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ICREA prof. @la_UPC, @icmabCSIC, Prof. at CHALMERS, Assoc. Editor at J. Mater. Chem. C, @NanoScientifica & @ConScienceAB

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 30/06/2026
Share your research on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering! With scientists and speakers attending from across the breadth of disciplines working in the field, our #FD_SERS is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on. Submit an oral abstract ➡️ rsc.li/sers-fd2027
Faraday Discussions event on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering,  14-16 April 2027 in London, UK. It indicates that oral abstract submissions are due by 13 July 2026.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Vitamin D is famous for its photochemistry. We have now added a photopharmacology aspect in a wonderful collaboration with the Merk group. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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An Agonist/Antagonist Photo‐Switchable Vitamin D Mimetic Enables Bidirectional Optical Control of VDR
Vitamin D exhibits complex and cell-specific biological effects in multiple tissues via activation of the ligand-sensing transcription factor vitamin D receptor (VDR). The photo-switchable vitamin D ...
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George Williams @gtwsuprachem.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dead excited to share our preprint showcasing some of the effects of incorporating indigo photoswitches into rotaxanes Fantastic work by Alex, and great to be working with @screspi.bsky.social and co! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Cartoon representation of an indigo photoswitch in a rotaxane
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Whassup?
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icmabCSIC @icmabcsic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 for the 20th National School on #MolecularMaterials (ENMM 2026) closes next Monday! 📍 Sitges (Spain) 📅 22 – 26 Feb. 2026 📜Submit your abstract: www.enmm2026.com/abstracts @rseq-quimica.bsky.social @rsef-esp.bsky.social icmab.es/xx-national-...
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Our work @angewandtechemie.bsky.social explores solar energy storage in NBD/QC dimers. We discovered an interplay between structure, fluorescence, and switching. The best system reached an efficiency of 2.9% a record for what we have developed so far onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am excited to share the publication of “Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems - From Surface Science to Functional Devices” This book explores #moleculardesign, performance criteria, computational methods, phase change, #catalysis, and applications. link.springer.com/series/10425
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Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines
Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines is the first comprehensive series of books dealing specifically with single atom and molecule machines. Derived ...
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Homemade panellets with some danish cookies 😎
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apache/ @apache.be · 24/10/2025
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Lorette Fernandez @lorettefernandez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How about a greener alternative medium for molecular solar thermal energy storage!?🌊🌊☀️ Have a look at our latest work "Surfactant-enabled strategy for molecular solar thermal energy storage systems in water" (✨📚First paper as first author!✨) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #chemsky #molswitch
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Lorette Fernandez @lorettefernandez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thanks @helenhoelzel.bsky.social @pmendoncaferreira.bsky.social @nibaggi.bsky.social @kevinmor.bsky.social @zhihang-wang.bsky.social and @moth-poulsen.bsky.social for your contribution to this work @upc.edu @icmabcsic.bsky.social
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Michael Pittelkow @pittelkowlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I have a fully funded PhD position available in my group in Copenhagen: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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PhD fellowship in Organic Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Organic chemistry with a particular focus on supramolecul
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Excited to share the publication of “Enhancing the Statistical Probability Factor in Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion via TIPS Functionalization” in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Alex Barron @alexrbarron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"Spain’s wind and solar growth has reduced the influence of expensive fossil generators on the electricity price by 75% since 2019.... As a result, Spain’s wholesale electricity price was 32% lower than the EU average in the first half of 2025." 🔌💡 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 04/10/2025
Nanomaterials researchers are warning of the threat posed to their discipline by fake microscopy images generated by AI.
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Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing
Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud
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ConScience @conscienceab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Frequency Targeting In #superconducting quantum processors isn’t just a design detail — it’s a scaling bottleneck. Frequency crowding → higher gate error rates. Here we show how we work with this at con-science.se
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Join our quantum and nanofab in Gothenburg, Sweden!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2025
Ukraine Is Beating Russia: What Putin Doesn't Want You to Know youtu.be/JThTysIZfFc
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Ukraine Is Beating Russia: What Putin Doesn't Want You to Know
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icmabCSIC @icmabcsic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New #ICMABResearch published in #ChemSusChem! 📌Norbornadiene Quadricyclane as Multimode Photoswitches: Synergistic Light and Protonation-Controlled Heat Release icmab.es/norbornadien... 📜Read the paper here: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Hakan Bildirir @bildirirh.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Finally out! Our recent work on organic #batteries found its place in @jmaterchem.rsc.org A We investigated the effect of crosslinking/surface area to the electrochemical energy storage performances. #openaccess #chemsky Here you can find more details doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...
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Structure–property relationship in phenothiazine-based hypercrosslinked organic electrode materials through porosity adjustment
A series of phenothiazine-based hypercrosslinked p-type porous polymers were synthesized via a knitting polymerization method, incorporating increasing amounts of benzene as a co-monomer for a systema...
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Recycling of noble metals are extremely important for the long term sustainability of our society. #Metalrecycling is a new direction of research in my group, here is our first publication, which is a review in CCR www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Recent advances in the recycling of precious metals using sustainable chemistry
Precious metals (PMs) such as silver, gold, palladium, platinum, and rhodium are used not just in traditional industries like jewelry, but also in mod…
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Platja d’Aro, Costa Brava
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Anna Clemens, PhD @annaclemens.com · 18/09/2025
Hey, I'm Anna, PhD and academic writing coach! 🙎‍♀️ If you feel like writing is slow and painful, I'm here to help! Feel free to introduce yourself, I'd love to connect! annaclemens.com/about #AcWri #ScienceSky #Academia
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Nicolò Baggi @nibaggi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Just shortly after the 3rd (😱) anniversary of my PhD defense, a work of my thesis got accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org 🚀 If you're interested in dual-responsive #photoswitches, check the link out, it's 💎🔓! #ChemSky #ChemPubs
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Three-state molecular switch based on terarylene photo- or redox-induced reversible isomerisation
Multi-addressable molecular photoswitches whose isomerisation can be triggered not only by light, but also by other stimuli are appealing for the development of novel smart materials as well as for br...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 15/09/2025
⚡️ Denmark just fast-tracked a Ukrainian missile fuel factory near its F-35 base, clearing 20+ laws to let Fire Point start production immediately.
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Denmark Clears Legal Path for Ukraine’s Critical Missile Fuel Factory on Its Territory
A new Danish law facilitates the rapid construction of a factory by Ukrainian firm Fire Point, aimed at producing essential rocket fuel for missile systems.
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Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Ok bluesky I am in the market for a) miracle cures for plantar fasciitis and b) your most unhinged ways of getting yourself to keep going/snap out of a slump - thank youu
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Jiwoong Lee @jiwoonglee.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Turning plastic bottles into a new carbon capture material cen.acs.org/environment/...
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Turning plastic bottles into a new carbon capture material
Aminolyzed PET could help fight both plastic waste and carbon emissions
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Anna Clemens, PhD @annaclemens.com · 12/09/2025
Having a supportive community around you when you write can make the difference between you getting your writing done and just sitting on uncompleted drafts for years. 👀 Not even speaking of the emotional benefits! Writing doesn't have to be lonely or exhausting. #AcWri #PhDchat #Academia
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Ellen Moons @solellen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I am fundraising to help Ibrahim continue his studies as a third-year Physics student at the Islamic University of Gaza, despite the war. The academic year starts on 18th of Sept, online. The tuition fee is €1000. Thank you for your contributions; your help is deeply appreciated. gofund.me/3a9ca20d
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Donate to Help Ibrahim continue his university studies despite the war, organized by Ellen Moons
Hi, I am Ellen, a professor of Physics in Sweden, and I am f… Ellen Moons needs your support for Help Ibrahim continue his university studies despite the war
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ConScience @conscienceab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We would like to congratulate Wouter van der Wijngaart, Johan Elf and co-workers from @uu.se and @kthuniversity.bsky.social on publishing their work on "Culture-free detection of bacteria from blood for rapid sepsis diagnosis" in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Battery technology is cheap enough to enable one to be put into every home, school and hospital so that they use dirt cheap power drawn down at 2am instead of expensive power at 5pm. Quickest easiest and cheapest way to cut fuel bills and reduce need for generator capacity.
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"What is the responsibility of intellectuals committed to fighting fascism and genocide? How do we refuse and resist complicity when our own institutions are complicit? And what might we learn from earlier antifascist and anticolonial struggles?" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Two sides of the pond 😀
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Rebecca Pittkowski @rpittkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Interested in a PhD in materials, electrocatalysis and structure characterization? You want to dive into research & be part of a young, motivated group environment? And you don't mind grey & windy weather in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 a couple of months/year? Apply right here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD fellowship in experimental electrocatalysis
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I am happy to share the publication of our article "Norbornadiene Quadricyclane as Multimode Photoswitches: Synergistic Light and Protonation‐Controlled Heat Release" that is out in #chemsuschem protonation of the pyridine augments to energy storage time drastically. Read: doi.org/10.1002/cssc...
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢pls share We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
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Valentin Rodionov @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is an excellent illustration of how useless the "Impact Factor" metric is. The most influential multidisciplinary chem journals are JACS and Angewandte. They did not make the list. In this short ad hoc 🧵 I will analyze in real time what made the list and why. I have a bad feeling about this.
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Aisha N. Bismillah 🍉 @anbismillah.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Super stoked to see our paper on ‘Coupling Negative Feedback Loops’ come out in @cp-chem.bsky.social 🍌☺️🎉🐒 Huge shoutout to David for being my partner in crime throughout the project! Thanks to everyone else involved and make sure to have a read!
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EZ-C Group @ezc-group.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Our first collaborative paper with the group of Ping Lu has now been accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie...). Congrats to Dongyang for his contribution.🎊@standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #oleds
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Judicious Use of Chalcogens in Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters Leads to OLEDs with Efficiencies Exceeding 36% and Showing Mild Efficiency Roll‐Off
At doping ratios ranging from 1 to 12 wt%, the BN-S and BN-Se-based sensitizer-free OLEDs exhibited nearly unchanged EL spectra with small FWHMs of 27–30 nm and EQEmax of 36.4–43.1%. The BN-Se-based ...
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Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) @rseq-quimica.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🧪 La @RSEQUIMICA ha publicado el segundo volumen de su boletín de julio. Eventos, premios, convocatorias, formación y más 👉 rseq.org?na=v&nk=2060... #Química #RSEQ #Docencia #CienciaEnEspañol #EducaciónSecundaria #QuímicaEnEspañol #STEMEducation
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Boletín RSEQ: nº2 julio/2025
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Had a nice time visiting @chemguyeli.bsky.social at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social yesterday! great discussions and such a special place! thanks again for arranging this!
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Eli Zysman-Colman @chemguyeli.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It was great to host Kasper Moth-Paulson, hear about his great science, and show him around St Andrews
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Comment on @gracegdhan.bsky.social recent work on energy storage molecules in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/energy/solar...
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Curved molecule bottles sunlight and releases it as heat
Liquid anthracene morphs into high-energy isomer to store solar heat for use on demand hours later
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Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo-abad.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In my new Substack post, I highlight Minerva (by Sin and coauthors), a machine learning–driven method that combines Bayesian optimization with automation to rapidly optimize chemical reactions, significantly accelerating conventional process development. open.substack.com/pub/bravoaba...
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Accelerating chemical reaction optimization with high-throughput automation and machine intelligence
Chemical reaction optimisation is central to synthetic chemistry, underpinning a wide range of critical activities, from pharmaceutical drug development to the large-scale production of complex molecu...
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Photoswitchable drugs offer immense #photopharmacological opportunities since the isomers can have different pharmacological profiles. #photoswitches need UV or blue light to be modulated. The light has very low penetration depth and these drugs are limited to application conditions in the skin.
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Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org · 11/07/2025
New featured paper from @moth-poulsen.bsky.social‬ (@upc.edu): New high-throughput platform for photoswitch charactarisation using UV-Vis, LEDs & Python. Cuts material use, boosts reproducibility. Validated several photoswitch classes. #chemistry #photoswitches #openscience doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
A diagram illustrating the system.
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Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Anyone know what this fruit tree is in our front garden? Pretty sure it didn’t fruit last year. Guessing some kind of plum, but don’t want to poison myself 😅 #gardensky
Picture of green leafy tree with small leaves, three light orange/yellow fruits that look like cherries (but yellow) hanging from the branches
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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Getting ready to present at #brsq2025 in #bilbao thanks to Nuria Aliaga and Eliseo Ruiz for organising a great symposium 😃
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