D Bradshaw
@mofsoton.bsky.social
MOF tribute act | Associate Professor | Married, father of two daughters | he/him
14th Nov is the 2nd anniversary of breaking my elbow in a bike accident. I finished my final w/shop with my Chem Eng students at 4 pm, and they clapped me as I left. Less than an hr later I was sitting in a puddle in the dark with an elbow the size of a jacket potato, confirmed broken the next day 😵💫
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
14th Nov is the 2nd anniversary of breaking my elbow in a bike accident. I finished my final w/shop with my Chem Eng students at 4 pm, and they clapped me as I left. Less than an hr later I was sitting in a puddle in the dark with an elbow the size of a jacket potato, confirmed broken the next day 😵💫
My PhD supervisor, the late Prof David E Fenton; a truly wonderful and generous human being.
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My PhD supervisor, the late Prof David E Fenton; a truly wonderful and generous human being.
Short autumnal bike ride 🚲🍂😎
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Short autumnal bike ride 🚲🍂😎
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This paper on "Inflatable porous organic crystals", by Len Barbour & his collaborators, looks rather excellent.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
Inflatable porous organic crystals - Nature Materials
Reversible and unidirectional expansion of an acicular porous molecular crystal is observed with gas uptake. Using in situ structural and photomicrographic techniques, a molecular-level insight is obt...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This paper on "Inflatable porous organic crystals", by Len Barbour & his collaborators, looks rather excellent.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
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"We have hoarded an amazing assemblage of materials, molecules, mixtures, complexes, and elements that now pose a number of significant challenges we must recognize and manage," writes Peter Licence. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"We have hoarded an amazing assemblage of materials, molecules, mixtures, complexes, and elements that now pose a number of significant challenges we must recognize and manage," writes Peter Licence. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
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Making hexanitrogen contributes to fundamental scientific knowledge and could offer opportunities for energy storage in the future, say N₆’s creators. cen.acs.org/materials/in... #chemsky 🧪
A new nitrogen allotrope has been created at last
Chemists string 6 nitrogen atoms together to make hexanitrogen
cen.acs.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Making hexanitrogen contributes to fundamental scientific knowledge and could offer opportunities for energy storage in the future, say N₆’s creators. cen.acs.org/materials/in... #chemsky 🧪
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L2M3OF: A large language multimodal model for metal-organic frameworks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20976
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
L2M3OF: A large language multimodal model for metal-organic frameworks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20976
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework"
🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.
🔗👇
🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.
🔗👇
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework"
🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.
🔗👇
🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.
🔗👇
Found these beautiful cubic salt crystals in some old play doh 😎
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Found these beautiful cubic salt crystals in some old play doh 😎
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🧬DNA Origami for Cancer Cell Imaging + My Halloween-ish Artistic Touch 🎃
These structures, called #DNAorigami nanocomplexes can enter #cancer cells more easily than normal cells. Scientists used this trick to send these origami-molecules into the cancer cells to differentiate them more precisely.
These structures, called #DNAorigami nanocomplexes can enter #cancer cells more easily than normal cells. Scientists used this trick to send these origami-molecules into the cancer cells to differentiate them more precisely.
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🧬DNA Origami for Cancer Cell Imaging + My Halloween-ish Artistic Touch 🎃
These structures, called #DNAorigami nanocomplexes can enter #cancer cells more easily than normal cells. Scientists used this trick to send these origami-molecules into the cancer cells to differentiate them more precisely.
These structures, called #DNAorigami nanocomplexes can enter #cancer cells more easily than normal cells. Scientists used this trick to send these origami-molecules into the cancer cells to differentiate them more precisely.
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Is anyone here good at separating amino acids from one another (on gram scale). E.g., using resins? For example separating methionine from isoleucine. I’m a bit new at it. #chemsky 🧪
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Is anyone here good at separating amino acids from one another (on gram scale). E.g., using resins? For example separating methionine from isoleucine. I’m a bit new at it. #chemsky 🧪
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Come and join us at Birmingham making cages for catalysis. We have a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home fees only) to start in 2026. Very happy to discuss this project, which can be tailored to suit a candidate's interests. Please get in touch if you are interested #chemsky
🧠 Come to Birmingham! We have a 3.5-year PhD studentship available in my group to start in September 2026 working on the synthesis of organic macrocycles and cages with a focus on applications in catalysis. Happy to discuss informally via email. UK home fees only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Developing novel molecular hosts for catalysis in confined spaces at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Developing novel molecular hosts for catalysis in confined spaces at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Come and join us at Birmingham making cages for catalysis. We have a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home fees only) to start in 2026. Very happy to discuss this project, which can be tailored to suit a candidate's interests. Please get in touch if you are interested #chemsky
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Hemoglobin-loaded ZIF-8 nanoparticles functionalized with human serum albumin as stealth, stable, and biocompatible oxygen carriers http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/NA/D5NA00677E
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hemoglobin-loaded ZIF-8 nanoparticles functionalized with human serum albumin as stealth, stable, and biocompatible oxygen carriers http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/NA/D5NA00677E
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Promethean’s process uses a proprietary solvothermal flow reactor, which ‘improves reaction kinetics, leading to significantly shorter reaction times’ than batch processes, and decreases costs significantly at higher production volumes.
UK firm reaches tonne scale MOF manufacturing
Promethean Particles's continuous flow process can produce carbon-capturing material at 100kg/hr
www.chemistryworld.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Promethean’s process uses a proprietary solvothermal flow reactor, which ‘improves reaction kinetics, leading to significantly shorter reaction times’ than batch processes, and decreases costs significantly at higher production volumes.
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Microfluidic and Microwave Approaches for the Rapid Synthesis of Cu-CPO-27 Metal-Organic Framework https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387181125004160
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Microfluidic and Microwave Approaches for the Rapid Synthesis of Cu-CPO-27 Metal-Organic Framework https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387181125004160
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New research at UNB could hold the key to better aluminum recycling -- and to creating trillions of litres of sustainable, green hydrogen fuel every year.
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
From refinery waste to useful materials and green fuel: New research could revolutionize the global aluminum industry
New research by UNB chemistry professor Dr. Barry Blight could revolutionize how we deal with aluminum refining waste, aluminum recycling and even fuelling our world—reducing how much material ends up...
blogs.unb.ca
October 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New research at UNB could hold the key to better aluminum recycling -- and to creating trillions of litres of sustainable, green hydrogen fuel every year.
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
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Property-guided inverse design of metal-organic frameworks using quantum natural language processing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-025-01806-z
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Property-guided inverse design of metal-organic frameworks using quantum natural language processing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-025-01806-z
Paper accepted, coming to an excellent Chem(istry) journal soon 😉. This work has been a journey and I can't tell you the relief. I'll tell you about it once it's published #chemsky
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Paper accepted, coming to an excellent Chem(istry) journal soon 😉. This work has been a journey and I can't tell you the relief. I'll tell you about it once it's published #chemsky
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🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Check 18 of 26: citations older than a mummy’s wrap.
Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk highlights outdated references, ensuring research stays fresh, relevant and current.
Stale citations belong in history, not in peer review.
#ResearchIntegrity #Halloween
Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk highlights outdated references, ensuring research stays fresh, relevant and current.
Stale citations belong in history, not in peer review.
#ResearchIntegrity #Halloween
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
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Mason Wakley on the 200 year wait for a special synthesis.
Calcium bicarbonate crystals synthesised for first time
Scientists fill 'historical gap in textbooks' to resolve the crystal structure of this simple yet elusive mineral
www.chemistryworld.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Mason Wakley on the 200 year wait for a special synthesis.
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Now online:
Article by Shengqian Ma, Cheng-Yong Su & co-workers
Adaptive metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity for durable gas separation
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
Article by Shengqian Ma, Cheng-Yong Su & co-workers
Adaptive metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity for durable gas separation
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
Adaptive metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity for durable gas separation - Nature Synthesis
A radical-mediated dynamic remedial strategy based on bio-inspired disulfide metathesis has been developed to construct metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity. The disulfide exchange-bas...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Now online:
Article by Shengqian Ma, Cheng-Yong Su & co-workers
Adaptive metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity for durable gas separation
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
Article by Shengqian Ma, Cheng-Yong Su & co-workers
Adaptive metal–organic frameworks with crystalline dynamicity for durable gas separation
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
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FAIR-MOFs:A Comprehensive Database for Accelerating the Discovery and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-zjjdc?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
FAIR-MOFs:A Comprehensive Database for Accelerating the Discovery and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-zjjdc?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
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Check out "Defining, designing and determining the structure of supramolecular frameworks" by @nickwhite.bsky.social and C. Michael McGuirk
Included in our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection!
Read the full Tutorial review here 👇
Included in our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection!
Read the full Tutorial review here 👇
Defining, designing and determining the structure of supramolecular frameworks
Supramolecular frameworks, ordered porous networks assembled by noncovalent interactions, are a broad class of functional materials with emergent combinations of properties arising from the relatively weak interactions used to assemble them. However, the coherent advancement of the field is challenged by the abunda
pubs.rsc.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Check out "Defining, designing and determining the structure of supramolecular frameworks" by @nickwhite.bsky.social and C. Michael McGuirk
Included in our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection!
Read the full Tutorial review here 👇
Included in our 2025 Pioneering Investigators collection!
Read the full Tutorial review here 👇