Darren Broom

@darrenbroom.bsky.social

Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social. Hydrogen storage, gas adsorption & reproducibility enthusiast. Salford University alumni, ex-neutron scatterer & adopted Mancunian. Associate Editor, Adsorption. Editorial Board Member, Green Carbon.

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Me and 32 friends have written something for @natrevcleantech.nature.com. There's some #adsorption (including on MOFs), some #catalysis, a bit of #electrochemistry, & lots of #hydrogen storage & metal/complex hydrides. Please have a look if you're interested in such things.

nature.comHydrogen-based materials for energy storage and conversion - Nature Reviews Clean TechnologyHydrogen-based materials could have various applications across energy technologies. This Review discusses the use of these materials in energy storage and in hydrogen storage, transportation and comp...
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“Influence of XC Functional on Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials’ Accuracy” — our group's latest work in JCTC. #chemsky #compchem

Using borosilicate glasses as systems, we look into the influence of DFT functional on the physical properties of condensed matter phases. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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We're all set up in the stunning Museu do Amanhá for the 16th Brazilian Meeting on Adsorption (#EBA2026) in Rio de Janeiro.

If you're here, please come & speak to @darrenbroom.bsky.social or Eduardo Pimenta & his team from LabSolutions Brasil, to learn more about our gas & vapor sorption analyzers!

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It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.

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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” More to follow.

A photo of the Nobel medal
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"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

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#Chemsky

Am actively recruiting graduate students for 2027. Looking for a total of 4-6 students to join the team. Synthetic organic chemistry, molecular biology/cell biology, and biophysics are priorities, but we will consider almost anything in the molecular sciences if it aligns with our work!

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I was about to make this comment, but I see you got there first! Here's the definition from the Cambridge Dictionary: "someone who is not honest, careful, or skilful in their trade or business, or someone who ignores rules that most people obey and is therefore not considered to be responsible"

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