Dr Andrea Laybourn
@andrealaybourn.bsky.social
Materials chemist & adopted engineer. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Assoc Prof @ Uni Leeds, UK. Porous functional materials, #MOFs #microwave, #flow synthesis, scale-up. Part of #MOFleyCrew. She/her 🌈 #FirstGen #WomeninSTEM #UKRI #UKRIFLF. Own views.
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Nominations are open for our 2026 Prizes!
This is your chance to help us honour individuals and teams driving progress and making a difference across the chemical sciences. Submit your nomination by 17:00 GMT on 14 January. Find out more: https://rsc.li/48byd87 #ChemSky #RSCPrizes
This is your chance to help us honour individuals and teams driving progress and making a difference across the chemical sciences. Submit your nomination by 17:00 GMT on 14 January. Find out more: https://rsc.li/48byd87 #ChemSky #RSCPrizes
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Nominations are open for our 2026 Prizes!
This is your chance to help us honour individuals and teams driving progress and making a difference across the chemical sciences. Submit your nomination by 17:00 GMT on 14 January. Find out more: https://rsc.li/48byd87 #ChemSky #RSCPrizes
This is your chance to help us honour individuals and teams driving progress and making a difference across the chemical sciences. Submit your nomination by 17:00 GMT on 14 January. Find out more: https://rsc.li/48byd87 #ChemSky #RSCPrizes
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Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social
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Honored to present at EUROMOF 2025 in Crete 🌍
Talk: continuous flow synthesis of water-based MOFs for toxic gas capture.
Poster: awarded Best Poster 🏆 at the Young Scientists Symposium!
Grateful for the support of my supervisors @andrealaybourn.bsky.social
#EUROMOF2025 #MOFs #Research
Talk: continuous flow synthesis of water-based MOFs for toxic gas capture.
Poster: awarded Best Poster 🏆 at the Young Scientists Symposium!
Grateful for the support of my supervisors @andrealaybourn.bsky.social
#EUROMOF2025 #MOFs #Research
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Honored to present at EUROMOF 2025 in Crete 🌍
Talk: continuous flow synthesis of water-based MOFs for toxic gas capture.
Poster: awarded Best Poster 🏆 at the Young Scientists Symposium!
Grateful for the support of my supervisors @andrealaybourn.bsky.social
#EUROMOF2025 #MOFs #Research
Talk: continuous flow synthesis of water-based MOFs for toxic gas capture.
Poster: awarded Best Poster 🏆 at the Young Scientists Symposium!
Grateful for the support of my supervisors @andrealaybourn.bsky.social
#EUROMOF2025 #MOFs #Research
At #EuroMOF2025. The sheer number of MOFs named after uni/company, changing the number when only difference is metal ion used to make the MOF and name gives no indication what the chemical composition is from "xxMOF-n" shows that we need a standardised nomenclature desperately. #IUPAC #chemsky #MOFs
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
At #EuroMOF2025. The sheer number of MOFs named after uni/company, changing the number when only difference is metal ion used to make the MOF and name gives no indication what the chemical composition is from "xxMOF-n" shows that we need a standardised nomenclature desperately. #IUPAC #chemsky #MOFs
Today at #EuroMOFYSS @valubelu.bsky.social will be presenting our recent paper on SO2 sensing using MFM-300 MOFs. On Tue #EuroMOF2025 Hashim will present his work towards this. For more information see our paper below.
📢 New Publication in Small:
“Fluorescent Sensing of SO₂ by MFM-300(M) Metal–Organic Frameworks: Influence of Semi-Open Metal Centres”
Read here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/smll...
#MOFs #SO2 #Sensors #MaterialsScience #Collaboration
@andrealaybourn.bsky.social @valubelu.bsky.social
“Fluorescent Sensing of SO₂ by MFM-300(M) Metal–Organic Frameworks: Influence of Semi-Open Metal Centres”
Read here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/smll...
#MOFs #SO2 #Sensors #MaterialsScience #Collaboration
@andrealaybourn.bsky.social @valubelu.bsky.social
Fluorescent Sensing of SO2 by MFM‐300(M) Metal–Organic Frameworks: Influence of Semi‐Open Metal Centres
The MFM-300(M) series is investigated as a fluorescent platform for SO2 detection, highlighting how the nature of metal centers modulates fluorescence emission. MFM-300(Al) displays the brightest emi...
doi.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Today at #EuroMOFYSS @valubelu.bsky.social will be presenting our recent paper on SO2 sensing using MFM-300 MOFs. On Tue #EuroMOF2025 Hashim will present his work towards this. For more information see our paper below.
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We can’t wait for #EuroMOF to kick off this Sunday!
Super excited for the plenary talks by Omar Yaghi and Susumu Kitagawa – what a way to start the conference!
#MOF #COF #PorousPolymers #Science
www.euromof2025.com/i/ProgrammeF...
Super excited for the plenary talks by Omar Yaghi and Susumu Kitagawa – what a way to start the conference!
#MOF #COF #PorousPolymers #Science
www.euromof2025.com/i/ProgrammeF...
6th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2025)
Welcome
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are delighted to welcome you to the 6th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2025).
Building on the success of previou...
www.euromof2025.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We can’t wait for #EuroMOF to kick off this Sunday!
Super excited for the plenary talks by Omar Yaghi and Susumu Kitagawa – what a way to start the conference!
#MOF #COF #PorousPolymers #Science
www.euromof2025.com/i/ProgrammeF...
Super excited for the plenary talks by Omar Yaghi and Susumu Kitagawa – what a way to start the conference!
#MOF #COF #PorousPolymers #Science
www.euromof2025.com/i/ProgrammeF...
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Sanjit Nayak announcing date for UKPorMat-2026, which is 9 to 10th June 2026 at University of Bristol.
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Sanjit Nayak announcing date for UKPorMat-2026, which is 9 to 10th June 2026 at University of Bristol.
On the train providing feedback to thesis chapters. Movie sound tracks are blasting out of my headphones. Under the stars by Hans Zimmer & Moana are favourites. Anyone else want to share their favourite music to listen to while reviewing theses, papers, etc? #chemsky the more unusual, the better!
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
On the train providing feedback to thesis chapters. Movie sound tracks are blasting out of my headphones. Under the stars by Hans Zimmer & Moana are favourites. Anyone else want to share their favourite music to listen to while reviewing theses, papers, etc? #chemsky the more unusual, the better!
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Join us for the next #IASWebinar by Randall Snurr on diffusion measurements in nanoporous materials using molecular simulations as part of our special series on the recent IUPAC report on diffusion.
Time: Sept. 3, 1400 UTC
YouTube: bit.ly/iasyoutube
Time: Sept. 3, 1400 UTC
YouTube: bit.ly/iasyoutube
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Join us for the next #IASWebinar by Randall Snurr on diffusion measurements in nanoporous materials using molecular simulations as part of our special series on the recent IUPAC report on diffusion.
Time: Sept. 3, 1400 UTC
YouTube: bit.ly/iasyoutube
Time: Sept. 3, 1400 UTC
YouTube: bit.ly/iasyoutube
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🚀 Only 50 days to go until the Young Scientist Symposium of #EuroMOF2025!
Currently planning the last details - we're excited and ready to make it an amazing experience for all of you! 🥳
Keep tuned for more details, coming from mid August onwards...
Currently planning the last details - we're excited and ready to make it an amazing experience for all of you! 🥳
Keep tuned for more details, coming from mid August onwards...
August 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚀 Only 50 days to go until the Young Scientist Symposium of #EuroMOF2025!
Currently planning the last details - we're excited and ready to make it an amazing experience for all of you! 🥳
Keep tuned for more details, coming from mid August onwards...
Currently planning the last details - we're excited and ready to make it an amazing experience for all of you! 🥳
Keep tuned for more details, coming from mid August onwards...
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Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩🔬🔧💎🤖
australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...
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Beamline Scientist - MX
Beamline Scientist - MX
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July 31, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩🔬🔧💎🤖
australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...
australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...
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Congratulations to all of our poster prize winners at UKPORMAT 2025, and to @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social and @unibirmingham.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.
Winners, and certificate pictures below
Winners, and certificate pictures below
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Congratulations to all of our poster prize winners at UKPORMAT 2025, and to @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social and @unibirmingham.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.
Winners, and certificate pictures below
Winners, and certificate pictures below
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Thanks to all who attended UKPORMAT25, and the @unibirmingham.bsky.social for hosting it.
It was great to see so many interesting talks, poster presentations and fruitful scientific discussions.
See you all next year at Bristol!
It was great to see so many interesting talks, poster presentations and fruitful scientific discussions.
See you all next year at Bristol!
June 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thanks to all who attended UKPORMAT25, and the @unibirmingham.bsky.social for hosting it.
It was great to see so many interesting talks, poster presentations and fruitful scientific discussions.
See you all next year at Bristol!
It was great to see so many interesting talks, poster presentations and fruitful scientific discussions.
See you all next year at Bristol!
Reposted by Dr Andrea Laybourn
Two roles live in our Group - a S/PLRS
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn
June 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Two roles live in our Group - a S/PLRS
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn
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Second role live in our Group - a PDRA
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten
June 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Second role live in our Group - a PDRA
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten
Last day to apply for a PDRA position in the group! Come join us! 👇👇👇 #chemsky
📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering
Are you an experienced and ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Are you looking to apply...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
June 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Last day to apply for a PDRA position in the group! Come join us! 👇👇👇 #chemsky
Last chance to apply for a PhD in our group. Deadline, tomorrow, 30th May. Don't miss out! 👇👇👇 #chemsky
📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production
Project opportunity - Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production at the University of Leeds
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May 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Last chance to apply for a PhD in our group. Deadline, tomorrow, 30th May. Don't miss out! 👇👇👇 #chemsky
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Today is #MenstrualHealthDay 🩸 To mark it, here's the second of my graphical collaborations with @periodically.bsky.social looking at the chemistry behind intrauterine devices and how they prevent pregnancy: wp.me/s4aPLT-iuds
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
May 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Today is #MenstrualHealthDay 🩸 To mark it, here's the second of my graphical collaborations with @periodically.bsky.social looking at the chemistry behind intrauterine devices and how they prevent pregnancy: wp.me/s4aPLT-iuds
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
Interested in:
➡️ #flow and/or #microwave & #MOF synthesis
OR
➡️ Applications of #MOFs for air/water #pollution
& want to apply for #MCSA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with us at Uni of Leeds?
Please contact me via email by 16th June if you’re eligible & think our research aligns. #chemsky🧪
➡️ #flow and/or #microwave & #MOF synthesis
OR
➡️ Applications of #MOFs for air/water #pollution
& want to apply for #MCSA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with us at Uni of Leeds?
Please contact me via email by 16th June if you’re eligible & think our research aligns. #chemsky🧪
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Interested in:
➡️ #flow and/or #microwave & #MOF synthesis
OR
➡️ Applications of #MOFs for air/water #pollution
& want to apply for #MCSA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with us at Uni of Leeds?
Please contact me via email by 16th June if you’re eligible & think our research aligns. #chemsky🧪
➡️ #flow and/or #microwave & #MOF synthesis
OR
➡️ Applications of #MOFs for air/water #pollution
& want to apply for #MCSA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with us at Uni of Leeds?
Please contact me via email by 16th June if you’re eligible & think our research aligns. #chemsky🧪
📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production
Project opportunity - Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production at the University of Leeds
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering
Are you an experienced and ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Are you looking to apply...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Today we learned the Diels-Alder Reaction
April 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today we learned the Diels-Alder Reaction
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We are looking for someone to join us as a part-time laboratory technician at the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) facility, based in Chemistry at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) in White City, to provide technical assistance across ROAR and @aichemyhub.bsky.social
Laboratory Technician at Imperial College London
Recruiting now: Laboratory Technician on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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April 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We are looking for someone to join us as a part-time laboratory technician at the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) facility, based in Chemistry at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) in White City, to provide technical assistance across ROAR and @aichemyhub.bsky.social
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As I (hopefully) round the final corners of 2 big grants I've been writing, I can't stress how much my thinking has been expanded by both old & new colleagues, key facility leaders & people with lived experience. Unsolicited advice to younger researchers - reach out, network, be collaborative 🧪
April 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
As I (hopefully) round the final corners of 2 big grants I've been writing, I can't stress how much my thinking has been expanded by both old & new colleagues, key facility leaders & people with lived experience. Unsolicited advice to younger researchers - reach out, network, be collaborative 🧪
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🚨 Abstract Deadline Extended! 🚨
Like #EuroMOF2025, we’re happy to give you a bit more time! Join more than 100+ early-career researchers who already submitted their abstracts!
⭐ Start writing your abstract and May the 4th be with you!
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.euromof2025.com/i/Registrati...
Like #EuroMOF2025, we’re happy to give you a bit more time! Join more than 100+ early-career researchers who already submitted their abstracts!
⭐ Start writing your abstract and May the 4th be with you!
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.euromof2025.com/i/Registrati...
April 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Abstract Deadline Extended! 🚨
Like #EuroMOF2025, we’re happy to give you a bit more time! Join more than 100+ early-career researchers who already submitted their abstracts!
⭐ Start writing your abstract and May the 4th be with you!
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.euromof2025.com/i/Registrati...
Like #EuroMOF2025, we’re happy to give you a bit more time! Join more than 100+ early-career researchers who already submitted their abstracts!
⭐ Start writing your abstract and May the 4th be with you!
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.euromof2025.com/i/Registrati...