📣 Announcement 📣

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."

Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social

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✨Spotlight✨

The Bob Hay Award Lectureship 🏆

Given in memory of Prof. Bob Hay by a chemist within 15 years of PhD completion, for exceptional research contributions to the MASC field and/or exceptional service to the community.

Deadline 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

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Through use of perfluorinated ligands to induce dihedral twisting, our group reports the first stable Pd8L16 square antiprism as a new member of the PdnL2n family. Now out in
@jacs.acspublications.org with work led by @soumalya.bsky.social with @steppphhhen.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The 2025 MASC Group Awards are all open for nominations, with the following deadlines:

🏆 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 Bob Hay Award Lectureship. 📆 5th Sep

🏆 MASC Group PhD Thesis Award. 📆 7th Nov

🏆 MASC/WISC EDIA Award. 📆 5th Sep

More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

Delighted that our review on the Encapsulation of Reactive Species within Metal-Organic Cages is now out in Chemical Science:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Written by @soumalya.bsky.social and Martin Black
@chemicalscience.rsc.org