Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Our 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... 0114
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Had a lot of fun participating in this one 🧪⚗️📝🧮, the preprint is out now! 130
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025SnCl2, KI 🧪⚗️🔬💎 #chemsky #stem #chemistry #science #microscope 050
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisBabis Pappas @pappasgroup.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Thank 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!! 092
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisARN Seminar @arnseminar.bsky.social · 01/10/2025#autocatalysis #chemsky 🧪⚗️ 031
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisThe Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Have 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] 152
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Our 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! 1/3arxiv.orgStoichiometric recipes for periodic oscillations in reaction networksOscillatory 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 ... 293
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisStefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I 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 😶 #ChemSkyroyalsocietypublishing.orgRole of contact electrification and electrostatic interactions in gecko adhesion | Journal of The Royal Society InterfaceGeckos, 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 ... 372
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025CuSO4, KSCN 🧫⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #Systemschemistry #Science #STEM #Chemistry 193
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025CoCl2, K3Fe(CN)6 🧫🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #chemistry #science 063
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025CuCl2, K3[Fe(CN)6] 🧫⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #science #chemistry 030
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Ho, SnCl2 🔬⚗️🧪 #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #systemschemistry #STEM #science #chemistry 032
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025FeCl3, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #systemschemistry #chemistry #STEM #science 031
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisOliver Steinbock @osteinbock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025We 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... 172
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025CuCl2, Fe 🧫🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #chemsky #chemistry #systemschemistry #STEM #science 081
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Zn, SnCl2 🔬🧪⚗️ #RealTimeChem #Chemsky #STEM #systemschemistry #chemistry #science 031
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025CuCl2, Na2S2O5 🧫🧪⚗️ #Realtimechem #chemsky #STEM #gel #reaction-diffusion #science #systemschemistry 061
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Speculations 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 240
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025CuBr2, K2C2O4 🔬🧪 #chemsky #RealTimeChem #Chemistry #STEM 000
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025CuSO4, CoCl2, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #chemistry #gel #science #reaction-diffusion #systemschemistry 021
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisZwicker Group @zwickergroup.bsky.social · 24/01/2025We 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: 16515
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025CoCl2, CuSO4, Na3PO4 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #chemistry #gel #science #systemschemistry 071
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025CoCl2, Na3PO4 🧫🧪⚗️ #Chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #Chemistry #Science #Reaction-Diffusion #Systemschemistry 2242
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisDave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Peng-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😀 710136
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025CoCl2, NaOH 🧫🧪 #Chemsky #STEM #Chemistry #reactiondiffusion #RealTimeChem #science #systemschemistry 030
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025CrCl3, Na2S2O3 🧫 🧪 #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #science #gel #reactiondiffusion #RealTimeChem 031
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisYannick Geiger @yannickgeiger.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Hello #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.frSystems chemistry lab – Website of the Laboratory of Systems Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg 053
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025CuSO4, NaOH 🧪🧫💎 #Chemistry #RealTimeChem #STEM #science #gel #chimie 041
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 030
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisYannick Geiger @yannickgeiger.bsky.social · 26/12/2024So 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 🔥 172
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Our 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 #chemistrychemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.comCase studies of dimensionality in chemical dataThe 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 ... 2233
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Le débat explosif sur la respirabilité de H2 🫁💥🧪 dans Élémens de Chimie tome I (1790) par Chaptal #chemsky #chemistry #chimie #RealTimeChem #science #STEM 030
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisAngewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Hi 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! 1321443
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisOliver 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: #chemskyfindaphd.comElectrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Electrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com 11914
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The 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...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View series Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 051
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024TIL: The Oregonator was a product of boredom 🧪 #chemsky #chemistry #oscillations #oscillatingreactions #systemschemistry #science #STEM #RealTimeChemistry 010
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Affinités: thermodynamique chimique avant la lettre 🧪. Passage dans Élémens de chimie tome I par M.J.A. Chaptal (1790) #chemsky #chimie #chemistry #science #thermodynamics #STEM 010
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024K3Fe(CN)6, Na2S2O5 ⚗️🔬🧪💎 a persistent snow globe ☃️ #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #systemschemistry #snow #science #xmas #RealTimeChemistry 052
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024NH4Cl, RhCl3 💎🧪🔬⚗️ #chemsky #STEM #chemistry #science #RealTimeChem 060
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The 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.orgresearchseminars.org - View series Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 050
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisNormale 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 06019
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024TbCl3, CoCl2 🔬🧪💎⚗️ #chemsky #chemistry #STEM #RealTimeChem 081
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisEd Sherer @hartreefocker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Happy Helium Remembrance Day to all who celebrate! #NMRChat #ChemSky 49423
Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024HgCl2, Cation exchange resin (H+ form) #Chemsky #Chemistry #STEM #Deliquescent #RealTimeChem 0103
Reposted by Alex BlokhuisEllis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Did 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 🧪tinyurl.comBluesky Chem Starter Packs 2217075