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Camilla Di Mino
@camilladimino.bsky.social
Physical chemist, occasionally material scientist. Officially research fellow in liquids and disordered materials at University of Oxford. (She/Her)
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Want a PhD next year? Are you interested in phosphorous nanomaterials? Want to learn how to make solar cells? Always wanted to deal with London's rental market? Then oh boy do I have news for you!

Details below, and you can email me if you have questions

#Chemsky #nanosky #PhD
Tuneable Group 15 Nanoribbons for Perovskite Solar Cells
ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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graph-pes is John‘s open-source, all-round software package for fitting & fine-tuning graph-based ML interatomic potentials – do try it out, follow him for updates, and share! #chemsky #compchem 🧪
I've been working hard behind the scenes, and am excited to announce that graph-pes version 0.1.0 is now out!
🚨 Introducing graph-pes: a unified framework for building, training and using graph-based machine-learned models of potential energy surfaces! 🚨

#compchem #ML #ChemSky #CompChemSky
April 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I you (a) like really fancy AFM, (b) like 2D nanomaterials, and/or (c) need a PDRA job in the near future, then boy do I have good news for you.

Advert is now open for an 18 month PDRA position in my group in UCL, London. Closing date 20th May, informal email inquiries encouraged #chemsky #nanosky
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
April 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Spot the @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social Research Fellow hiding in the audience of the Royal Institution (hint: it is @camilladimino.bsky.social aka the one dressed as a banana).

@ri-science.bsky.social #chemsky
April 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Beautiful sunsets on TS1.

#disorderedmaterials #ISIS #neutrons
March 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The sun this morning hit The Queen's College just right.
@ox.ac.uk #oxford
March 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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π holes in water: Solvation of phenol, aniline, and p-nitrophenol substituted aromatics.

Authors: Camilla Di Mino, Daniel T. Bowron, Thomas F. Headen, Michael A. Wilkinson, Tristan G. A. Youngs, Andrea Sella, Neal T. Skipper
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-gbmqn
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We are finally online. We pushed neutron total scattering to look at interfaces in an unprecedented level of detail. Thank you to dream team that made this possible. I could not be more proud to be part of it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturenano.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk
#chemsky
Intermediate-range solvent templating and counterion behaviour at charged carbon nanotube surfaces - Nature Nanotechnology
Neutron scattering on a model system of highly concentrated solutions of charged carbon nanotubes reveals a strong solvent ordering up to ∼40 Å around the charged nanoscale surface.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's pink, and it smells amazing. I might have a new favourite. #Chemsky #phenol #crystals
February 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It was such a pleasure to host Prof Caroline Knapp in Oxford today. The first proper chemistry talk I could ever follow.
Thank you very much again Caroline for coming up to visit us.

@oxfordmaterials.bsky.social
#UniversityofOxgord
#OxfordMaterials
#InorganicChemistry
February 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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If anyone knows AFM of nanomaterials and will be looking for a PDRA job around May next year, consider dropping me an email. Official adverts etc will follow in the new year
December 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters

Konishi* (Hokkaido University)
Saito et al., Chem Comm, 10.1039/D4CC04786A

#Chemsky #nanosky #Science
Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters
Au25(SR)18 nanoclusters decorated with semifluorinated thiolate ligands (SFLs) self-assemble hierarchically depending on the charge state of the nanocluster component; the use of the anionic cluster (...
pubs.rsc.org
December 23, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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We currently have a project on gallium oxide thin films available through the competitive DTP route at UCL (Project ID: 2228cd1383) 🙌Deadline 8th January 2024 📢 Get in touch if you're interested!
More info on the scheme here: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...
Apply for a UCL EPSRC DTP studentship
The UCL EPSRC DTP 2024/25 recruitment is now open.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 15, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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Next up at #F24MRS is the wonderful Anna Regoutz (aka @bluebananna.bsky.social) who is
(i) always great to hear from if you have any interest in using xrays to understand any interface you might care about
(ii) definitely not a traitor for leaving UCL so she could return to Oxford
December 4, 2024 at 3:24 PM
First Hamiltonian I have seen in years. I did not miss it but it was made sweeter by Samuel Yick's great talk at #f24mrs.
December 3, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Well that was fun! The combination of the incredulity of being here with the excitement of talking about science. Fantastic first two days at #f24mrs
December 3, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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🌟 Exciting news! We're now on Bluesky! Follow us and join the conversation with #F24MRS. Stay connected with the latest updates and insights from the materials community!
December 1, 2024 at 7:32 PM
How impressive to see MIT person. Boston is such a lively city, full of students. Reminds me of Oxford in many ways. What a pleasure to be here for #F24MRS. Who's joining ? Come to find me on Dec 3rd at the CH04.04.03 symposium #Boston #MIT #chemsky
December 1, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Racoon catching snowflakes ❄️
November 28, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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I see your immediate vacancy and call with one of my own!

Immediately available PhD studentship (Home fees & stipend) on a MOF/polymers/neutrons/computational project with ISIS, Cardiff and the Ada Lovelace Centre. Original student unable to start so post re-advertised.

#ChemSky spread the word!
Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Nanopasta! Now all we need are nanoantipasto and nanowine, and we can have a lovely meal too small to see with the naked eye. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/11/nano...
Nanopasta, no, really
Fig. 1 from the linked paper Here is a light-hearted bit of research that touches on some fun physics.  As you might readily imagine, there...
nanoscale.blogspot.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Bluesky is really taking off with STEM academics across UCL, so I thought it was time we had our own Starter Pack

#academicsky #chemsky #stem #sciencesky #research #chemeng

go.bsky.app/9ZnMnCd
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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My fantastic office mate @clancylab.bsky.social has made nano-sized pasta, and the world has now lost its mind

chemsky 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM