Tim Schmidt
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Just a boy who loves shooting molecules with lasers
There is no try in chemistry.
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I’ve been elected to the academy! Congrats to the other newly minted FAAs.
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Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion - Nature Photonics
An absolute photon upconversion efficiency of 8.2% is demonstrated using a liquid triplet fusion medium that behaves as solid on excitonic timescales. The findings may drive higher efficiencies in nan...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-026-01915-1?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=partner&utm_content=null&utm_term=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_LYLT_GL_PJNL_06PJ3_ARTPROMTK
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Wonderful to host Mark Wilson from U. Toronto. Crossed the “big pond” today hi.
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The Wang.
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When you scroll the socials for some downtime and …
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Me, describing my career at my retirement party…
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Paul J. Dauenhauer
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<salute>
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Does this get me banned?
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Florida's Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water
In a recent social media post, Joseph Ladapo endorsed the use of structured water, which doesn't actually seem to exist.
https://gizmodo.com/floridas-surgeon-general-is-now-peddling-fake-water-2000705629
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Josh Butler
5 months ago
This is bloody entertaining cricket but ripping through these Test matches so quickly is really ruining one of the most reliably comforting parts of summer (knowing you can fall asleep on the couch, full of ham and carbs, then wake up without having missed too much)
#Ashes
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My IIT Bombay visitor is consorting with the enemy
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At UNSW, we’ve been looking into sunscreens.
theconversation.com/mineral-vs-c...
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+ Anna Wang. Also thanks to Thilini Ishwara.
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Mineral vs chemical sunscreens? Science shows the difference is smaller than you think
New analysis shows one in three ‘mineral-only’ sunscreens contain UV-absorbing chemicals.
https://theconversation.com/mineral-vs-chemical-sunscreens-science-shows-the-difference-is-smaller-than-you-think-270787
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I have a great sense of pride when I walk past this plaque.
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Hopefully we can make this work!
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Bright futures: UNSW scientists advance solar efficiency
UNSW researchers are working towards a new generation of solar technology that could make sunlight work smarter – by turning one particle of light into two packets of energy.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/10/bright-futures-unw-scientists-advance-solar-efficiency
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I still have to draw my own diagrams
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It’s a great story. Ted Irving failed his PhD at Cambridge but the Australian National University gave him a job anyway and he ended up with a stellar career. Cambridge later gave him a DSc.
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Student-led careers evening here at
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#chemnobel
#chemsky
#ozchem
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Gav Armstrong
8 months ago
If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.
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Jon Beves
8 months ago
Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi.
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Great conference JD!
@jd1278.bsky.social
I hope to be back in Goa some time.
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I hope not
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AOSC2025 kicks off with Evan Bieske.
#goa
#aosc2025
8 months ago
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Wow the Xitter site is a dumpster fire right now. More than usual.
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9 months ago
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and collaborators Singlet Fission Provides a Scalable Pathway to High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics | ACS Energy Letters
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We have a viewpoint…
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Singlet Fission Provides a Scalable Pathway to High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics
CONTENT TYPES
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01944?ref=article_openPDF
9 months ago
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Cheer cheer the red and the white!
#aflw
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Latest work from
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Tayebjee and collaborators Singlet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond Tetracene | ACS Energy Letters
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Singlet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond Tetracene
Singlet fission photovoltaics enable the extraction of two electron–hole pairs from each higher-energy photon while leveraging a mature technology such as crystalline silicon (c-Si) as the underlying cell. Significant steps have been made in the development of singlet fission silicon photovoltaics, but all examples reported to date use tetracene as the singlet fission material. Tetracene is photochemically unstable and therefore unsuitable for commercial applications. Here we demonstrate singlet fission-derived triplet exciton transfer to c-Si from photochemically stable dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione (DPND) derivatives, with a thin layer of tin oxide as the passivation layer. An overlayer of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) was found to improve interface passivation further. These observations demonstrate that singlet fission photovoltaic devices can be made using stable and commercially viable materials.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01930
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Our team at UNSW Science and Engineering is making progress with singlet fission solar cells.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Singlet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond Tetracene
Singlet fission photovoltaics enable the extraction of two electron–hole pairs from each higher-energy photon while leveraging a mature technology such as crystalline silicon (c-Si) as the underlying ...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01930
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Well he came from South Africa, via NZ and now he’s off to Switzerland with a shiny
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PhD. Congratulations Damon
@dmdeclercq.bsky.social
and good luck! 🇿🇦 🇳🇿 🇦🇺 🇨🇭…?
#chemsky
#ozchem
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Name a more iconic brown tower made mostly from metal in the late 19th century.
11 months ago
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Every 12-18 months. These must be pre-tenure US academics
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11 months ago
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I bet they also have a an electronics workshop
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Lamb again sorry kids.
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Latest upconversion research from our labs:
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Solid-state sensitized liquid-chromophore triplet fusion upconversion
Photochemical upconversion has several potential applications in optoelectronics. However, there is yet to be demonstrated a rational approach to high efficiencies in nanoscale solid state devices. He...
https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/685259cdc1cb1ecda09d6927
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Great turn up to Jon Berengut’s Warji talk here at
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Superstar Jay Menham doing us proud in the UNSW Science one-minute thesis.
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Found a different phase of rain out west of Sydney
12 months ago
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My colleague appreciates that I ran a Gaussian calculation
about 1 year ago
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Enjoy your weekend, lefties.
about 1 year ago
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James McGrath. Was he sent to ruin the ABC election broadcast?
about 1 year ago
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When you order groceries online and they make a substitution. The horror.
about 1 year ago
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Brushing up on my Python skills
about 1 year ago
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Anyone for guava?
about 1 year ago
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Cool!
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Good morning from Auskick! Long shadows mean it’s too early.
about 1 year ago
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Nanoparticles of oxygen!
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New
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project paper. We use a tesselation of the 3Nd wave function to isolate the energies of bonding electrons. The C-C bond is just like H2!
#chemsky
#theochem
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Energetics of Covalent Bonding from Wave Function Tiles
The mechanism of covalent bonding has been debated for a century, with proponents variously championing kinetic or potential energy as the driver. While detailed calculations have revealed the bonding...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c02274
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Heard Island Government
about 1 year ago
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Unboxing new toys here at
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! Meet Roxanne’s replacements!
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