Another episode from the series #labsetup: Last pieces for our NMR have arrived. Installation is the next step before cool experiments with ionic liquids and molten salt (we can even measure certain lanthanides!) Thank you Novo Nordisk Foundation & Villum Fonden Science at VILLUM!

Labsetup continues: The spectrofluorometer has arrived! We are excited to electro- & photoexcite our materials that range from photocatalysts, bioimaging to materials for light sources. A BIG thank you to Carlsbergfondet

Joining the power of ionic liquids and microwaves allows to make solid solutions that are otherwise difficult to obtain - read more at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Thank you Villum Fonden for supporti!

I shout out to all the bright scientific minds out there - the Ionic Liquids GRS is a great scientific/career&network event for you. (Disclaimer: invested in it personally as I launched it years back.)

Cool stuff from our lab, but with a lot of frustration! Frustration can be the key for materials enabling a new era of electronic devices: Making a Hedgehog Spin-Vortex State Possible: Geometric Frustration on a Square Lattice | Chemistry of Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Nanoparticles have stunning properties and they sometimes ask us to revise commonly accepted views about their properties. Congrats to Rui Shi 石瑞 for the magnificent work and Science at VILLUM for supporting us! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

That is how a JACS first author looks like. Read cool stuff from Rui Shi 石瑞 at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Thank you Science at VILLUM 💡

Researchers Rui Shi 石瑞 Anja Mudring from Aarhus Universitet manage to reveal the overlooked significance and potential of surface site occupation of Ln3+ in manipulating the luminescence of Ln3+-doped nanocrystals. Just out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Energy & Materials! One of the perks of being on Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / BESSY@HZB 's scientific advisory board is that you see how the starship is run 😍

Removing halogens from Ionic Liquids: Sichao Li et al. show bulk and interfacial (electroresponsive) nanostructure for modified orthoborate ILs in a "green oil" using neutron scattering and reflectivity! ANSTO Dr. Oli Hammønd @anjamudring @markwrutland go.acs.org/9gl

LOBSTER 5.1, soon to be released, allows for automatic fragment (!) #compchem orbital analysis from plane waves, like in EHT, but now DFT-based. Fragment orbitals in solids, eventually, thanks to Peter Müller's clever algorithms. Check this paper, please: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our team (Gerd Meyer, Thomas Albrecht (@TEAS_Actinides) and Robin Rogers) managed to land a 60 Mio. DKK grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation to look into molten salts for energy a sustainable, safe and stable energy supply: novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/novo-n…

LOBSTER 5.1 ready for download at cohp.de, with plenty of new features for #compchem studies. Please check for the automatic (!) fragment (molecular) orbitals, allowing FMO analysis from plane waves, like in good ol' EHT, but now based on DFT.

Intermetallics keep to amaze with their puzzling properties. Read more in a recent joint work with our colleagues from Genova: Unusual superconductivity in crystallographically disordered RT2−xSn2 ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

On a "softer" note: Ionic liquids, room temperature molten salts, can be tailored for specific applications, involving particular properties such as electroresponsivenesss. Our REFIT team discovered the critical role of anions in controlling this feature: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

It's the kind of day that makes you think. Harald Hillebrecht, a great solid-state chemist and really nice colleague, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 64. What a tremendous loss, personally and scientifically. RIP.

New work on functional intermetallics from our team at Aarhus University, Denmark with colleagues from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine: Ternary gallide Zr7Pd7–xGa3 x (0 ≤ x ≤ 1.8): Synthesis, crystal and el... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There is still new to discover in the area of optical materials! Read more from our collaboration with colleagues from Poland and France: Unusual emission from 2F5/2 two lowest excited levels of Yb3 -doped Lu... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Advancing green chemistry performance assessment: the Estée Lauder Companies’ continuing journey towards meaningful transparency - now published in Green Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…