Senior editor @nature handling materials/chemistry. Science with a smattering of cats, pianos, life and sarcasm. Views own, ofc.
She/her London, UK (mostly)
Joined March 2014
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In a throwback to the before times, I’ll be back at Heathrow in under 48 hours for #MC16. I’m sure the sign can be recycled again next week…
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Also available at the convention centre: a mysterious door labelled ‘UK experience centre’. Suggestions on a postcard for what might be behind it?
Enjoying Singapore science - and architecture - very much. As my sweaty face will attest, the 10 billion % humidity less so.
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Burning it may not seem like an immediate solution to plastic waste, but @LiangbingHu and co present an idea to control pyrolysis of plastic waste to avoid coke, reduce byproducts and generate monomers for repolymerisation.
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And Ben and I chatted about it on the Nature podcast too, in case audio is your vibe - 🎧: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Also in the issue this week (previously online), @kojima_takahiko and co report a catalyst with hydrophobic pockets that take up methane from water and repel methanol for transforming methane -> methanol.
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Chemistry in @nature this week...
@TEAS_Actinides and co report POMs that selectively bind americium(VI) over lanthanides, a process that might find use in recycling spent nuclear fuel.
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And May Nyman & Gauthier Deblonde have written a nice News & Views piece on the paper too!
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Justifying all excessive screen time and plates of beige food with this from now on.
If you receive poor parenting yourself, are you destined to be a poor parent? Quite the opposite, at least if you are a burying beetle newscientist.com/article/236…
Right, it's Thursday, the kiddies are *finally* asleep [shakes fist at clock change], which means it's my sort-of-weekly, sort-of-sporadic time to tweet the chemistry/materials content in @Nature. In the print issue, @ChemCambridge and the Cav report:
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It's Thursday, which means it's new-print-issue-of-@nature day. The highlight of my week.
We have (previously pub online), from Wester and co, the slowest rate constant ever measured for an ion-molecule reaction in the gas phase: 1 out of 10^11 collisions!
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Also, a curious molecule where the only stereocentre is at oxygen (you might have seen the preprint on @ChemRxiv) from @MDSgroup_Oxford
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This week, Ting Xu and co have published a paper in Nature that shows random polymers can mimic the function of proteins, despite being designed not on a residue-by-residue level, but on the basis of a global balance of hydrophobicity to hydrophilicity.
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Apologies for not tagging @polymer_ucb in the post!
Here's the accompanying Research Briefing, too: an explainer from the authors, complete with quotable quote from yours truly and domain expert @daniellejmai
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Chemistry/materials in @nature this week:
1) these ladderphanes exhibit high thermal conductivity even at temperatures up to 200 degC, making them potentially useful in high-temperature energy storage applications.
Nature research paper: Ladderphane copolymers for high-temperature capacitive energy storage go.nature.com/3L8vimL
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2) Previously online, now in print, from @SongLinLab: The outcome of an electrochemical reaction of pyridines with CO2 depends on the type of reactor used. Yes, folks, reactor, not reagents or conditions! Electro-org chem continues to surprise.
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This week’s issue of Nature is packed full of JWST papers! Just enough pages left, though, for a paper on soft solvents for Li-ion batteries under extreme conditions: high voltages, rapid charging and at high/low T, from Borodin, Wang and co.
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This week, highlights in materials sci/chemistry in @nature:
Squishing together (and that's a technical term, promise) polymer and metal nanostructures in stretchable devices. A collab between Liu (Shenzen), @ChenXD_NTU_Sg and @zhenanbao groups.
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And from @lining_yao and colleagues, inspired by ‘drilling’ Erodium seeds, a wood-based seed-carrier gives seeds a better chance of implanting into the soil where the carrier lands than just scattering the seeds manually. It's on the cover too!
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A Valentine's treat from @JacobsenLab, if anion-binding and TM catalysis is your jam.
Nature research paper: Enantioselective Transition-Metal Catalysis via an Anion-Binding Approach go.nature.com/3xn0KFK
If you were a chemist, and you were to open up your preferred delivery mode of @nature this week, you'd find...:
1) Super fancy in operando characterisation of structural dynamics of catalysts during CO2 reduction!
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2) Looking to split water, cheaply? Try silicon!
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3) And finally, but not least-ly, a combination of electrochemical and photochemical catalysis means one can oxygenate 6 whole C-H bonds, all at once. That's 12 electrons! 12!
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*tap tap tap* is this thing still on?
For all you chemists and material science folks, in this today's issue of @nature we have:
1) A new type of carbon from carbon fullerenes: long-range ordered porous carbon in a fcc lattice. Made on gram scale!
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2) A new confined growth technique for wafer-scale synthesis of stacked monolayers of TMDCs (MoS2/WSe2 heterostructures). nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Enjoy!
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