Tom Runčevski

And the weekend adds 2 days up!

Look at you two!!!!!! 🥹

Surely the Society has a plan to petition for a redress of American chemistry academic grievances to our government. Let's hear that plan, and fast.

Yeah… the rebound did not even things up, and it went in the opposite direction this year.

Looks a bit grim… I hope we won’t see something like the craziness going on overseas (Reading, Twente, etc)

If I’m not wrong, looks like there are ~10% less positions than the average (excluding 2021). Considering *everything* I would expect less faculty lines in the next cycle. Which means the huge gap caused by COVID has not been filled, and looks like it’s widening…

Definitely the guest house. They also serve breakfast! (No lunch or dinner on site, actually no good food in miles radius 😂)

Thanks to Hao Yan for excellent high-pressure talk at SMU yesterday! Sometimes is good to be under pressure :)

When porous materials folks get together.. @ronsmaldone.bsky.social @runcevski.bsky.social @chemchen.bsky.social

Another airplane accident… We should genuinely bring back clapping when the plane lands.

SMU Achieves Carnegie R1 Classification, Ranking Among Top U.S. Research Universities

Congratulations to everyone at SMU!

Y’all! Be on the lookout for great science coming soon from @joktawiec.bsky.social lab!!!

Listen up local businesses! The Feigin Lab CAN be bought! Do you want your logo on our lab coats? $500! Naming rights to a TC hood? $2000! Endow my chair! Going cheap at $5000!

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Guys… it’s only January #everything

Martin Jansen?

It doesn’t need to be with C5_1! Preferably yes, but everything helps. We are writing a manuscript where we achieved fivefold symmetry engineering, and I’m doing my due diligence for the intro. Fivefold symmetry is so rare

Twitter was great for this, let’s give bluesky a try.

#chemsky community, any examples of fivefold helices either natural or synthetic? Any in the solid?

Awesome time! Ron traveled mountains and rivers to come and give a talk at SMU (UTD is in Richardson)!

And in case if you wanna an overview of the field pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Peritectic phase transition of benzene and acetonitrile into a cocrystal relevant to Titan, Saturn's moon Benzene and acetonitrile are two of the most commonly used solvents found in almost every chemical laboratory. Titan is one other place in the solar system that has large amounts of these compounds. O...

And the third one pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the Acetonitrile:Acetylene (1:2) Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn’s Moon Saturn’s moon Titan features a surface composed of various organic solids with pronounced compositional and structural diversity. On top of the icy core, the surface experiences a temperature of ≈93 K...

Here is the other one pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the Acetylene: Ammonia (1:1) Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn’s Moon The surface of Titan, Saturn’s icy moon, is believed to be composed of various molecular minerals with a great diversity in structure and composition. Under the surface conditions, 93 K and 1.45 atm, ...

I’m looking forward NASC 2024 in NOLA! If you are around and you wanna hear about how supramolecular chemistry can lead to soft, squishy patches on Titan’s surface come along! Here is one of the solids we gonna talk about pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Wonderful seminar by @gadzikwa.bsky.social and dinner celebration with @alexlippert.bsky.social @runcevskilab

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the Acetonitrile:Acetylene (1:2) Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn’s Moon Saturn’s moon Titan features a surface composed of various organic solids with pronounced compositional and structural diversity. On top of the icy core, the surface experiences a temperature of ≈93 K and pressure of ≈1.45 atm. Under these conditions, most small organic molecules exist as solids and form Titanean minerals. Acetonitrile and acetylene are two of these molecules, which can form single-component molecular solids and also a 1:2 binary cocrystal. Here, we present a combined neutron vibrational spectroscopic study, neutron powder diffraction study, and theoretical modeling of the cocrystal and corresponding single-phase solids. This combined study resulted in insightful spectra–structure–property correlations for the cocrystal and the molecular solids. Furthermore, we observed quenching of the high-temperature form of acetonitrile in the presence of the cocrystal, which supports the possibility of the existence of metastable solids as minerals on Titan. The results presented in this study further the knowledge of the putative structure and composition of the surface of Titan and, at the same time, contribute to a better understanding of the fundamental thermodynamic properties of two of the smallest organic molecules on Earth and in the Universe.

Let’s give this platform a try!

As a first post, here is our latest paper on neutrons and Saturn’s icy moon Titan, published as part of Mike Ward’s special issue in CGD

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...