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Tomás Nicolás-García
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Scientist at University of Manchester. Exploring how tension and force activate polymers and molecular machines. #NanocarRaceII champion. Trust me, I am a chemist. #ChemSky
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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...
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 […]
iupac.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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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?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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.
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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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/...
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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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‼️ 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...
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...
www.eldiario.es
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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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 🧪
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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.
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
www.chemistryworld.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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 🧪
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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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
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.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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
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.
go.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Benzene at 200
✍️ Nazario Martín

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benz...
Benzene at 200
Celebrating the molecule that changed the world
www.chemistryworld.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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...
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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/...
September 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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
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.
go.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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 🧪
August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Calling all chemists and polymer scientists! We are seeking your feedback on new recommendations for classifying and defining polymerization reactions—a chance to help shape the language of our field. Read the provisional recommendation here: iupac.org/recommendati...
#chemsky #polymers @iupac.org
Basic Classification and Definitions of Polymerization Reactions - IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Provisional Recommendations Abstract: This document provides recommendations addressing the long-standing dilemma of the wide variety of terms that are used to describe the two common classes of polym...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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This is an excellent illustration of how useless the "Impact Factor" metric is.

The most influential multidisciplinary chem journals are JACS and Angewandte. They did not make the list.

In this short ad hoc 🧵 I will analyze in real time what made the list and why. I have a bad feeling about this.
August 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A nanoscopic machine transforms a molecular chain into interlocking loops

go.nature.com/4omi3zO
Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic
A nanoscopic machine transforms a molecular chain into interlocking loops.
go.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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OPINIÓN | "El Mediterráneo se calienta dos o tres veces más rápido que otros mares, al ser un mar cerrado, con mucha radiación solar y sin apenas intercambio con otros océanos", por Pedro Belmonte Espejo.
Mares tropicales
El Mediterráneo se calienta dos o tres veces más rápido que otros mares, al ser un mar cerrado, con mucha radiación solar y sin apenas intercambio con otros océanos
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July 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky

Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors
@fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content.

www.nature.com/collections/...
Mechanically interlocked molecules
This Collection aims to bring together the latest research on mechanically interlocked molecules, including with respect to their design, construction, ...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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El Mar Menor entra en fase de alerta por la pérdida de luz en el fondo marino leer.laverdad.es/79jgp3
El Mar Menor entra en fase de alerta por la pérdida de luz en el fondo marino | La Verdad
Los científicos del IEO advierten de que «existe un elevado riesgo» para la laguna si persiste o aumenta la clorofila, que ha crecido en las últimas semanas hasta niveles
leer.laverdad.es
July 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM