Neil Withers
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Features Editor for Chemistry World, Twitter refugee. Tractor fan
It would be very difficult to separate hundreds and thousands (sugar strands) by colour - that's the thinking behind the image, by the way.
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Applications for the internship are open now!
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A search for "*chem*" in the Epstein files reveals: Lots of references (eg Whitesides' CV); a pool with algae needing treatment; typos for 'them'; messages to someone who was late because they had 'chem tutoring' (yikes)
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Presented without comment
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21 days ago
The 'Baghdad battery' was an unusual artefact discovered in Iraq in 1936. Now, a new reconstruction suggests it may have been more powerful than thought, equivalent to an AA battery.
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Was the âBaghdad batteryâ really two cells?
A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/was-the-baghdad-battery-really-two-cells/4022804.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Applications close on 12 January (that's next Monday) â don't miss the chance to further your sci-comm career by working with our team.
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Digital Content Assistant
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The unionisation of C&EN will confuse all their readers...
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Join us!
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My query made it! Have a read. It's been bothering me for years...
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Some photos of the boss and his Nobel Medal, taken immediately after the ceremony.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics
2 months ago
This is a great dive into anthocyanins, tannins, and the oxidation chemistry of port in
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The chemistry of port
In Portugalâs Douro valley, centuries-old winemaking traditions meet modern chemistry to create a sweet and intense fortified wine. BĂĄrbara Pinho talks to the experts about the compounds and reactions behind a festive favourite
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-chemistry-of-port/4022483.article
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Stuart Batten
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Richard Robson always had very small research groups and limited, sporadic funding. This has never been better illustrated than by the acknowledgement slides to the Nobel lectures of Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi (only 1 of 4 slides shown below). We punched above our weight!
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I noticed exactly this walking from Kings Cross to Nature Towers last night: a queue of buses, taxis, cars and vans (cos roadworks) - but so quiet. Used to be deafening on York Way.
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Don't have nightmares
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I heartily agree. Worth it for the part-finished raised carvings alone â incomplete art, frozen in time. But also: a four-odd thousand year old dress! In pretty good nick! Rameses III's girdle!!
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Glad to see AI has finally found its niche
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That's all folks!
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4 months ago
This is a very well-written piece on this year's MOF Nobel prize with a lot of personal accounts from the community
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Julia Robinson
4 months ago
Last week Susumu Kitagawa, Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson were awarded the
#Nobelprize
in
#chemistry
for their work developing metal-organic frameworks. Here I tell the story of how MOFs came to be - incl. an interview with Kitagawa himself!
www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
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How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize
From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/how-the-pioneers-of-metal-organic-frameworks-won-the-nobel-prize/4022318.article
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Here it is! The full
#LongRead
feature article on this year's
#ChemNobel
-
@robinson-julia.bsky.social
managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday!
www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
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How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize
From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/how-the-pioneers-of-metal-organic-frameworks-won-the-nobel-prize/4022318.article
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Jet Lee
4 months ago
A fun read while getting my
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fix
#chemsky
#MOFs
#NobelPrize
#chemistry
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âI worked on it little by little, with the help of a beerâ: Making MOFs out of paper
Chemistry World talks to Ryo Horikoshi about engaging students with chemistry concepts using his stunning paper models
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/i-worked-on-it-little-by-little-with-the-help-of-a-beer-making-mofs-out-of-paper/4021198.article
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Ooh, looking back at the Nobel nominations database, which now goes up to 1974, John Goodenough was first nominated *in 1974* - before he'd even made a battery, and 44 years before he won it....
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Stuart Batten
4 months ago
Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted
#NobelPrize
Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's).
#Chemsky
#ozchem
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Can't wait to see the write-up of the MOF/[porous] coordination polymer/whatever nomenclature debate on the BBC!!!
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I always say that although the Nobel gets criticised it is definitely good for one thing: getting some proper chemistry* in front of people's eyeballs, once a year. So it's great to see this real in-depth reporting from the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oh. *and biology
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I didn't realise Robson was from Yorkshire! Just 12 miles (as the crow files) from where Geoffrey Wilkinson was born...
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Jamie Gould
4 months ago
Another person who would surely have been in contention is Gérard Férey, who sadly passed away in 2017. His MIL-53 and MIL-101 structures continue to wonder and show new applications.
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Always good to remember that the T in BET adsorption is Edward Teller, 'father of the H bomb'
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In all seriousness, I've long been impressed by how MOFs bring together so many different bits of chemistry - a well deserved prize!
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Ah, but is it [organic, solid state, coordination, physical] chemistry?
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So what meeting has Kitagawa got to go to?? Hopefully champagne is involved!
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I predict a lot of happy
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MOFs in a box
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It's MOFs!
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What's in the box??
#ChemNobel
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Patrick Walter
4 months ago
Morning all. An exciting day in the chemistry calendar. The
#NobelPrize
in chemistry will be announced in a little over an hour. We're keeping track of all the developments as they happen at Chemistry World
#chemnobel
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The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens â live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-2025-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-as-it-happens-live/4022193.article
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The laureates' 'prize-earning' papers in Phys Rev Lett, Phys Rev B from 1985 + 1987 have 276, 342 and 518 citations [Scopus] - low for Nobel-winning work, maybe? [1/2]
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Electrons go wheeee
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It's a good day for Johns in California!
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Well that's perfectly clear. WTF??
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Well that's perfectly clear. WTF??
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In my very early days as a journal editor, somebody had a Word doc â several pages long â with the best comments from referee reports. It was pretty funny, but some of them probably belonged in this article
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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âLipstick on a pigâ: how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02922-y
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5 months ago
While alchemy is increasingly seen as a precursor to modern chemistry, 'witchcraft' â practised by lower-status women â is still ignored. But was the 'magic', from flying ointments to healing potions, grounded in real pharmacology?
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From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices
The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/from-flying-ointments-to-healing-herbs-the-forgotten-chemistry-behind-historical-witchcraft-practices/4022002.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Number four in Multidisciplinary Chemistry (Excluding review journals) Will Surprise You !1!
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Itâs amazing who you bump into on a sunny day in LondonâŠ
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6 months ago
Former NIH director Elias Zerhouni says that the Trump administration's plans to slash research spending will 'create havoc and destruction'.
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âItâs carnageâ: Former NIH director decries Trump administration efforts to slash research spending
Elias Zerhouni tells Chemistry World what's changed from when he was appointed by a Republican president to the current Trump administration
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/its-carnage-former-nih-director-decries-trump-administration-efforts-to-slash-research-spending/4021985.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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It's a Small World in The UK Establishment part 5745: this Biographical Memoir of John Davidson FRS, chemical engineer, vice-master of Trinity College etc etc, was checked for family details by inter alia his son-in-law the Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin
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John Frank Davidson. 7 February 1926â25 December 2019 | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
John Davidson was an engineer who made major contributions to chemical engineering science. His elegant and concise analytical models have underpinned the development of fluidised bed reactors used in...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2025.0004
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Richard Jones
7 months ago
Who/what to blame for current state of UK? Nigel Lawson, imo, not blamed enough for 3 policy doctrines which caused long-term damage: 1. Energy is just another commodity that can safely be left to the market 2. Financial services industry should be deregulated 3. The trade deficit doesn't matter
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Interesting to see how things have changed since 2017, which sources tell me is 8 (eight) years ago...
www.chemistryworld.com/features/mof...
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