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Tomás Nicolás-García

@tomasnicolas

Scientist at University of Manchester. Exploring how tension and force activate polymers and molecular devices. #NanocarRaceII champion. Trust me, I am a chemist. #ChemSky

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A molecule with half-Möbius topology Stereoisomers of C13Cl2 exhibiting helical orbitals around a ring of carbon atoms were synthesized by atom manipulation on NaCl surfaces. We resolved the enantiomeric geometries of the singlet states ...

We did some pretty twisted stuff and Science liked it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

05.03.2026 19:53 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹

01.03.2026 14:35 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years.

if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.

10.02.2026 09:54 👍 63 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 4

Is #AI turning grant evaluation into a lottery? 🎲

The 2025 generative AI improvement coincides with ~20% of proposals scoring >95% in EU #MSCA call.

We’ve reached "excellence saturation."

Time to rethink funding?

👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

w/ @birder158.bsky.social
#MetaScience #AcademicSky

20.02.2026 21:59 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Queda dicho en esta red social, para la posteridad 😆.

03.02.2026 11:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats @emiliomperezlab.bsky.social!

03.02.2026 09:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Force-Generated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalyst Controlling the life cycle of polymer materials, for example, by extending their useful lifetime and by accelerating their recycling, is crucial to ensure a better future. Such properties can be intro...

In our first paper of 2026, @aliceieong.bsky.social puts NHC organocatalyst in action with mechanical force in ACS Catalysis!

🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.

#chemsky @pubs.acs.org

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

14.01.2026 19:10 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

10.01.2026 09:15 👍 40314 🔁 9969 💬 1399 📌 726

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

26.12.2025 18:32 👍 1083 🔁 192 💬 33 📌 8

Enhorabuena, @puigcerverjulio.bsky.social!!!Un reconocimiento muy merecido a una etapa predoctoral brillante. Tus directores de Tesis y compañeros de @socumu_lab qosumu.wixsite.com/socumu-lab estamos muy orgullosos de tu trabajo, dedicación y talento.
bsky.app/profile/rseq...

12.12.2025 18:21 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Mechanoluminescence goes crystal-free Bending, twisting and contact separation cause pure amorphous solids made from heteroleptic copper(I) complexes to emit light

Team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan show that mechanoluminescence can occur in pure amorphous photoluminescent solids.

06.12.2025 09:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry - IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry The search for the 2026 Top Ten will started in January 2026 and with a submission deadline of 30 April 2026   The 2025 finalists are (in alphabetical order): Additive Manufacturing […]

2025 Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry announced by @iupac.org to showcase the value of #chemistry and informs the public about its potential to foster the well-being of Society and the sustainability of our planet. See the 2025 finalists at iupac.org/what-we-do/t...

26.11.2025 11:17 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

23.11.2025 19:30 👍 40209 🔁 11729 💬 974 📌 678
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Las legiones romanas, la infantería púnica, los ejércitos godos, las tropas musulmanas, las huestes cristianas, los ejércitos imperiales, los tercios, los austracistas, los borbónicos, las tropas de Napoleón... no iban por Zaragoza y Madrid para moverse por el litoral mediterráneo.

Ratio militaris

23.11.2025 15:33 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0

Situación en Twitter:

Habían sacado una pestañita en cada perfil con el origen de la cuenta (país)

Han tenido que retirar hoy la pestañita pq la gente ha descubierto que mogollón de cuentas pro republicanas, supremacistas etc tienen origen en India y otros países inesperados.

22.11.2025 21:20 👍 1498 🔁 756 💬 52 📌 63
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Template‐Controlled Mechanochemical Dissociation of a Rotaxane The presence or absence of the Pd template used in rotaxane formation selectively leads to two different mechanochemical dissociation pathways. The Pd maintains a smaller cavity size that favors diss....

Look
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?

Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

20.11.2025 13:27 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
This graphic describes the smelly chemicals in skunk spray and how to get rid of the stink. In the first column, the graphic describes the thiol compounds responsible for skunk spray’s smell. The second column explains why the smell persists because of a chemical reaction between some skunk spray compounds and water. The third column outlines chemistry-based methods for eliminating the stinky skunk compounds.

This graphic describes the smelly chemicals in skunk spray and how to get rid of the stink. In the first column, the graphic describes the thiol compounds responsible for skunk spray’s smell. The second column explains why the smell persists because of a chemical reaction between some skunk spray compounds and water. The third column outlines chemistry-based methods for eliminating the stinky skunk compounds.

The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem.com explores the smelly chemicals in skunk spray and how to get rid of the stink. cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#chemsky 🧪

14.11.2025 20:15 👍 55 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2
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Así queda el horario de salida y puesta de sol si se acaba con el cambio de hora, municipio a municipio Se ha convertido en el gran debate, pero a menudo carecemos de información sobre los efectos prácticos de poner fin al cambio de hora. Introduce el nombre de tu localidad en nuestro buscador para sali...

‼️ BUSCADOR | Así queda el horario de salida y puesta de sol si se acaba con el cambio de hora, municipio a municipio www.eldiario.es/1_c1d905?utm...

25.10.2025 07:21 👍 48 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 3
Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.

Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2...

#ChemSky 🧪

08.10.2025 20:59 👍 115 🔁 51 💬 0 📌 6
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2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

08.10.2025 12:05 👍 45 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Image showing all of the Compound Interest Nobel Prize in Chemistry infographics from 2015 to 2024.

Image showing all of the Compound Interest Nobel Prize in Chemistry infographics from 2015 to 2024.

This morning, the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry will be announced!

Here are my brief infographic explainers of the past ten years of chemistry Nobel Prizes: www.compoundchem.com/category/nob...

#ChemSky 🧪

08.10.2025 07:03 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

go.nature.com/4gVswyS

07.10.2025 10:51 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

go.nature.com/48QDdAJ

06.10.2025 15:56 👍 130 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 2
a graphic depicting Alan Turing

a graphic depicting Alan Turing

Celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test 🧠

“Can machines think?”

In 1950, at @manchester.ac.uk, Alan Turing posed the question that defined a field.

His paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence introduced the Turing Test - one of the first big steps in AI.

01.10.2025 11:38 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Benzene at 200 Celebrating the molecule that changed the world

Benzene at 200
✍️ Nazario Martín

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benz...

26.06.2025 09:16 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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A 3D periodic table model by Enrique Barrajón (aka Boolchemist) has been submitted to LEGO 🧪🧱. If it reaches 10K votes, LEGO will consider commercialisation. Support and share to bring it to classrooms! 👉 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

15.09.2025 16:17 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Our recent papers are now published back to back in issue 37 of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social supported by a front cover designed by @drawimpacts.bsky.social

#chemsky #openaccess

Read the papers here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

10.09.2025 09:36 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network A group of companies has flooded 380 journals with hundreds of suspect papers since 2017.

An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills

go.nature.com/3VxA1SD

05.09.2025 09:09 👍 53 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 8
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Can I flip it? Yes you can!

Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force!

An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social !

Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485

#chemsky

27.08.2025 10:08 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The first all-carbon ring that’s stable at room temperature
Researchers thread cyclo[48]carbon into a supramolecular assembly, rendering it stable enough to characterize

The first all-carbon ring that’s stable at room temperature Researchers thread cyclo[48]carbon into a supramolecular assembly, rendering it stable enough to characterize

For the first time, researchers have created an all-carbon molecular ring that is stable in solution at room temperature, with a bit of supramolecular support. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪

15.08.2025 16:35 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3