New publication:
"Selective Electrochemical Defluorinative Hydroxymethylation toward Difluoro-Substituted Alcohol Building Blocks"
Remember those CF₃ groups people put on their molecules to modify electron densities on aromatic rings? Now you can make alcohols out of them later.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c01339
#Chemistry #science #academia #electrochemistry #openaccess
It's hard to pull Mg out of seawater, and we know that minerals with it, like dolomite, form along a redox profile. But why?
We decided to look at it a bit differently - with electrochemistry!
What we think is going on is a process called “proton-driven cation pumping,” which pulls out the Mg and pushes it (and Ca) into the mineral phase, driven by the electrical potential gradient.
Lab Notebook Entry #18
Designed static frames for flooded cells, started first all-Fe test, Zn-I dev kit probably needs to be remade
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-18/
#academia #OpenScience #Quarto #batteries #EnergyStorage #energy #science #electrochemistry #OpenSource #OpenSourceHardware
Lab Notebook Entry #17
Another Zn-I test, started off cycling too aggressively and formed iodine it seems
https://dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook-17/
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🏆 Congratulations to Rivin George, who has received the Best Poster in Science Award at the Open Doctoral Days 2026 (@ujiuniversitat).
🔬 His poster presentation, titled “𝗚𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗼𝘀𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗚𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗰𝗶𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻”, was recognised for its scientific quality and contribution in the field of sustainable chemical processes.
Congratulations, Rivin! 👏
#INAM #SomUJI #CiènciaUJI #OpenDoctoralDays #Research #Sustainability #Electrochemistry
The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Implications and applications of local pH in #electrocatalysis” with Samuel S. Veroneau, University of Pennsylvania 🇺🇸, is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal @TIB_AVPortal of the @tibhannover.
Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71526-5
#HackerNews #electrochemistry #coffee #quality #cyclicvoltammetry #research #science
Coffee flavor is primarily determined by the bean roast color and concentration of the beverage. Here, the authors show that both of these characteristics are reflected in the coffee’s cyclic voltammogram. This approach enables rapid determination of the strength and roast intensity of the coffee.
🎓 Jose Solera Rojas has successfully defended his PhD thesis on electrochemical hydrogenation of biomass-derived compounds for sustainable chemical production.
👏 Congratulations on this great achievement!
Robert Karas (Rowow)
Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka
Kevin Breitwieser
Dr. Or M. Bialik
Kirk Smith, PhD
INAM UJI
Beilstein-Institut
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