Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

New paper out: "Impact of Shared Facilities in Advancing Solid-State NMR Research" #NMRchat Thanks to @gnm_reddy for organizing! doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

A collaboration between the Huang and Karttunen labs at @westernu.ca "Stay Together or Split Up: Investigating Selective Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide and Acetylene in Anion-Pillared Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks," is now in Chemistry of Materials (@pubs.acs.org)! Link: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Stay Together or Split Up: Investigating Selective Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide and Acetylene in Anion-Pillared Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01816

To properly celebrate today's MOFs Nobel prize 🥇 🤗 🎉 (just published today), with colleagues from @westernu.ca Wanli Zhang, Vinicius Marti, Jeffrey Collins, Reza Moshrefi, Samantha Michelle Gateman, Victor V. Terskikh, and Yining Huang* www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #NMRchat 🧲

New NMR book @rsc.org December 18, 2024, New Developments in NMR, NMR of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks, Edited by Wei Wang; Shoushun Chen; Yining Huang @westernu.ca books.rsc.org/books/edited... #NMRbooks #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

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This is one of the more interesting works I've participated in. NMR holds a lot of promise for understanding structural features in covalent organic frameworks (COFs). Layer stacking, staggering, distances, and more!

#NMRchat De Novo Structure Determination of Covalent Organic Frameworks by NMR Crystallography http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c10516

De Novo Structure Determination of Covalent Organic Frameworks by NMR Crystallography http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c10516

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Please RT. My lab is looking to hire a postdoc to develop applications of solid-state NMR in catalysis. The project will involve significant work on fast MAS & DNP NMR methods. Apply here: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/... #NMRchat #chemsky

Professor Yining Huang @westernu.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social received the 2025 Gerhard Herzberg Award by the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy for distinguished achievements in solid-state NMR csass.org/index.html #NMRchat #NMR 🧲 📸 @amrit-venkatesh.bsky.social

Metal-organic frameworks can selectively adsorb and separate gases...but where are the gases adsorbed in the system, how do the adsorbed gases move, and what host-guest interactions are in play? Check out the new preprint from the @westernu.bsky.social Huang and Karttunen labs! #NMRchat

Pushing Limits of Ultra-wideline Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: NMR Signatures of 209Bi and 127I in Metal–Organic Frameworks at Ultra-high Magnetic Fields http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17499

"Benchmarking selective capture of trace CO2 from C2H2 using an amine-functionalized adsorbent" is online in @naturecomms.bsky.social , detailing a new adsorbent with excellent properties for large-scale industrial applications. There's also NMR, FT-IR, DFT, and more! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Local order, disorder, and everything in between: using 91Zr solid-state NMR spectroscopy to probe zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/CP/D4CP03704A

#NMRchat Local order, disorder, and everything in between: using 91Zr solid-state NMR spectroscopy to probe zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/CP/D4CP03704A

#NMRchat Local Order, Disorder, and Everything in Between: Using 91Zr Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to Probe Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/CP/D4CP03704A

Great collaboration using high fields (up to 35.2 T) for Zr-91 solid-state NMR spectroscopy of Zr-based MOFs! #NMRchat #chemsky

91Zr NMR can probe local structure and order in metal-organic frameworks: doi.org/10.1039/D4CP... . Just accepted in PCCP @roysocchem.bsky.social ! A team effort from the Huang group @westernu.bsky.social , @nationalmaglab.bsky.social , @amrit-venkatesh.bsky.social , and @aaronrossini.bsky.social .

Local Order, Disorder, and Everything in Between: Using 91Zr Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to Probe Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/CP/D4CP03704A

In case you missed this from "the other site" over the holidays... "Understanding Water Reaction Pathways to Control the Hydrolytic Reactivity of a Zn Metal-Organic Framework" is now open-access in @naturecomms.bsky.social . NMR, cryo-EM, XRD, and more! Check it out at doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I guess we're supposed to do an intro post here, so here goes: - I'm Bryan - Did academic stuff and got my PhD, did more academic stuff, went into industry for a few years, and now doing scientific editing - Love NMR applications - Absolutely ruthless editor (in a good way) - Like to run and bike

#NMRchat 35Cl NMR of Metal‐Organic Frameworks: What Can We Learn? https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmtd.202400078?af=R

35Cl NMR of Metal‐Organic Frameworks: What Can We Learn? https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmtd.202400078?af=R