Submitted my/our (@coreacter.org) ERC Starting Grant app. Will probably tweak it some over the coming days, but I'm done-enough. Are we going to get this grant? Probably not. But that doesn't matter. Very soon, I won't have to think about this again for months. I get to actually do research.

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Paper #3 that was accepted in the past 2 weeks is now online. We looked at the adsorption of polyethylene and polypropylene from simple alkanes on silica and alumina surfaces with neutron reflectivity. Huge difference in the adsorption between silica and alumina pubs.acs.org/langd5/artic...

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Join our faculty! The Department of Chemistry at U of T invites applications for two full-time tenure stream positions in Inorganic, Polymer, and/or Materials Chemistry. To learn more, visit jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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You can go with no exceptions and require strict IUPAC names for all polymers. I am sure that they will like to write poly(oxy-1,4-phenyleneoxy-1,4-phenylenecarbonyl-1,4-phenylene) for PEEK and poly[oxycarbonyloxy-1,4-phenylene(1-methylethylidene)-1,4-phenylene] for PC. 😂

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that was a good one, though!

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