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Anna Tanczos
@scicommstudios.bsky.social
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#scicomm #sciart. PhD Chemist, 3D artist and animator, bringing you images and videos of science (covers, video, web content etc.
message if you need visuals to promote your work)💊🐡🧫🧪⚗️🧶🧬
www.scicommstudios.co.uk, https://www.youtube.com/@SciCommStudios
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Hot off the press! new #CoverArt for @kasperspedersen.bsky.social Read the article here www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...
Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

🐡🧪⚗️ #Cinema4D #compchemsky
a molecular network showing the movement of electrons between the metal atoms and aromatic rings
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Some more #coverart for @rscbooks.rsc.org. Functional Layered Double Hydroxides. 🐡🧪⚗️ #Cinema4D #compchemsky
Functional layered double hydroxide
October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Happy Monday! Here is some more cover art for @rscbooks.rsc.org This one was for 'Sustainability in TIDES Chemistry'
#coverart 💊🐡🧪⚗️🧶🧬 #Cinema4D #compchemsky
A protein structure rendered to look like vegetation. Moss for the helices and some leaves and then the amino acid side chains as thin sticks and balls
October 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Some more cover art for a book called 'Mulit-functional Electrocatalysts'
@rscbooks.rsc.org

#coverart 🐡🧪⚗️ #Cinema4D #compchemsky
Positive and negatively charged nodes with field lines shown, atoms drawn to the respective charges and water molecules in the middle.
August 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Some more cover art, this time for a book on photo-functional materials for
@rscbooks.rsc.org

#coverart 🐡🧪⚗️ #Cinema4D #compchemsky
The molecule on the left is being activated by a light beam, resulting in 2 bonds breaking forming the 2 molecules on the right hand side
August 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Some more #coverart for @rscbooks.rsc.org Nanocomposites as Catalysts in Organic Reactions
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A selection of inorganic structures coming out of a volumetric flask to represent a variety of catalysts
August 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Some cover art for a book called 'Epigenetic Drug Discovery' @rscbooks.rsc.org
#coverart 💊🐡🧪⚗️🧶🧬 #Cinema4D #compchemsky
nucleosome, molecules, proteins and DNA
August 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Some #coverart for @profdaveleigh.bsky.social et. al. in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit. Check out the work here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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main image showing the spontaneous assembly of catenanes. With a collection of already assembled molecules round the bottom edge of the circle
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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G is for gamma linolenic acid, found in seed oils such as evening primrose .... a return to the 2025 #AlphabetofMolecules after a break to get some work done! thanks to @meghanazad.bsky.social‬ for the suggestion🙂

Anyone got a molecular suggestion for the letter H?
💊🐡🧪⚗️ #sciart #compchemsky
Gamma linolenic acid, shown here as a ball and stick model with the carbons coloured/textured like oil supplement capsules (oxygen red and hydrogen white balls). Evening primrose seeds scattered on the floor underneath.
July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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F is for 2′-Fucosyllactose in the 2025 #AlphabetofMolecules seen here bound inside the 2'-fucosyllactose and 3-fucosyllactose binding protein from Bifidobacterium longum infantis (6HUR.pdb). Ta for the suggestion @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social
Thoughts for the letter G??
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2′-Fucosyllactose seen here bound inside the 2'-fucosyllactose and 3-fucosyllactose binding protein from Bifidobacterium longum infantis Carbon: pale yellow, oxygen: pink, hydrogen: white. Ribbon structures in the background out of focus
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This is estradiol for E in the 2025 #AlphabetfMolecules, seen here bound inside the oestrogen receptor. Thanks for the suggestion @ydnew.bsky.social and @andimkennedy.bsky.social😄 pleasingly completed in 1 day😁
Now looking for a candidate for the letter F, any thoughts?
💊🐡🧪⚗️🧶🧬 #compchemsky #Cinema4D
Estradiol inside the oestrogen receptor, with main binding amino acids as fluffy pink clouds and a few bits of ribbon structure just about visible. Carbon light pink, oxygen red, hydrogen white
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Here is a recap on the first 4 in the 2025 #AlphabetOfMolecules, follow to see how it unfolds. You can contribute to the molecule selection list and find out which letters are hardest to find molecules for! or just enjoy some colourful #SciArt . New image weekly-ish....or sooner
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Adenosine triphosphate, with blurry molecule in the foreground which is ATP losing one of its phosphates to give ADP. Carbon: grey, oxygen: red, nitrogen: blue, hydrogen: white and phosphorous: fiery to represent the fuel nature of ATP Beta carotene molecule, ball and stick structure visible within larger spheres, with carrots blurry in the background. A chloroform molecule floating in the air, next to a skull and crossbones resting on a cloth...presumably the cloth used to administer the fatal dose of chloroform! Diazepam, the background is human serum albumin with the key binding amino acids blurry and the rest of the protein as a fuzzy pink ribbon structure. Diazepam is a ball and stick model, carbon=black, nitrogen=blue, hydrogen=white, oxygen=red, chlorine=green.
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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This is diazepam for D in the 2025 #AlphabetfMolecules, seen here bound to human serum albumin. Thanks all for the suggestions😊after much consideration I settled on this one by @drijackson.bsky.social
Now looking for a candidate for the letter E, any thoughts?
💊🐡🧫🧪⚗️🧶🧬 #sciart #compchemsky
Diazepam, the background is human serum albumin with the key binding amino acids blurry and the rest of the protein as a fuzzy pink ribbon structure. Diazepam is a ball and stick model, carbon=black, nitrogen=blue, hydrogen=white, oxygen=red, chlorine=green.
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Here is chloroform, for the letter C in the 2025 #AlphabetOfMolecules. Thanks to Pauly G‬ ‪@thegibbs.bsky.social‬ for the suggestion.
What shall I do for the letter D??? all suggestions welcome😀
💊🐡🧫🧪⚗️ #sciart #compchemsky
A chloroform molecule floating in the air, next to a skull and crossbones resting on a cloth...presumably the cloth used to administer the fatal dose of chloroform!
April 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The letter B in the 2025 #AlphabetOfMolecules Thanks to ‪Nick Fisher‬ @nef.bsky.social for the suggestion of Beta-Carotene. Would anybody got a suggestion for the letter C?🙂
💊🐡🧫🧪⚗️ #sciart #compchemsky
Beta carotene molecule, ball and stick structure visible within larger spheres, with carrots blurry in the background.
April 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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.. DNA/RNA synthesis, a signalling molecule, chemical transport, fuel for muscle contractions ..

Thank you all for the other great suggestions, it was a tough choice (I do feel that I may make an image for arsacyclopentadiene in the future too😂)

So, what's next? who has got a suggestion for B?
Adenosine triphosphate, with blurry molecule in the foreground which is ATP losing one of its phosphates to give ADP. Carbon: grey, oxygen: red, nitrogen: blue, hydrogen: white and phosphorous: fiery to represent the fuel nature of ATP
April 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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It could be a small molecule, drug or other compound, medical or industrial, synthetic or from a plant, microbe or animal, it could be a protein. Some letters are more problematic than others!! *and I can't guarantee that it won't take longer than a week😂
These are the molecules selected last time.
26 images of molecules, one for each letter of the alphabet
April 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This one is for Caffeinated Puppy @caliber404.bsky.social THC-P as requested. You got me on a quiet day wondering what to do with my time😆 Thank you for the distraction from my boredom😊 For anyone wondering, only difference from THC is a slightly longer tail
🧪⚗️🐡🌾 #CompChemSky #SciComm #CoverArt #c4d
a THC-P molecule. Carbon green, oxygen red, hydrogen light yellow with cannabis leaves. There are also some leaves floating in the background
April 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Good morning Bluesky! Here is a study of fructose
🧪⚗️🐡🌾 #CompChemSky #SciComm #CoverArt #c4d
D-fructose: carbon represented as green spheres looking a bit like Granny Smiths apples, oxygen red spheres and hydrogen slightly translucent and smaller white spheres
April 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I've been absent for a bit as busy with work but am back now with some more #chemistry #coverart😊🧪⚗️🐡#SciComm #c4d
an orange-ish sphere with short purple spikes that attract green spheres that bond together to create longer strands of a micelle
April 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Here are some prime knots🐡🧮#SciComm #motiongraphics #c4d #topology
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Frivolous fluffy Friday😀. This is curcumin, the principal curcuminoid of Curcuma longa (turmeric)🧪⚗️🐡🌾 #CompChemSky #SciComm #CoverArt #c4d
December 13, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Bovine beta lactoglobulin angles, this is 2gj5.pdb. Showing an additional alternate site for the binding of vitamin D3. The most well known site is the first, enclosed one. The proposed second is more external, discussed here doi.org/10.1002/prot...
🧪⚗️🧶🧬🐡 #CompChemSky #SciComm #c4d
December 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Ergothioniene. An amino acid found in various organisms but only synthesized by a few, such as some mushrooms and certain bacteria. It is used as a dietary supplement but there is little evidence to support any proposed uses.
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#CompChemSky #SciComm #CoverArt #c4d
an ergothioneine molecule on a tree trunk next to some shiitake mushrooms...with a ball and stick version faded into the dappled light from the tree leaves
December 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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NMDA receptor with xenon entering. Xenon acts as an antagonist and can be used as an anasthetic.
🧪⚗️🧶🧬🐡 #CompChemSky #SciComm #mograph #c4d
December 5, 2024 at 5:28 PM