Adharsh Raghavan
@adharshraghavan.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Chemistry @ UMass Boston • Inorganic / Organometallic Chemist • Ain't no bonding like Metal-Metal Bonding
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#OpenAccess article by Adam Gorczyński 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. #UAM
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Lanthanide contraction-driven modulation of photoswitchable macrocyclic complexes reveals unprecedented glass-induced re-isomerization and luminescence thermometry
Designing light-responsive supramolecular architectures with lanthanide ions offers a promising route towards multifunctional materials with tunable photophysical properties. Here, we report a systema...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#OpenAccess article by Adam Gorczyński 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. #UAM
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
About damn time!! Woohoo!!!! 😁
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks
cen.acs.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
About damn time!! Woohoo!!!! 😁
Ah yes, the British Museum. Because there's just one thing they haven't stolen yet: the show. Not to worry, they're on it.
I couldn't imagine a more self indulgent and annoying group of people to be on an organising committee.
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ah yes, the British Museum. Because there's just one thing they haven't stolen yet: the show. Not to worry, they're on it.
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Due to popular demand, I am sharing my slide deck on #environmental costs of #ML in #compchem & #materials_science www.grynova-ccc.org/other.html - incl. work by @skepteis.bsky.social @pschwllr.bsky.social and others.
Please send any other relevant resources my way, I’ll be maintaining this deck.
Please send any other relevant resources my way, I’ll be maintaining this deck.
Other
3. G. Gryn’ova , T. Bereau, C. Müller, P. Friederich, R. C. Wade, A. Nunes-Alves, T. A. Soares, K. Merz Jr., EDITORIAL: Chemical Compound Space Exploration by Multiscale High-Throughput...
www.grynova-ccc.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Due to popular demand, I am sharing my slide deck on #environmental costs of #ML in #compchem & #materials_science www.grynova-ccc.org/other.html - incl. work by @skepteis.bsky.social @pschwllr.bsky.social and others.
Please send any other relevant resources my way, I’ll be maintaining this deck.
Please send any other relevant resources my way, I’ll be maintaining this deck.
Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
So happy this piece is finally out! A tremendous collaborative effort of colleagues and friends from 8 institutions all over Europe. Thank you! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Photochemistry and photophysics in a single crystal @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @cleracr.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com
Photochemistry and photophysics in a single crystal @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @cleracr.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
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1. Today, 95 Democrats voted to "honor the legacy" of Charlie Kirk, calling him a "model for young Americans."
Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric.
Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride.
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Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric.
Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride.
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95 House Dems, Including Trans Rep McBride, Vote To "Honor The Legacy" Of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who was killed a week ago, had a history of hateful rhetoric and extremism.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
1. Today, 95 Democrats voted to "honor the legacy" of Charlie Kirk, calling him a "model for young Americans."
Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric.
Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric.
Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
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Importantly, the employer files the petition, so the employer would be required to include a $100,000 check with the petition. But the ban on entry appears to also apply to ANYONE with an H-1B currently, and says that petitions must be "supplemented" with a $100,000 fee, so who knows who pays that.
September 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Importantly, the employer files the petition, so the employer would be required to include a $100,000 check with the petition. But the ban on entry appears to also apply to ANYONE with an H-1B currently, and says that petitions must be "supplemented" with a $100,000 fee, so who knows who pays that.
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Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
I never imagined being part of this terrifying experience... Calling campus police for updates, monitoring alerts, and later evacuating my building, feeling more exposed than before. Just a surreal fear limbo. Sure didn't feel like a false alarm with cops, ambulances, firetrucks, and swat on campus.
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I never imagined being part of this terrifying experience... Calling campus police for updates, monitoring alerts, and later evacuating my building, feeling more exposed than before. Just a surreal fear limbo. Sure didn't feel like a false alarm with cops, ambulances, firetrucks, and swat on campus.
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I'm working on double checking citations for my book right now.
Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:
Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:
August 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm working on double checking citations for my book right now.
Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:
Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:
Couldn't be more excited to get started at @umassboston.bsky.social this Fall whilst actively exploring this awesome city!!
I've also switched to @dunkindonutscoffee.bsky.social, per law.
I've also switched to @dunkindonutscoffee.bsky.social, per law.
August 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Couldn't be more excited to get started at @umassboston.bsky.social this Fall whilst actively exploring this awesome city!!
I've also switched to @dunkindonutscoffee.bsky.social, per law.
I've also switched to @dunkindonutscoffee.bsky.social, per law.
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What if we could watch proteins move in real time – see photosystem II turn water into oxygen, for example? Thanks to cutting-edge techniques like serial femtosecond crystallography and XFELs, scientists are doing just that.
Serial femtosecond crystallography reveals protein dynamics in real time
Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures
www.chemistryworld.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What if we could watch proteins move in real time – see photosystem II turn water into oxygen, for example? Thanks to cutting-edge techniques like serial femtosecond crystallography and XFELs, scientists are doing just that.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
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As someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program:
www.nsf.gov
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @umassboston.bsky.social's Department of Chemistry this Fall as an Assistant Professor!
A BIG thanks to my mentors and colleagues who've had an everlasting impact on my career and growth as a researcher and educator.
#chemsky
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A BIG thanks to my mentors and colleagues who've had an everlasting impact on my career and growth as a researcher and educator.
#chemsky
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May 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @umassboston.bsky.social's Department of Chemistry this Fall as an Assistant Professor!
A BIG thanks to my mentors and colleagues who've had an everlasting impact on my career and growth as a researcher and educator.
#chemsky
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A BIG thanks to my mentors and colleagues who've had an everlasting impact on my career and growth as a researcher and educator.
#chemsky
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Donna Nelson grew up in a small US town, and later advised on mega-hit TV show Breaking Bad. Read about her journey through the scientific and cultural landscape in our latest In Situ, as penned by Rebecca Trager.
Donna Nelson: ‘Being the science advisor to Breaking Bad was so much fun’
The well-known organic chemist on growing up in a small Oklahoma town, asking demographic questions and advising a hit television series
www.chemistryworld.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Donna Nelson grew up in a small US town, and later advised on mega-hit TV show Breaking Bad. Read about her journey through the scientific and cultural landscape in our latest In Situ, as penned by Rebecca Trager.