Barry Blight
@barryblight.bsky.social
Professor at the University of New Brunswick 🇨🇦
Inorganic Chemist, Porous and Supramolecular Materials. Chasing True Sustainability. https://blightba.wixsite.com/blightresearchgroup
Interested in Life. Family. Chemistry. Go!
Inorganic Chemist, Porous and Supramolecular Materials. Chasing True Sustainability. https://blightba.wixsite.com/blightresearchgroup
Interested in Life. Family. Chemistry. Go!
Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!
We would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations!
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!
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We would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations!
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations!
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
A great Opportunity.
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in
#flowchemistry?
#crystallography?
#MOFs?
📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow
Based in the School of Chemistr...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A great Opportunity.
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The new open source syringe pump control boards arrived. Exciting!
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The new open source syringe pump control boards arrived. Exciting!
we were in the Saturday evening news...While I struggled to string words together (haha) Mason carried the team.
globalnews.ca/video/115182...
globalnews.ca/video/115182...
UNB research turns aluminum waste into clean energy | Watch News Videos Online
Watch UNB research turns aluminum waste into clean energy Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
we were in the Saturday evening news...While I struggled to string words together (haha) Mason carried the team.
globalnews.ca/video/115182...
globalnews.ca/video/115182...
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
In the wake of Jim Watson's death, it's worth remembering that Rosalind Franklin was an equal player, and left out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In the wake of Jim Watson's death, it's worth remembering that Rosalind Franklin was an equal player, and left out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Y'all know I love Fredericton but the outpouring of support for Sara Holyoke takes it to another level. Over $100k raised in less than 24 hours. Not sure there's many people in this town that could get that kind of love but it's all karma. Support your community and your community will support you.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Y'all know I love Fredericton but the outpouring of support for Sara Holyoke takes it to another level. Over $100k raised in less than 24 hours. Not sure there's many people in this town that could get that kind of love but it's all karma. Support your community and your community will support you.
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Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
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Simon Fraser University: Assistant Professor in the area of Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/11/simon-fraser-university-assistant.html
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Simon Fraser University: Assistant Professor in the area of Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/11/simon-fraser-university-assistant.html
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Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.
Exceptionally large “through-space” nuclear spin coupling in a 2,4,6-tri(phosphanyl)-1,3,5-triphosphabenzene
We describe the synthesis of a phosphanyl-functionalized 1,3,5-triphosphabenzene that exhibits remarkably large indirect spin-spin coupling (432 Hz) between phosphorus-31 nuclei. The magnitude of this...
pubs.rsc.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.
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New research at UNB could hold the key to better aluminum recycling -- and to creating trillions of litres of sustainable, green hydrogen fuel every year.
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
From refinery waste to useful materials and green fuel: New research could revolutionize the global aluminum industry
New research by UNB chemistry professor Dr. Barry Blight could revolutionize how we deal with aluminum refining waste, aluminum recycling and even fuelling our world—reducing how much material ends up...
blogs.unb.ca
October 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New research at UNB could hold the key to better aluminum recycling -- and to creating trillions of litres of sustainable, green hydrogen fuel every year.
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Happy to be highlighted by @unbresearch.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social for this exciting work completed by Dr Mason Lawrence and Rob Horne on our team, supported by Research NB. blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
From refinery waste to useful materials and green fuel: New research could revolutionize the global aluminum industry
New research by UNB chemistry professor Dr. Barry Blight could revolutionize how we deal with aluminum refining waste, aluminum recycling and even fuelling our world—reducing how much material ends up...
blogs.unb.ca
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy to be highlighted by @unbresearch.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social for this exciting work completed by Dr Mason Lawrence and Rob Horne on our team, supported by Research NB. blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Nice to See MOFs getting their shine. With that said, please think about contributing to a special MOF issue of @materialsadvances.rsc.org curated by @chemashlee.bsky.social, @majikatz.bsky.social, and myself.
blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...
blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...
Call for Papers: Fundamental Advances in Metal-Organic Frameworks – Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog
blogs.rsc.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Nice to See MOFs getting their shine. With that said, please think about contributing to a special MOF issue of @materialsadvances.rsc.org curated by @chemashlee.bsky.social, @majikatz.bsky.social, and myself.
blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...
blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...
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Mount Allison University: Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/10/mount-allison-university-organic.html
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mount Allison University: Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/10/mount-allison-university-organic.html
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Making food from thin air sounds like science fiction but that's what some companies are starting to do using captured carbon dioxide.
How is carbon dioxide being turned into food in the lab?
Butter made from captured CO2 is the latest food item to make headlines, highlighting growing interest in this field
www.chemistryworld.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Making food from thin air sounds like science fiction but that's what some companies are starting to do using captured carbon dioxide.
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Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky
Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry
Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky
Many Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Many Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social
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Transforming Aluminium Waste: Sustainable Conversion to Commercial MOFs, Hydrogen Fuel, and Essential Aluminium Feedstocks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SU/D5SU00631G
August 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Transforming Aluminium Waste: Sustainable Conversion to Commercial MOFs, Hydrogen Fuel, and Essential Aluminium Feedstocks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SU/D5SU00631G
Very excited to finally be able to share this exciting open-access work, 3 years in the making. Sustainably converting waste alumin(i)um into AL-MOFs, alumina at much lower temperatures, and hydrogen gas as a biproduct. Congrats to Dr Mason Lawrence for driving this, and Robbie Horne.
Transforming aluminium waste: sustainable conversion to commercial MOFs, hydrogen fuel, and essential aluminium feedstocks
Aluminium dross waste is generated during the aluminium smelting process and has an annual production of nearly 5.3 M tonnes worldwide. It is largely comprised of aluminium but also contains different...
pubs.rsc.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Very excited to finally be able to share this exciting open-access work, 3 years in the making. Sustainably converting waste alumin(i)um into AL-MOFs, alumina at much lower temperatures, and hydrogen gas as a biproduct. Congrats to Dr Mason Lawrence for driving this, and Robbie Horne.
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🎓 Applications open for the first Carsten Schmuck PhD Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry!
Happy to share that the recently founded Working Group „Supramolecular Chemistry“ of the German Chemical Society will Award its very first PhD Prize in memory of Carsten Schmuck. Please apply!
www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...
www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...
Preise & Ehrungen | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.
www.gdch.de
August 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🎓 Applications open for the first Carsten Schmuck PhD Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry!
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They say that constraint can breed creativity.
Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:
blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:
blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
UNB research administrator Kara MacGillivray recognized for community-minded creativity
At the Canadian Association of Research Administrators’ (CARA) 2025 Canadian Conference on Research Administration, held in Fredericton in May, UNB’s Kara MacGillivray, a financial analyst in research...
blogs.unb.ca
August 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They say that constraint can breed creativity.
Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:
blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:
blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
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This is the right kind of news. More of this please.
July 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is the right kind of news. More of this please.