We solve problems in energy and sustainability with better materials.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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2/2 The team achieved titers of 1.84 g/L and showed that these #renewablemonomers can be used to create recyclable plastics with tunable thermal and mechanical properties.
Congratulations to the entire team on this incredible achievement!
Read it here: nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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We're thrilled to share our new manuscript in @NatureBiotech, led by former postdoc Zilong Wang! We engineered #PolyketideSynthases to produce renewable monomers for plastics with programmable properties, enabling materials-by-design for a circular and sustainable future. 1/2
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Early-bird discounted registration deadline for Innovations in Plastics Recycling & Sustainability is NEXT WEDNESDAY!
Deadline: July 15, 2026.
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#POLYworkshop #IPRS26
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Register now to secure the early-bird discounted registration for Innovations in Plastics Recycling & Sustainability!
Deadline: July 15, 2026.
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#POLYworkshop #IPRS26
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New Article online!
Flow-synchronized, ring-shaped electrochemical ion pumping, which eliminates the need for terminal electrodes and enables redox-free, energy-efficient, and continuous desalination across scales.
Open access link: nature.com/articles/s44286-0…
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We ♥️ our collaborators at escience.washington.edu/! Thank you to @schmidtsciences for supporting the partnership. The calbioscape.org tool is now lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-b…
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Scientists have found a way to track molecule movement during plastic recycling using NMR spectroscopy. This approach could revolutionize how we design and recycle plastics, bringing us closer to a truly circular economy. bit.ly/3KNBXow
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I'm presenting OMol25 tomorrow 7/29 at 9 AM PST as part of a talk series at Google. Learn how we built the dataset + how MLIPs trained on OMol are revolutionizing comp chem!
Meet: lnkd.in/g4AAWkcK
YouTube Stream: lnkd.in/ggmtMtTR
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With ~180K materials and millions of calculated properties, the Materials Project enables inverse design, synthesis screening, and discovery. Examples include phosphors, thermoelectrics, electrides, and battery electrolytes.
Horton et al, Nature Materials
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MLIP evaluation: Matbench Discovery focuses on predicting stability; universal interatomic potentials (UIPs) are top performers w/ ~5X improvement in discovery efficiency. Regression accuracy not the same as discovery!
@jrib_ et al., Nat. Mach. Intell.
doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-0…
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Electrochemical PVC borylation is now online! Great job materials team!
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🎉 Congrats to Cyclotron Road on 10 years of hard-tech innovation! As @ENERGY's longest-running Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP), CR has shown what's possible when we unite science entrepreneurs with the resources of our national labs. 🙌🏽 vimeo.com/1085173853
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You're looking at the future of #electrochemistry, the class of #NGenE2025. We conclude an intense week of discussions, networking and gelling of ideas. They're ready to reach and conquer the frontiers. We can't wait to see what they do next!
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Thanks @steingart @GroupHelms #UNIGRID and Toyota Research for the wonderful panel discussion on the future of Na and Zn #Electrochemistry!
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We are excited to share our most recent publication in @ScienceMagazine in collaboration with the Pinnau group at KAUST: “Microporous polyimine membranes for efficient separation of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures” science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Backbone editing and deconstruction of polyethylene by Beckmann rearrangement and hydrogenolysis pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Arti…
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The Open Molecules 2025 dataset is out! With >100M gold-standard ωB97M-V/def2-TZVPD calcs of biomolecules, electrolytes, metal complexes, and small molecules, OMol is by far the largest, most diverse, and highest quality molecular DFT dataset for training MLIPs ever made 1/N
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Happy #NationalBatteryDay 😁! Wonderful time at #NattBatt conference in Orlando - seeing the real numbers of global EV sales.
Retweet if you are celebrating 🎉 the battery day like us !!!
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Excited to share our lastest work about high-performance Na-ion batteries from a sustainable organic cathode @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… This cathode we @DincaGroup developed solves the dissolution and insulating problems of organic electrodes for SIBs. Details in 🧵
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Excited to share the latest work led by Shira Haber with @GroupHelms @ReimerLab @UCB_Chemistry (Pines Magnetic Resonance Center) @molecularfndry @KPatBerkeley
studying mechanisms that underpin heterogeneous deconstruction of circular polymers.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
