Maria Southall
mgiannakou.bsky.social
Maria Southall
@mgiannakou.bsky.social
Executive Editor, Royal Society of Chemistry
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
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Read our cross-journal themed collection celebrating the 130th anniversary of Tianjin University and 100 years of their Chemical Engineering, featuring articles from Tianjin University researchers in sustainable chemistry and chemical engineering!

Browse the collection here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Do you want to stay ahead of developments in AI and learn first-hand experiences of applying them in your chemistry work?

Join leading experts to discuss best practice tips for working across disciplines.

Register now: https://rsc.li/4m2xzOU

#ChemSky
September 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Don't forget the Meet the Editor session at the booth at 6pm today!!! Catalysis Editor-in-Chief Bert Weckhuysen and Associe Editors Nuria Lopez and Xiulian Pan will join me to answer all your publishing questions! #chem #catalysis #rsc #Europacat
What a great start to EuropaCat 2025. Come and find me at booth F32 to talk about all RSC catalysis and sustainability journals! @mgiannakou.bsky.social @reactchemeng.rsc.org @greenchemistry.rsc.org @rscsustainability.rsc.org @ees-journals.rsc.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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What a great start to EuropaCat 2025. Come and find me at booth F32 to talk about all RSC catalysis and sustainability journals! @mgiannakou.bsky.social @reactchemeng.rsc.org @greenchemistry.rsc.org @rscsustainability.rsc.org @ees-journals.rsc.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Attending EuropaCat? Please come and meet me at booth F32 to discuss about Catalysis Science & Technology and all things RSC..
Bert and I will host a "Meet the Editor" session with CS&T Associate Editors on the 2nd September, can't wait to meet you!
CS&T Editor-in-Chief Bert Weckhuysen & Executive Editor Maria Southall are attending #EuropaCat in Norway, and will be at Stand F32!

🗓️August 31 - September 5, 2025

Don't miss the 'Meet the Editor' session on 2 September
🕧18:00 – 19:30 CEST
📍Stand F32

Event details: www.ntnu.edu/europacat2025
August 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thank you to all our outstanding reviewers in Biomaterials Science @biomatersci.rsc.org !
We have now published our 'Outstanding Reviewers for Biomaterials Science in 2024' Editorial!

You can read the Editorial here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Thank you to all of our reviewers for helping to preserve quality and integrity in the Biomaterials Science literature.

🧪 #Biomaterials
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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New publication alert! In collaboration with University of Jena we refined the design of our flow dialysis devices for monomer removal. Get rid of leftover monomer from your polymer solutions quick and easy!
#3Dprinting designs freely available!

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#ozchem #gowiththeflow
3D-printed microfluidic dialysis apparatus for efficient polymer purification
The study focuses on the optimization of a polymer purification system based on dialysis. The aim of the study is to optimize the purification efficiency by maintaining a homogenously mixed polymer so...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Many congratulations Sujit Datta @softmatter.rsc.org !
Congratulations to Sujit Datta who officially received the Soft Matter Lectureship 2024 award before giving his talk on living gels formed by bacteria growing in complex fluids!

Find out more about our winner and the Lectureship award: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n

#ChemSky #🧪
August 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Very much looking forward to this seminar on active matter by Kathleen and Sujit! Please register below to join us! @softmatter.rsc.org
Join us next Tuesday, August 5 for our next Desktop Seminar! This webinar on Active Matter will feature Kathleen Stebe (UPenn) and Sujit Datta (Caltech).

Learn more and register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Join us in London, UK, from 10-12 September 2025 for our Faraday Discussion, Frontiers in physical chemistry for lignin valorisation! 📢 #chemsky

📅 Register by 18th August 2025

Find out more about this discussion, and what makes Faraday Discussions special, below:

www.rsc.org/events/detai...
July 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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We were delighted to sponsor the plenary talk given by AB Member Emanuela Del Gado at #StatPhys29 in Florence. AE Emanuela Zaccarelli also attended and introduced the journal & our exciting 20th anniversary collection!

Read the collection here: rsc.li/soft-matter-20
Free to access until 31/12/25!
July 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Many congratulations to @msde.rsc.org Editor-in-Chief Claire Adjiman for receiving a prestigious Research Excellence Award at the World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE) in Beijing this week! #chemsky #award
July 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Massive congratulations to Javier Pérez-Ramírez (Chair, Green Chemistry), the experienced chemist winner of the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗨𝗣𝗔𝗖-𝗭𝗵𝗲𝗷𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗛𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 🏆

#GreenChemistry #chemsky #IUPAC2025

@rsc.org @iupac.org
July 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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International recognition awarded to leading UCC organic chemist 👏

Congratulations to Professor Anita Maguire, a synthetic organic chemist @ucc.ie, and the recipient of the prestigious @rsc.org 2025 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry. #RSCPrizes
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Many congratulations to Professor @donnablack.bsky.social!
Congrats to Prof. @donnablack.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication from @rsc.org—awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, homochirality, and excellence in communication. More: ow.ly/iFhM50Wgn0z
July 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Hi #Chemsky!

Join us in London for the 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 ❇️

📅Poster abstract deadline: 14 July 2025
🔗 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

@rsc.org #FD_Alloys
June 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Changing with the times: our evolving approach to open access

Shaping our #OpenAccess approach amid a complex, evolving open research landscape, while supporting authors in ways that suit them best in a local context.

Find out more rsc.li/evolving-OA-...
June 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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From our collection Polymers for Gene Delivery read the article "Recent developments of polymeric delivery systems in gene therapeutics" by Yijia Li et al. ⬇️

doi.org/10.1039/D4PY...

Read the whole collection here ⬇️

rsc.li/gene_delivery
Recent developments of polymeric delivery systems in gene therapeutics
Gene therapy has achieved remarkable results in treating diseases by transmitting exogenous functional genes to target cells, inducing gene silencing, gene expression, and gene editing. However, nucle...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Reminder that the poster abstract deadline for ISF2025, the Int'l #Solar#Fuels conference, is 23 June. ISF is hosted by @rsc.org in Newcastle, UK, 1-5 September and we have a full programme including world-leading speakers, ECR programme, specialist talks, poster sessions and much more! #ChemSky
Ewan McQueen from the University of Strathclyde invites abstract submissions for the International Solar Fuels Conference 2025. Open to all career stages. Deadline for submissions: 23 June rsc.li/isf2025rschemS#ChemSky
June 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
All these great articles are free to read until the end of the year! Do check them out!
In case you missed it, check out our special 15th Anniversary collection!

pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
May 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Two weeks to go to nominate an early career colleague for the 2025 Soft Matter lectureship! 📣🏆
📢Don't miss your opportunity to nominate an early career scientist for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢

This award is given to an early-stage career scientist who has made significant contributions to the soft matter field

Learn more about the nomination process 👉 www.rsc.org/journals-boo...
April 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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We are excited to announce this year’s Chemical Science symposium, on the topic of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics!

Alongside celebrating 15 years of the journal, the winner of our first Lectureship will be presenting their research!

Find out more: rsc.li/chemscisymp2025

#ChemSky 🧪
April 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Looking forward to attending this event in Paris in June. Who else is planning to attend? @msde.rsc.org @softmatter.rsc.org @polymerchem.rsc.org #chemsky
Abstract submission for the Molecular Systems Engineering Workshop in Paris is now open!

Submit by 23rd April!

With invited talks from MSDE and Soft Matter Editor-in-chiefs Claire Adjiman and @aljcrosby.bsky.social

For more information visit 👉 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

🧪 #chemsky
April 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Just over one week left to register for the @rsc.org Faraday Discussion on #Supramolecular #Gels. Join speakers including Darrin Pochan and Thorri Gunlaugsson and discuss the very latest research! @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org @softmatter.rsc.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM