci (msei.missouri.edu/)!

MU Materials Science & Engineering Institute

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