As part of the #ChiralCrew stand @ExRdFestival we made a Pastarimeter: a device that shows how light becomes circularly polarised as it travels through a chiral medium. The pastarimeter uses right-handed and left-handed fusilli to twist water clockwise and anti-clockwise! 🍝🌀
The abstract submission deadline for oral presentations has been extended to May 15. Don’t miss out the opportunity to present at VOA-7! For those planning to attend remotely, discounted registration fees also end on May 15. Visit voa7.voaconference.com for more information.
The review is dedicated to Meir Lahav & Leslie Leiserowitz on their winning the 2021 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The solid-state structure is of the (RRRRRRRRRRRR)-enantiomer of a Borromean Ring with 12 stereogenic centers. @NUChemistry@IINanoNU@NorthwesternU
Think spectroscopists just sit around in dark rooms all day staring at lasers? Think again! #SAS member Dr. Isao Noda (@Noda_Isao) rang the opening bell at the NYSE on December 30th to announce the IPO of his company, Danimer Scientific.
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Moderna’s and Pfizer’s #COVID19 vaccines have put mRNA vaccines in the spotlight, but the technology is more than a decade in the making. Revisit our 2018 cover story on how start-ups and scientists moved mRNA out of the lab and into the clinic. ow.ly/lsV450CngUJ
Many thanks to @EGA_chem and @CarinLightner for presenting at the 1st SEEDS4CD virtual seminar! It was a great success with >70 participants.
Stay tuned for the next edition!
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We are still accepting registrations! It's free and the science is cool, so sign up and listen to the talks tomorrow, Oct 9th, at 4 PM CEST! Click here: seeds4cd.mertenlab.de
Proud to have our co-Founder & President - Dr. Rina Dukor on the governing board of @SocAppSpec. One of our favorite scientific organizations that also publishes @AppliedSpec Journal and is one of the founding members of @FACSSnetworking
Applications are do in two weeks (9/4) for the 2021 SPIE-Hillenkamp Fellowship. If you are interested in biophotonics, or biomedical optics we encourage you to submit an application. Click the link for more info: buff.ly/3iPbFyH#spectroscopy#SAS@SPIEtweets
Researchers have designed an iridium #catalyst with a “chiral cave” that locks onto substrates and borylates them at a particular spot. Read on to learn about the 30 different compounds it can make: ow.ly/GwFz50B5YyH