@bandgapwagon
AG and 🦎GECOS🦎 group hop on the bandgap wagon mostly between hydrogen, batteries, and low-power electronics in Glasgow Chemistry. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/chemistry/staff/alexeyganin/ All views and opinions are my own, not the UoG's.
This paper came out of probably the largest team I’ve ever worked with and some serious data analysis. Huge credit to a fantastic collaborators (pity none of the team except @profdraper.bsky.social here) for making the experiments possible. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/high-hopes Zero returns. Can you believe that? I don’t.
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The only way to catch up with esteemed colleagues (like @vihar.bsky.social) is to catch them at an event. Thank you SPEERI
Two things come to mind after reading the article. Phil Tetlock's research where well-over than "four dozen specialists” quoted in article were out-predicted by dart-throwing primates. And this amazing substack “Bag of words have mercy on us" www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...
When I talk to fresh PIs, I say an hour in the lab costs an hour of esteem. Of course I ignore my own advice. I’m unpacking that stubborn belief in my new substack, The Work Nobody Sees. But De Niro was probably onto something at the wheel of his taxi. groundinghour.substack.com/p/the-work-n...
Grey He lecture bottle connected to a gas regulator
Like @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com I remain haunted by standing charges. Large He cylinders sit quietly like Preta, aka hungry ghosts, consuming budget relentlessly. For equipment rarely used, lecture bottles is a way stop feeding the cylinder charges ghosts.
A graph showing consumers sentiments
After seeing that beautiful infographics @nature.com piece “Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe?” www.nature.com/immersive/d4..., I could not stop myself from revamping my Valentine’s graph. It used to be effectively invisible on a small screen.
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Recency bias is wild. Yesterday’s FT: “British scientist raising $1bn for new AI lab.” First thought @leecronin.bsky.social or @aicooper.bsky.social Meanwhile, back on Earth: the partnership between batteries & hydrogen is what will actually keep those servers running without blackouts.
A PhD is available in the Sutherland group to develop synthetic methods to access novel amino acid and peptide-based probes to start in October 2026. Deadlines for applications is 31st March. See link for details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A glassed door with a picture of a lunar calendar for the year of a horse.
A lunar calendar page has turned on the window to the GECOS research office. In true academic style, it still bears a few traces of previous years. Happy New Year of the Horse!
I have a 2 year PDRA position available in my group focusing on synthetic organic chemistry for supramolecular materials. Please apply using the link below if you’d be a good fit for the role in Glasgow @uofgchem.bsky.social
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Photo of a benchtop XRF spectrometer with a sample changer for 10 samples.
Why XRF is so underused in materials chemistry? It’s puzzling why we gravitate towards labor-intensive SEM/EDX when even benchtop XRF gives composition in minutes. If the group is arguing about mystery white powder on balances, no gold sputtering is required as XRF is indifferent to surface charge.
The image consist of bar chart with blue bars representing Valentines day consumer preference.
Stephen Hawking once joked that every equation halves book sales. So today’s graph for my Substack post "Five Minutes at the Kitchen Table" goes here. 86 % claim to value small gestures, yet most people still default to predictable choices. substack.com/home/post/p-...
CVD reactor with GECOS group logo
klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/fortune-tellers notes how superstition is woven into East Asian investing as a way of living with uncertainty. In the same spirit, hoping the CNYwill bring uniform deposition and monolayer growth. Time to add a lucky charm to our CVD reactors for the year of 🐎!
Nothing beats that early hit of a data screenshot. For a moment, your mind fits it to everything, even exponential decay, before the completed experiment comes crashing in. But that moment stretches out for days, and your mind keeps drafting phantom openings, “In this work, we …”
When your turbo pump goes Zzzeee, overheats, and flashes red, the initial reaction is like, “Oh no, the turbo ist kaputt.”
A seasoned PI, “Right, need a new turbo.”
A budget-conscious, “Nope, a new diaphragm pump.”
You may discover Vacuubrand and Edwards differ mostly in colour. Turbo ist intakt.
Time to replace Exp. 5 in Inorg 3? We are still doing that edible MOF.
The daily grind at GECOS by Weihao Li. Replacing a thermocouple in an ageing furnace, a practical skill rarely covered in textbooks but frequently required in real laboratories.
No better way to start on Bluesky! Delighted&proud to see this in ACS Catalysis! My former PhD student ran the show while I mentored from the sidelines. 10M NaOH at 95°C is a "trial by fire" for most HER catalysts, but these antiperovskites didn't flinch. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...