Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions
"Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University will be evaluated by their commitment to open science."
Just published in 'Science'. The latest research paper from my group: "Let it snow inside liquid metals"
"Liquid metal synthesis solvents for metallic crystals"
Joint first authors: Dr Shuhada Saidi and Dr Jianbo Tang
@jianbo_tang
Thanks to my group members: past and present, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, UNSW, UNSW Chemical Engineering, UNSW Engineering, RMIT, Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council
@roysocchem
#RSCprizes
#ARC
#NHMRC
I am honored to join the board of 'American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Nano Materials' journal as an Associate Editor
It is a great journal. I encourage you all to submit your best reviews and research papers to this journal
@ACS_AMI
@UNSWChemEng
Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science arrived - what a sorrow I could not travel to the UK to receive it in person
By Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK
Today I looked in my archive:
In the past decade I helped 38 DECRA and Future Fellow applicants on writing grants that 100% and solely belong to them (I spent days and sometimes weeks on each). Many in competing institutions. The success rate was ~50%. Something to be proud of
As a reviewer I never reject a paper based on my perceived impact of the paper and the quality of the journal
I believe that I can never be certain about how a scientific work may influence a field in the future
This is against the general academic trend
What do you think?
Our perspective published today (Science, 2024, 385, 372-373)
"The atomic intelligence of liquid metals"
Liquid metals may deliver greener and more sustainable chemical reactions
Co-authored with Prof Torben Daeneke
@TDaeneke
and Dr Junma Tang
Today we can officially call Chengchen, Dr. Chengchen Zhang ! Congratulations Dr. Zhang !
Dr. Chengchen Zhang created fundamentally important bodies of work, on the interactions of organic and bio materials with liquid metals, during her PhD.
@_ChengchenZhang
It is an honour to join 'Nanoscale' as one of the advisory board members. Nanoscale is one of the well-established journals in the field of nanotechnology, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK
@nanoscale_rsc
Finally after nearly 4 years of living in Sydney made it to Vivid (festival of light, music and ideas) - the final evening of this annual event in 2022
As academics, scientists and researchers, we need to be kind to each other
We have to be the role models
Without working together and harnessing the prejudices, science and kindness will vanish simultaneously
Today was the official start of our new start up ‘Liquid Metal Plus’ (LM Plus or LM+)
The first picture of the team (unfortunately Dr
@DEsrafilzadeh
Esrafilzadeh left us just before taking the photo) at UNSW CASLEO lab
Can we all start a campaign together and ask for doubling the ARC and NHMRC fund for the next 5 years as a part of the pandemic recovery plan? We need a sound narrative for justification and should work with everyone across the country coherently to deliver a compelling message
Our paper is online: introduced a new liquid metal based paradigm as an alternative to catalytic reactions using solid state materials (these reactions produce >10% greenhouse emissions worldwide)
Published in “Nature Nanotechnology”
First author Dr Tang
In 2 hours will give you information about the groundbreaking invention of a superconductor that operates at 25C !
👉 Hint: I live in Sydney, which is ahead of time with reference to the rest of the world !
Figure ref: wiki
The first impact factor for ACS Applied Nano Materials is 5.097
I hope that the journal receives the continued support of fantastic scientists in the fields (especially PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) to grow with the journal together in the coming years
@ACS_AMI
Honoured to join the Advisory Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science, one of the relatively older journals in the field of materials sciences with a great history (>37 years) of publications by many Physics Nobel Prize Laureates
(website is still slow)
At the Royal Society of New South Wales (NSW) awards ceremony, NSW Government House (13th of August, 2020).
With Professor Evelleen Richards, Professor George Paxinos and Professor Brynn Hibbert
A record for my Christmas day: so far 24 peer review requests since I woke up in the morning and it is still only 9:30 pm
Just a piece of advice: maybe think it over before submitting your paper within a week before the end of year holidays
Scott Morrison (the Australian prime minister) holding the gas sensing capsule - a decade after its invention in my lab and five years after I tested it on myself
A long journey and real revolution for future diagnostics !
#AtmoBiosciences
End of year group photo
Members of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO), UNSW
We wish everyone a safe year in 2021
#UNSW
By Ms Hareem Khan in Nature Communications. It took over two years of hard work for her to finish this brilliant paper.
A record output power for two dimensional piezoelectric systems based on SnS. A new liquid metal based deposition method.
@Har33mKhan
The report on an extraordinary development from my lab is out: synthesising 2D graphitic materials - for the first time at room temperature - using liquid metals
Published in ‘Advanced Materials’ and the first author is intelligent Dr Mohannad Mayyas
After ~10 years of journey when it first started in my lab
Atmo is moving forward full speed with the commercialisation of the gas sensing capsule and deploying it to the market
“Gut health medtech Atmo Biosciences raises $9.6m, IPO next year”
The first proper get together with our research group at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering USYD (also with a few nice guests)
Beautiful day for a BBQ
Thanks everyone
I believe that this paper is likely the best work of 2023 (I did not notice it first when published - our PhD student, Luis Campos, drew my attention to it later)
“Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting”
I wrote this paper together with talented research fellows working with me (Dr Arifur and Dr Tang)
A perspective on what low melting temperature liquid metals can offer to physical chemistry
ACS Editors' Choice (thanks ACS)
@ACSPublications
Germany currently spends ~3.2% of its GDP on research and development, putting it ahead of the US and neck and neck with Japan. How much is Australia? Only ~1.8%
Is this the best ever resolution reported? It is just astonishing
Incredible microscopy achieved when the detector is slightly defocused, blurring the beam
The main paper was just published in Science
Led by Prof David Muller, Cornell University
Gut bacteria break down cholesterol
"Researchers have identified gut bacteria that can transform artery-clogging cholesterol into a more harmless form."
Led by Ramnik Xavier, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Ancient DNA analysis reveals dingoes have been in Australia for thousands of years
The canines are related to dogs and wolves from China, not domestic dogs, new study suggests
Interface Dynamics in Ag-Cu3P Nanoparticle Heterostructures
The TEM movie shows the transformation of the Cu phase of a Ag-Cu nanoparticle heterostructure into Cu3P.
Read more about our latest contribution in
@J_A_C_S
here
@NanoLund
@ACSNanotation
I have always been in awe with the elegance and beauty of Flamingos. But their numbers are falling sharply, a decline researchers have linked to a paradoxical effect of climate change.
RIP Gordon Moore. He was the proposer of an observed trend which is now called Moore's law "... that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years."
A successful engineer, entrepreneur, innovator and a billionaire.
This took two and a half years of our time (just published in Nature Electronics) - a true revolution in conducive transparent glasses that was achieved by a liquid metal synthesis process
Maybe, maybe not !
“Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say
Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next months and beyond as the Sun hits its 'maximum'.”
Very nice work from my lab. This is a report on magnetic and conductive gels that can possibly have many future applications - led by my postdoctoral fellow Dr Francois Allioux. Well done Ms Salma Merhebi to publish your first paper
Another paper from my group
First author: Dr Mohammad Bagher Ghasemian
Coating of gallium-based liquid metal particles with molybdenum oxide and oxysulfide for electronic band structure modulation
In Nanoscale
@nanoscale_rsc
The new set of advanced laboratories at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, has commenced operations. This great investment offers a new angle in research and development in New South Wales, specifically, and in Australia, as a whole.
Transforming CO2 & CH4 emissions into carbonaceous materials using cold plasma
In JACS
First author Josip Knezevic
Led by PJ Cullen, Tianqi Zhang & Renwu Zhou
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Eng, USYD
@PJCullen100
@J_A_C_S
@Eng_IT_Sydney
@Sydney_Uni