Helms Research Group

@bretthelms.bsky.social over at🦋…

@zlwang_gt 😳

Have you experienced that your are an author of an article that you never wrote, read or even its existence. Today, Prof. Yury Gogotsi and I surprisely found that we have "co-authored" a paper on a journal World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences. We immediately wrote the following letter to the journal editor. Please watch out! Dear Editors, It came to our attention that an AI-fabricated article titled “Influence of Reaction Parameters on the Crystallinity and Aspect Ratio of Lanthanum Nanorods" appeared in your journal with the authorship assigned to us. We have not authored this article and request that you immediately remove it from your website and any connected sites. researchgate.net/profile/Lara-V… Sincerely, Yury Gogotsi and Zhong Lin Wang

@NatureSynthesis Figure 3 Panel b has an incorrect chemical structure for the guanidinium cation

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Xiwang Zhang & co-workers nature.com/articles/s4416… ($) Nanosheet-confined spaces for high-density polymer membrane synthesis by Lie Liu & Xiaoqiang An nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

Collab led by Tom Russell, Xuefei Wu, Han Xue, Zachary Fink, Zhiqin Xia, Nivedina Sarma, Xuchen Gan, John Katsaras, Peter Ercius, Behzad Rad , Paul Ashby, Ahmad Omar, Patrick Collier

Just out in @PNASNews ! We use nanoparticle-surfactants to create droplet interface bilayers with ion-selective nanopores, enabling memristive ionic conduction, size-/charge-selective transport, and neuromorphic plasticity. @doescience @molecularfndry pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@NUChemistry @NorthwesternEng @tedsargentNU_TO @TrienensInst @IINanoNU @WeinbergCollege plastics are already low carbon....it's the scale at which they are made that leads to heaps of carbon

Renewables are cheap—but intermittent. ⚡ @NUChemistry researchers from the Sargent Group built a low-energy electrolyzer that turns waste syngas into ethylene, moving toward low-carbon plastics. 🔗 bit.ly/4kCBG54

End of an era. 20 years from our Brucker

Collab led by Shira Haber, Nicodemo Ciccia, and Zhengxing Peng with Feipeng Yang, Julia Im, Mutian Hua, Sophia Fricke, Raynald Giovine, Cheng Wang, John Hartwig, and Jeffrey Reimer @doescience funded @molecularfndry @UCBerkeley @advlightsource

Just out in @ChemicalScience ! We use NMR relaxometry to explore the microstructure of upcycled HDPE, wherein we find amidyl groups confined to the rigid amorphous phase. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Outstanding collab: Dong-Min Kim, Gan Chen, Michael A. Baird, Livia Pugens Matte, Youngmin Ko, Carson O. Zellmann-Parrotta, Jiwoong Bae, Zhaoyang Chen, Yan Yao, Mary C. Scott, Ying Chen @molecularfndry @BerkeleyLab @PNNLab @UHouston @UCBerkeley

Just out in @ACSEnergyLett ! We showcase thermoformable organo ionic conductors with high Na+ conductivity in solid-state sodium metal batteries with organic cathodes. @energystoragera @doescience pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@JoshuaSchrier @theNASciences For a second, I thought they were reporting on a public release of alcohol at sea, akin to the boston tea party

@theNASciences They appropriately send the announcement... so early in the morning 🎶🤣

I’m pleased that @theNASciences is finally addressing the age old question: What do you do with a drunken sailor? 🎶 🍻⛵️ 🤣 nationalacademies.org/projects/DBASS…

@maiti_iitb Very nice work

Nitrobenzenes to pyridines via N-atom insertion and selective carbon deletion (C5 or ipso-C). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AS8BW3AU…

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/s4428…

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-biositing-t…

@EmoryChanNano @NatComputSci @SamMBlau Live for the drama

For a more digestible summary of our recent @NatComputSci article, here's the research brief that @SamMBlau and I wrote... complete with a #BehindThePaper tidbit that thankfully has less drama than a VH1 Behind the Music episode (rdcu.be link is free)

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

Just out in Materials Chemistry Frontiers! @RoySocChem We explore intercalation phenomena in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites featuring discrete free volume elements. Kevin Whitham, Jisook Hong, Guangzhao Chen, and Liang Tan. @CHiPPS_EFRC @molecularfndry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Precision patterning at the nanoscale is critical to advancing the manufacturing of microelectronic devices. Here, we provide a perspective, spanning conventional and hyper-NA EUV lithography. @CHiPPS_EFRC @molecularfndry @BerkeleyLab spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-pro…

Exciting opportunity to join @BerkeleyLab @molecularfndry as a Scientific Engineering Associate, focusing on automation and self-driving labs. Link below: lbl.taleo.net/careersection/…

@NatChemEng only three research articles?

🎉 Our November issue is now live! This month we cover automated programmable protein evolution, operation of reverse-bias bipolar membrane-based CO2 electrolyzers, plasma catalysis for hydrogen production, and more! Read the issue here: nature.com/natchemeng/vol…