Chemistry in a New Light: Designing Materials for Energy and Electronics of the Future

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined October 2014
The @bernlab students started ranking elements. Should Pt actually be top tier? Also, why the distaste for f elements?
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Chocolate: The Gateway (Drug?) to Chemistry Lecture with tasty single-origin samples at @HKUniversity
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Your breakfast leftovers and your laundry pile just became feedstocks. Copper on titania, 425 nm LEDs, and a high-throughput screen: sugars, glycerol, fruit juice, cellulose, and cotton all photogenerate H₂. Details in ACS Applied Energy Materials: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Democratizing Reaction Kinetics through Machine Vision and Learning Thousands of reaction rates for amide couplings measured with a $200 3D-printed reactor. Great collaboration @BaumerMitch (@bernlab) and Liliana Gallegos (@olexandr and @gabepgomes)! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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It is always good to end the week with something pretty!
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When a $250 GC from eBay outperforms a $750 filament replacement, you realize that resourcefulness is often more valuable than resources...
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Bernhard Research @ CMU retweeted
In just under a month new classes of undergraduates, Master's and PhD students will be joining us here in #Pittsburgh, the #ParisOfAppalachia! We can't wait to meet you!
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Bernhard Research @ CMU retweeted
In Nature Machine Intelligence, Faculty member Gabe Gomes @gabepgomes, PhD student Daniil Boiko, and their collaborators propose a new type of molecular ML representation that includes quantum-chemical interaction cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/2025…
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It’s always the happiest and saddest day of the year. Congratulations, Sydney! We’ll miss you, but we’re excited for your journey at @URochesterChem
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Laser is lasing again... fascinating and terrifying that one can buy a laser that cuts things on @amazon for $240.
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Bernhard Research @ CMU retweeted
hey @google @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleAI, congrats on unveiling your AI co-scientist: research.google/blog/acceler…. i am puzzled as for why you would ignore the original AI Coscientist from my @gpggrp published in @Nature on December 2023: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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We're always thrilled when our students share single-origin chocolates from their home countries with us! 🍫 🌍 #GlobalFlavors #SweetConnections
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Bernhard Research @ CMU retweeted
Students suit up during the inaugural undergraduate lab coat ceremony. The event marks their entry into @CMU_Chem as declared majors. Here's to a future of scientific endeavors! 🥼🎉🔬
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Cu-Promoted ipso-Hydroxylation of sp2 Bonds with Concomitant Aromatic 1,2-Rearrangement Involving a Cu-oxyl-hydroxo Species | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102… I guess we are getting good at doing oxidations with Cu, right @GoswamiSunipa ? 😊
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Bernhard Research @ CMU retweeted
Please join us next week on October 9th as we welcome Krishan Raghavachari to give this year's Pople Lecture. Krishnan is a CMU alum and former student of Nobel Prize winner John Pople, who the lecture named for.
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Experiment 3: The forbidden chocolate milk Particle size analysis of chocolate suspended in hexanes #ChemistryOfChocolate
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First lab: Cocoa butter crystallization #ChemistryOfChocolate
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