Daryl Yee
@dryeeseeks.bsky.social
Assistant Professor EPFL | Laboratory for the Chemistry of Materials and Manufacturing | 🇸🇬 | random thoughts about science,🥏, OP👒, and life in🇨🇭
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Daryl Yee
@dryeeseeks.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Here's my first go at bringing together everyone who does polymers + 3D printing!
Polymer chemistry, rheology, characterization, devices, etc. All are welcome!
Let me know if you want to be added to it
#chemsky
Polymer chemistry, rheology, characterization, devices, etc. All are welcome!
Let me know if you want to be added to it
#chemsky
Looks like my early setbacks have been for naught 😬😅
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Looks like my early setbacks have been for naught 😬😅
It’s fondue season up in here
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s fondue season up in here
Test print of our new nano/micro-scale printer!
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Test print of our new nano/micro-scale printer!
Saw the swiss alps with a colleague yesterday ✈️
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Saw the swiss alps with a colleague yesterday ✈️
It’s here!
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s here!
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
Just saw this on my computer. I didn't think I worked this hard 😅
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just saw this on my computer. I didn't think I worked this hard 😅
Lots of cool research being done at EPFL MatSci!
Are you or do you know a smart, motivated Master student in a materials-adjacent area interested in doing a research project at EPFL? The @materials-epfl.bsky.social MX Fellowship applications open today sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello.... Choose a lab, send your file, and spend up to six months at EPFL!
October 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Lots of cool research being done at EPFL MatSci!
One of the pictures that we took as part of our recent Adv. Mater. study got featured in @cenmag.bsky.social Chemistry in Pictures!
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
Chemistry in Pictures: Eye spy
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
cen.acs.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One of the pictures that we took as part of our recent Adv. Mater. study got featured in @cenmag.bsky.social Chemistry in Pictures!
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
Beautiful science in a beautiful location.
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Beautiful science in a beautiful location.
Woke up to an announcement saying that we’ll be landing in Bilbao shortly.
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
October 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Woke up to an announcement saying that we’ll be landing in Bilbao shortly.
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Andddd it's now out in Advanced Materials!
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Andddd it's now out in Advanced Materials!
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
It's 2025, almost 2026. If you're gonna use chatgpt to write your entire research statement, at least make sure the references are not 100% fake.
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It's 2025, almost 2026. If you're gonna use chatgpt to write your entire research statement, at least make sure the references are not 100% fake.
We have some new positions available in the group! (PhD student + Research intern)
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Laboratory Openings / Join the Group!
PhD/Postdoc Openings Update: 12/09/2025 There is one fully-funded PhD opening in the group in the area of microstructure control during vat photopolymerization or on the fundamentals of crosslinking. ...
www.epfl.ch
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We have some new positions available in the group! (PhD student + Research intern)
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
What a beautiful location!
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What a beautiful location!
Sigh.
AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it.
Commentary in @natnano.nature.com
#nanotechnology
Commentary in @natnano.nature.com
#nanotechnology
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sigh.
Trying to go to more European conferences = first time in Poland in over 10 years!
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Trying to go to more European conferences = first time in Poland in over 10 years!
It took 6 months of review but this paper is finally accepted 😮💨🫡
It has changed / expanded so much since our first submission. Really excited to to show what we’ve done!
It has changed / expanded so much since our first submission. Really excited to to show what we’ve done!
Just submitted the second paper of my group! Really proud of this one. Here's a teaser: we developed a process that allowed us to convert hydrogels into ceramics and metals with reduced shrinkages and improved densities!
Prev tech: Shrinkage ~60%, density ~40%
New tech: Shrinkage ~40%, density ~90%
Prev tech: Shrinkage ~60%, density ~40%
New tech: Shrinkage ~40%, density ~90%
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It took 6 months of review but this paper is finally accepted 😮💨🫡
It has changed / expanded so much since our first submission. Really excited to to show what we’ve done!
It has changed / expanded so much since our first submission. Really excited to to show what we’ve done!
I felt this in my soul.
Why I hate doing paper revisions.
A rant of an academic who is also a journal editor
#Chemsky #AcademicChatter #Ozchem
/1 of many
#fedup #weneedtodobetter #fixscience
A rant of an academic who is also a journal editor
#Chemsky #AcademicChatter #Ozchem
/1 of many
#fedup #weneedtodobetter #fixscience
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I felt this in my soul.
Engineering: When you need to stir something that is less dense than your solvent.
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Engineering: When you need to stir something that is less dense than your solvent.
Hot days (>30C) without AC
We are so back
We are so back
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hot days (>30C) without AC
We are so back
We are so back
Guess we ran out of balloons
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Guess we ran out of balloons
60 years of independence!
Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬
Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬
August 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
60 years of independence!
Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬
Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬
Love me some annealing twins
August 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Love me some annealing twins