Astrochem Coffee

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Sommer Johansen and Gabi Wenzel.Sommer's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00120Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer)19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte20:58 - Grab & Go Papers35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone Autumn Parasol36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets1:16:55 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.The History of Amino Acid detections in comets in this month's Percolator.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke with special guest Samantha Scibelli.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:48 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilsa)20:10 - Advert: Starducks Sweet Potato Hand Pies21:26 - Grab & Go Papers34:20 - Advert: LeafCrusher 300035:55 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Samantha Scibelli)55:40 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites1:01:30 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

It's our 1 year anniversary, and of course our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Thanja Lamberts, and Alex Byrne with special guests Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, Vincent Esposito, and Valentine Wakelam.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:39 - Coffee Chat (Thanja with Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, and Vincent Esposito)20:19 - Advert: SipTek Fire & Ice Tumbler21:44 - Grab & Go Papers34:05 - Advert: Starducks Caprese Panini35:23 - Single-Origin Brew (Alex with Valentine Wakelam)53:27 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites59:49 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Ilsa Cooke, and Alex Byrne with special guests Jessica Perrero, Divita Gupta, and Théo Guillame. Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Jessica's Paper: Binding energies of ethanol and ethylamine on interstellar water ices: synergy between theory and experiments https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16952Chemical Kinetics Papers from Divita and Théo: Product-specific reaction kinetics in continuous uniform supersonic flows probed by chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopyhttps://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/160/20/204201/3295294/Product-specific-reaction-kinetics-in-continuousDesign and Implementation of a New Apparatus for Astrochemistry: Kinetic Measurements of the CH + OCS Reaction and Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in a Cold Uniform Supersonic Flowhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18814The History of Cavity-Enhanced Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy in this month's Percolator and Barista Bootcamp.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.Interstitial clips feature audio from the French Chef.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Albert Rimola and Will Styers. Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Albert's Quantum Grain Website: https://www.quantumgrain.eu/Will's Paper on 3-Furonitrile: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c03093 The History of Cosmic Rays in this month's Percolator.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.Special thanks this month to David Neufeld for the impetus to look into the history of cosmic rays.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Rebecca Firth and Harshal Gupta. Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Rebecca's Paper on AlO, AlOH, and Al(OH)3: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00335Harshal's paper on the laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical discovery of CaC2: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3336  Barista Bootcamp on Cosmic Rays this month!Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. Interstitial clips feature audio from the movie Thor and from the French Chef.