Archive for February, 2025

Finding and Discovery Aids as part of data availability statements for research articles.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025

Starting around 2016, journal publishers started including mandatory “Data Availability” statements as part of research articles; a typical (dated) example is linked here, including guidelines for how to cite the data itself. I wrote about these aspects last year in a blog post for the RSC journal Digital Discovery[cite]10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-dz2dv[/cite] and here I follow up with more news.

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Au-pseudocarbyne – a unusual example of a twelve coordination by carbon.

Saturday, February 1st, 2025

Derek Lowe tells the story of “carbyne”, a potential further allotrope of carbon, comprising linear chains of carbon atoms, C-C≡C-C≡C-C. Whether such a molecule can exist on its own has long been the the topic of speculation. Now a report has appeared of a “pseudocarbyne”, stabilised by gold atoms.[cite]10.1038/s41598-024-80359-5[/cite]

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