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Alex Blokhuis

@alexblokhuis.bsky.social
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Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow, systems #chemistry, complexity, nonequilibrium thermodynamics at Hermanslab, IMDEA Nanociencia. #chemsky Chemistry content creator 🔬: linktr.ee/alexblokhuis

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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our new paper 📑 about fundamentals of oscillating chemical reactions was published today ⚗️🧪 Stoichiometric recipes for periodic oscillations in reaction networks. Alex Blokhuis, Peter Stadler, Nicola Vassena. Proc. A (2026) 482 (2340): 20250886 doi.org/10.1098/rspa...
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Had a lot of fun participating in this one 🧪⚗️📝🧮, the preprint is out now!
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Cool! 🧪⚗️
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
SnCl2, KI 🧪⚗️🔬💎 #chemsky #stem #chemistry #science #microscope
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Babis Pappas @pappasgroup.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thank you very much @gomobel.bsky.social for highliting our work on @chemistryworld.com. Chiral acyl phosphates meet self-assembly..! Thanks also @claudiabonfio.bsky.social and @jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social for the very nice comments about our work!!
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ARN Seminar @arnseminar.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#autocatalysis #chemsky 🧪⚗️
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Have you ever wanted to use computer vision to speed up your materials research, but weren’t sure where to start? High-throughput synthesis can generate huge libraries of new materials. However, characterization often lags behind, becoming the real bottleneck in discovery. [1/6]
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Our new preprint 📑 about oscillating chemical reactions ⚗ just came out! arxiv.org/abs/2508.15273 We introduce tools 🛠️ that expand the scope of oscillators that can be analyzed, and use them to extract a lot of new qualitative and quantitative insights about oscillating chemical reactions! 1/3
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Stoichiometric recipes for periodic oscillations in reaction networks
Oscillatory chemical reactions are functional components in a variety of biological contexts. In chemistry, the construction and identification of even rudimentary oscillators remain elusive and lack ...
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I just found that geckos🦎 don't rely (if not for an estimated 0.1%) on #VanderWaals interactions for their grip, but on 'contact electrification'... and that leaves me disappointed and thrilled at the same time 😶 #ChemSky
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Role of contact electrification and electrostatic interactions in gecko adhesion | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Geckos, which are capable of walking on walls and hanging from ceilings with the help of micro-/nano-scale hierarchical fibrils (setae) on their toe pads, have become the main prototype in the design ...
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ARN Seminar @arnseminar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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ARN Seminar @arnseminar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
CuSO4, KSCN 🧫⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #Systemschemistry #Science #STEM #Chemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
CoCl2, K3Fe(CN)6 🧫🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #chemistry #science
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
CuCl2, K3[Fe(CN)6] 🧫⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #science #chemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Ho, SnCl2 🔬⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #science #chemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
FeCl3, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #systemschemistry #chemistry #STEM #science
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Oliver Steinbock @osteinbock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We can determine the composition and concentration of solutions from photos of dried drops! Our latest paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org describes how RODI 🤖 collects a 23,500-image library and ML/AI performs analyses doi.org/10.1039/D4DD...
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is some fun chemistry 🧪⚗️ #chemsky
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
CuCl2, Fe 🧫🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #chemsky #chemistry #systemschemistry #STEM #science
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Zn, SnCl2 🔬🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #STEM #systemschemistry #chemistry #science
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
CuCl2, Na2S2O5 🧫🧪⚗️ #Realtimechem #chemsky #STEM #gel #reaction-diffusion #science #systemschemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Cool 🔥
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Speculations about hypothetical new elements in spectra from the sun. 🧪⚗️ 📕 Introduction à la chimie générale (1919) by H.Copaux Today, "coronium" is interpreted as Fe13+, i.e. iron ionized thirteen times. #chemsky #chemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
CuBr2, K2C2O4 🔬🧪 #chemsky #RealTimeChem #Chemistry #STEM
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CuSO4, CoCl2, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #chemistry #gel #science #reaction-diffusion #systemschemistry
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Zwicker Group @zwickergroup.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We wrote a review on the "Physics of droplet regulation in biological cells": arxiv.org/abs/2501.13639 Beside the basic #physics of phase separation, we discuss three aspects that separate cellular from traditional droplets:
A schematic picture of a cell, showing condensates, a nucleus and the cytoskeleton.
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CoCl2, CuSO4, Na3PO4 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #chemistry #gel #science #systemschemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
CoCl2, Na3PO4 🧫🧪⚗️ #Chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #Chemistry #Science #Reaction-Diffusion #Systemschemistry
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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
CoCl2, NaOH 🧫🧪 #Chemsky #STEM #Chemistry #reactiondiffusion #RealTimeChem #science #systemschemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
CrCl3, Na2S2O3 🧫 🧪 #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #science #gel #reactiondiffusion #RealTimeChem
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Yannick Geiger @yannickgeiger.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hello #ChemSky! New year, new lab, and now also with a new website: systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr Check out for what @guillemonreals.bsky.social and myself are up to in the Laboratory of Systems Chemistry 😀
systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr
Systems chemistry lab – Website of the Laboratory of Systems Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
CuSO4, NaOH 🧪🧫💎 #Chemistry #RealTimeChem #STEM #science #gel #chimie
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"quelques chimistes ont supposé les acides munis de pointes" 🧪👅🪡 📕: Élémens de Chimie, tome I (1790), Chaptal #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #science #chimie
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Yannick Geiger @yannickgeiger.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
So glad this is out, congrats @alexblokhuis.bsky.social! Dimensionality analysis is going to be an unavoidable tool in mechanistic investigations of (presumably) complex chemical systems 🔥
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Our companion paper was published for Christmas! ⛄🎄🧪, pdf: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... We illustrate new tools we developed exploiting dimensional information in reaction monitoring data, opening up new ways of doing kinetic and mechanistic studies. #chemsky #chemistry
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Case studies of dimensionality in chemical data
The ambition to relate intrinsic features of chemical data to the underlying chemical reaction networks (CRNs) is not new, but has experienced only modest success. This may partly be attributed to a ...
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Le débat explosif sur la respirabilité de H2 🫁💥🧪 dans Élémens de Chimie tome I (1790) par Chaptal #chemsky #chemistry #chimie #RealTimeChem #science #STEM
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Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi there: we're happy to be on BlueSky now, too! Stay tuned as we're getting set up here for the #ChemSky community - more to follow soon!
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Oliver Maguire @oliver-maguire.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨 #PhD opportunity in Systems Chemistry!🚨 Please Share! Interested in creating new decision-making materials based on electrochemically programmable protein networks? Fully funded 4-year PhD supported by #ERC at @uobchemistry.bsky.social for UK-home student. Check out link for details: #chemsky
findaphd.com
Electrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Electrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The next session of the #autocatalysis seminar will be this thursday, 9AM CET, with Shesha Srinivas and Shuntaro Amano. For more information and to sign up see: researchseminars.org/seminar/Auto...
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researchseminars.org - View series
Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences!
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
TIL: The Oregonator was a product of boredom 🧪 #chemsky #chemistry #oscillations #oscillatingreactions #systemschemistry #science #STEM #RealTimeChemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Affinités: thermodynamique chimique avant la lettre 🧪. Passage dans Élémens de chimie tome I par M.J.A. Chaptal (1790) #chemsky #chimie #chemistry #science #thermodynamics #STEM
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
K3Fe(CN)6, Na2S2O5 ⚗️🔬🧪💎 a persistent snow globe ☃️ #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #systemschemistry #snow #science #xmas #RealTimeChemistry
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NH4Cl, RhCl3 💎🧪🔬⚗️ #chemsky #STEM #chemistry #science #RealTimeChem
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The next session of the #autocatalysis seminar will be this thursday, 9AM CET, with Victor Blanco and Kunihiko Kaneko. For more information and to sign up see: researchseminars.org/seminar/Auto...
researchseminars.org
researchseminars.org - View series
Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences!
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Normale Sup @normalesup.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📣 🦋 Normale Sup rejoint aujourd'hui officiellement BlueSky. Retrouvez ici l'actualité du campus, de la #recherche, et des enseignements ! 🎓 On vous attend nombreux.ses. Suivez-nous ! #HelloESR #ESR
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
TbCl3, CoCl2 🔬🧪💎⚗️ #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #RealTimeChem
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Ed Sherer @hartreefocker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Helium Remembrance Day to all who celebrate! #NMRChat #ChemSky
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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
HgCl2, Cation exchange resin (H+ form) #Chemsky #Chemistry #STEM #Deliquescent #RealTimeChem
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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added! tinyurl.com/ChemSkyStart... #ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪
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Bluesky Chem Starter Packs
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