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Aisha Mumtaz

@aishamumtaz.bsky.social

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UCL Chemist 👩🏻‍🔬

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Aron ⇋ e⁻ @aronwalsh.github.io · 17/03/2025

I feel seen. @robertpalgrave.bsky.social speaking sense at the @aichemyhub.bsky.social conference #CompChem #ChemSky

Conference presentation containing a meme related to AI chemists being attracted to new materials

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ChemRxiv Bot @chemrxivbot.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Simple surface treatment of conjugated polymers for enhanced cell adhesion using UV-Ozone Authors: Megan M. Westwood, Peter A. Gilhooly-Finn, Ryan P. Trueman, Aisha Mumtaz, Holly Gregory, Joshua P. A. Daoud, Avishek Dey, Robert Palgrave, ... DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-jqql1

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Our preprint on the Faraday rotation of chiral organic polymer films is out! Wonderful collaboration with Tim Swager and his group @mitchemistry.bsky.social and Jess Wade. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social. #Chemsky 🧪 #Physics doi.org/10.26434/che... We learnt a lot in this one, so here's a short 🧵 1/11

Diagram of Faraday rotation: the rotation of linearly polarised light as it passes through a sample under the influence of a magnetic field parallel to the light propagation direction.

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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Original paper here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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When is a Lattice Not a Lattice? The changing meaning of the term lattice in crystallography and physics

The concept of the lattice is central to the understanding of crystalline solids. However, usage of this word can very often differ between crystallographers, f

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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Rob Palgrave (@robertpalgrave.bsky.social) from UCL kicking off the morning after the night before of #SSCGXmas with a talk on the (structural) chemistry of halide perovskites #chemsky

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Aisha Mumtaz @aishamumtaz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Next up... XPS themed biscuits for my visit to Harwell 🤓🍪🧪 #Chemsky

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Aisha Mumtaz @aishamumtaz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Chiral chocolates. The best kind. 🌀🐚 #Chemsky

A hand holding up a chocolate in the shape of a spiral. Box of chocolates shaped as various sea shells in the backdrop.

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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Kicking off our new Bluesky account with news about the world's thinnest spaghetti created by a team including @clancylab.bsky.social. Eco-friendly nanofibers for smart bandages to help bone regeneration. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...

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Chemists create world’s thinnest spaghetti

The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Learn how to chop onions more comfortably, brown onions more quickly, slow fruit browning, and make creamy nacho sauce easily: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc... #PeriodicGraphics #chemsky #bluesci 🧪

Infographic detailing the chemistry behind four kitchen chemistry hacks. The first is slowing fruit browning. Fruits brown due to the oxidation and polymerization of phenols. Adding acids, such as lemon juice, wrapping the fruit in cling film or otherwise blocking oxygen slows browning by reducing the activity of the polyphenol oxidase enzyme.

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Aisha Mumtaz @aishamumtaz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Previous years of chemistry themed biscuits for my research group/collaborators. Any ideas for what to do this year?? #chemsky

Chemistry themed biscuits in the shapes of beakers, conical flasks and benzene in different colours (red, green and blue).

Personalised chemistry themed biscuits for members of my research lab. The biscuits are all cut in square shapes and are decorated in purple, green and red icing. A lot of them have different chemical structures of organic molecules drawn on them.

Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of benzene arranged to make two helicenes that are mirror images of each other. Chocolate biscuits with white icing to draw the double bonds.

Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of lab coats each personalised with names of members in my research group and chemistry related inside jokes.

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anna thee davis @rad-scientist.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

hi nerds I missed u

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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So happy to be on this platform away from dogma and intolerance.... My only worry, what if the crystallographers follow us?!? 🤣 (Just joking, all blue skies from here...)

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