Getting ready for Zauberflöte at the Semperoper in Dresden. The last-minute seat is going to be interesting. My very first opera was this one, with Claudia Felser in Frankfurt, 25 years back.

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Astonishing work from Neutronsabound Piero Canepa and others: Aluminum formate, Al(HCOO)3: An earth-abundant, scalable, and highly selective material for CO2 capture science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

CO2 Capture! Al(HCOO)3, one of the simplest and cheapest MOFs, shows good performance in CO2 capture. Great collaboration among Neutronsabound Dinesh Mullangi Zeyu Deng (Jerry) Yuxiang Wang Shingbo and others, supported by Piero Canepa and Tony, Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Amazing news Sinéad Griffin Well deserved.

Sir Tony Cheetham is named as a Highly Cited Researcher 2022 by Clarivate for Academia & Government. Congratulations Tony for making it in fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers. See the full list bit.ly/3fPhNLo #HighlyCited2022

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The CD phenomenon has been a big puzzle to us for some time. We think now we have a better understanding on the CD mechanism in chiral metal halide thin films. Revealing the Intrinsic Chiroptical Activity in Chiral Metal-Halide Semiconductors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Nice work from Haipeng Lu Revealing the Intrinsic Chiroptical Activity in Chiral Metal-Halide Semiconductors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

This is how I drag the Raman noodles. Anyone knows the chemistry that makes the flour so elastic ?😝😝😝😝😝

The wonder is that the student knows Pink Floyd?

Delighted to learn that former @UCSB_chemistry undergrad Margaret Lumley (interned with Megan M. Butala, PhD from Wisconsin) is a Forbes 30 under 30 for 2023: forbes.com/profile/margar…

This week, our own Betinna Lotsch Group will deliver the Sheikh Saqr Materials Lecture at the 2022 International Winter School On Frontiers In Materials Science in India - a special annual lecture series supported by ICMS and RAK-CAM. Enjoy the experience, Betinna!

We wrote a paper showing that biomolecular condensate phase diagrams can be measured by imaging water-in-oil emulsions, without direct handling of the dense biomolecular phase. We then used the method to measure various DNA nanostar phase diagrams. Short thread follows...

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