Not entirely sure what it is we'll be consuming at my department's coffee break, but I'm all in.
#AIforthewin

Spreek je moerstaal! 🫠

Nexus Conference 2025: Mike Pence attending. Interesting to see how his bio seems to gloss over that a major highlight of his life was being a christian fascist who enabled Trump and the misery and suffering that came out of that.
@nexusinstituut.bsky.social

Got the chance to read some great books over the summer
The emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
The pursuit of love - Nancy Mitford
Sunset Park - Paul Auster

#chemistswhoread

Hoi @nu.nl, ik heb jullie kop even verbeterd, ik hoop dat dat ok is 🙂
@woinactie.bsky.social @minocw.bsky.social

Today TUDelft was on strike, to protest the enormous and repeated budget cuts to education and academic research!

Thank you @lisawesterveld.bsky.social for supporting us!

@tudelfttnw.bsky.social @aob.nl @fnv.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social

Polymers can help to enhance radiation effects:
Alkyl Chloride-Functionalized Polymers Mediate Oxidation of
Thioethers Initiated by Ionizing Radiation

out today in ACS Applied Polymer Materials
#OpenAccess #HealthChemEDelft

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
(I raise you 4 from 4 different bands)

The "to" is doing some pretty heavy lifting in #7

Large amine substituents destabilize the urea, leading to a dynamic equilibrium with the amine and isocyanate. At that point, at urea can be used as a dynamic covalent bond. This has found application in self-healing materials and many other areas.

#chemsky

These chemical reaction cycles can take off from very small amounts of thiol signal, and over a large range in concentration. Disulfide-crosslinked polymer hydrogels can respond to these #CRNs by disintegrating. That even works by cutting them (generating thiols or radicals)!

We developed caged phosphines based on recently developed reversible beta-substituted Michael acceptors (Feature: doi.org/10.1039/D3CC02…). Thiols can release phosphines, which can reduce disulfide, releasing more thiol, → more phosphine,⟳⟳… well, you get the point

Feature Article out now: Highlighting the advances we have made applying β’-substituted Michael acceptors in Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs). Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#EUfunded #MSCA #creanet_ITN

Thread by main author Benjamin Spitzbarth