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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics for experiments that revealed quantum behavior in electrical circuits, showing that even systems made of billions of atoms can obey the strange laws of the quantum world: cen.acs.org/people/nobel... 🧪

Quantum tunnelling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 3d

Paul McCartney, Oct 4 2025

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 14d

ACS Electrochemistry (open) Coupled Benchtop NMR and EPR of Viologen Radicals in a Redox Flow Battery, Giu A. Silva Testa, Mathijs A. Damhuis, Tom Speelman, Kim Baas, Johannes A.A.W. Elemans*, Evan Wenbo Zhao* pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR #BenchtopNMR #Battchat 🧲

Coupled Benchtop NMR and EPR Spectroscopy Reveals the Electronic Structure of Viologen Radicals in a Redox Flow Battery

Viologens are a class of organic molecules with promising properties for redox flow battery applications. However, their molecular-level mechanisms remain challenging to fully probe and understand. In...

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 14d

OMG, thanks for catching! (It's only good for one pulse experiments???)

Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 14d

note: TWT powered, not TNT powered (which would also be cool 💣 💥) TWT = traveling wave tube #NMRchat #EPR #ESR 🧲

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 14d

note: TWT powered, not TNT powered (which would also be cool 💣 💥) TWT = traveling wave tube #NMRchat #EPR #ESR 🧲

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 14d

A paper describing the performance of our new TWT powered 263 GHz pulse EPR spectrometer is now available as a preprint

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Very high frequency (263 GHz) pulse EPR spectroscopy of high spin transition metal centers

Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy provides powerful tools for examining species with unpaired electrons, such as organic radicals and metal ions, in a wide variety of interest...

www.researchsquare.com

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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 16d

We celebrated Fede's PhD defense yesterday 🎉

Together we've been working on cytochrome c oxidase for the last 6-7 years.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. Baserga is looking for a job in tech now www.linkedin.com/in/federico-...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 15d

Postdoctoral research position in Rob Tycko's group in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK #NIH Bethesda, Maryland, development and application of time-resolved solid-state NMR, email your CV incl education & research accomplishments to www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/... #NMRjobs 🧲

Robert Tycko, Ph.D., NIH Distinguished Investigator - NIDDK

www.niddk.nih.gov

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had to run over in the middle and flip it!

R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Sep 5

CD??? We had a 78 rpm vinyl fill track!

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · Sep 5

My grad school lab had a special helium fill soundtrack, which was burned on a CD because that's how long ago it was. We never listened to it at other times, only when doing the fills. It contained the cheesiest songs we could think of, and everyone would sing along at top volume.

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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our article "H2-producing catalysts based on ferredoxin scaffolds" is online with full citation details now!
doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Hydrogen‐Producing Catalysts Based on Ferredoxin Scaffolds

Selected plant-type ferredoxins that lack their natural [2Fe-2S] clusters functionally bind a hydrogenase active site cofactor and act as hydrogenases themselves. In combination with photosystem I, t...

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Sep 5

CD??? We had a 78 rpm vinyl fill track!

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · Sep 5

My grad school lab had a special helium fill soundtrack, which was burned on a CD because that's how long ago it was. We never listened to it at other times, only when doing the fills. It contained the cheesiest songs we could think of, and everyone would sing along at top volume.

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Sep 4

ok, first attempt at a Lotus in Point Richmond seems to be going fine

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 30

is the dimer core of the H-cluster of FeFe hydrogenase formed by rSAM chemistry in HydE?

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

The Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Enzyme HydE Forms an Fe(I)Fe(I) Dimer En Route to the [FeFe] Hydrogenase H-Cluster

[FeFe] hydrogenases are highly efficient metalloenzymes that catalyze hydrogen conversion via a sophisticated active site cofactor known as the H-cluster. Biosynthesis of its [2Fe]H subcluster, which ...

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 27

enjoy!!!

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 23

a company (I will not name here) decided to throw away money by setting up a solar array AND Tesla Powerwall at the house, charge us a flat rate for the next 25 years, and it starts for less that we were paying for PG&E power before. Yes solar is just a fantasy power source.

AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · Aug 23

Good plan, blame the cheapest forms of energy, that'll fix it.

news.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere

With electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, President Donald Trump has lashed out at renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, blaming them for skyrocketing e...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 22

Angewandte Chemie (open) mini-review, Electron Spin Resonance at the Single-Molecule Scale, Lisanne Sellies*, Jascha Repp* onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #EPR #ESR 🧲

Electron Spin Resonance at the Single‐Molecule Scale

This minireview provides an overview of the four electron-spin-resonance techniques with single-molecule sensitivity, relying on either optically detected magnetic resonance or scanning-probe microsc...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 21

What a pair!

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 4

Breanne of Tarth says this place is pretty cool!

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Aug 3

"echo" a clue in NYT connections today, but no obvious words like "spin" or "Hahn"

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Jul 24

ahh, the inherited EPR concept...

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Jul 24

Choir of angels singing, etc. This lab ain’t perfect but I’m glad we could get the floors cleaned before we put another giant magnet in the corner. I am most delighted about this corner behind the spectrometer that hasn’t been scrubbed/waxed in like 30+ years.

A laboratory with VERY shiny floors that have been freshly waxed

A view behind a spectrometer. There are many cables on the floor. In the distance, a section of shiny, clean floor

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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · Jul 19

Writing in @jacs.acspublications.org, Tom @rauchfuz.bsky.social et al. report the synthesis and XRD/FTIR characterization of "Complex-B", the biosynthetic precursor to the [FeFe]-hydrogenase active site cofactor.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Characterization of Complex-B ([Fe(κ3-cys)(CN)(CO)2]−), Biosynthetic Precursor to the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Active Site, and Related Complexes

The preparation, spectroscopy, and structure are described for [Fe(κ3-cys)(CN)(CO)2]− ([2]−). Otherwise known as complex-B, this coordination complex is an early intermediate in the biosynthesis of th...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Jul 18

International EPR Society (IES) Best Paper Awards 2024/2025 @epr-esr.bsky.social ieprs.org/best-paper-a... #EPR #ESR #NMRchat 🧲

🏆 Daniele Panariti (University of Padova, Italy) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🏆 Mikhail Kolokolov (International Tomography Center, Russia) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Proud to see our work on metalloenzymes - and methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR) in particular - featured in the print version of Berlin's @tagesspiegel.de 🤩
⛓️ www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · Jul 13

Mildred Cohn was born 112 years ago today. In the middle of the 20th century she pioneered the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to probe the chemical processes governing the storage and release of energy in ATP. Here is her story!

tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪

From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything) stops. For biologists, it's a critica...

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · Jul 13

for sure!

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · Jul 13

It’s a really big Sarracenia.

Me standing next to an absolutely enormous pitcher plant in a pot. It’s probably over 4 feet in diameter

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