Zack Avery
ztachem.bsky.social
Zack Avery
@ztachem.bsky.social
PhD student in the Preston group working on metallosupramolecular systems at ANU | Analyst at CanTEST | UCNZ alumnus | He/him
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📣 Announcement 📣

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."

Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social

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October 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Jean de Montmollin (@jcedemontmollin.bsky.social ) has destroyed coordination cages to examine their thermodynamic and kinetic stability. The results are summarized in an #openaccess publication in @daltontrans.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#chemsky #EPFL
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Been hoping for this for years!! Congratulations Robson, Yaghi, and Kitagawa- all founders of a field I'm very proud to be part of!! #OzChem
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem
October 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Combining the effects of amides and cyclopentadienyl ligands in a dysprosium single-molecule magnet. Please see the link for our latest collaborative work with @nfchilton.bsky.social group now published in @jacs.acspublications.org, led by Dr Jack Emerson-King:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Magnetic Hysteresis up to 73 K in a Dysprosium Cyclopentadienyl-Amide Single-Molecule Magnet
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) based on dysprosocenium cations, [Dy(CpR)2]+ (CpR = substituted cyclopentadienyl), have set record effective energy barriers to magnetic reversal (Ueff) and temperatures...
pubs.acs.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Hi everyone, here is our latest in Chem Eur J on "Coordination-Driven Orthogonal Ligand Pairings through Dual Hydrogen-Bonding/π-π Interaction Complementarity"

Congrats Jordan, Yo, Nina and Rosie

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Coordination‐Driven Orthogonal Ligand Pairings through Dual Hydrogen‐Bonding/π‐π Interaction Complementarity
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September 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Our review on chemical approaches for the development of peptide therapeutics is out today in Trends in Biochemical Sciences! (@cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social) Great work by Caitlin (@caitlingare.bsky.social) and Andrew (@whiteam.bsky.social)
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From lead to market: chemical approaches to transform peptides into therapeutics
Peptides are a powerful drug modality with potential to access difficult targets. This recognition underlies their growth in the global pharmaceutical…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Jacob Gome's Honours project got published in ACIE. If you like tetrahedra and wish more of them were low symmetry, have a read....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Low Symmetry Face‐Capped Fe(II) Tetrahedra Through Anisotropic Ligand Extension
Low symmetry cages are attractive metallo-supramolecular targets, as they may possess different characteristics to their higher symmetry analogues. There are no current generalisable routes for the f...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM