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Daryl Yee

@dryeeseeks.bsky.social
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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 · 20/09/2026
What an amazing experience!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
4th year teaching this undergrad course on polymer science and I can now crack lame jokes. Today, I said something like: much like French, polymer nomenclature is confusing because there a lot of exceptions in how we name things. Crickets. Probably not wise to say that to French speakers..
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Majulah Singapura A mundane scene from the place I’m still most comfortable in.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
First conference in Asia!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Check out our new review on printing nanoscale metals, alloys, and metal oxides!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’s been a hot minute ♾️
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The new Amtraks are a little smaller than I remember
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Soooo.. smell wise, how bad are isocyanides compared to thiols? Asking for a friend.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One of the things I miss most about the US is the food.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The third generation of our polymer-to-metal process. I’m so excited for this!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
To the surprise of nobody who actually is familiar with plastics recycling.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We have a PhD position available in my group! If you know any talented students looking for a PhD in Switzerland, please send them my way! #chemsky #matsky Details can be found here: careers.epfl.ch/job/Neuch%C3...
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PhD in developing new crosslinking strategies in 3D printing
PhD in developing new crosslinking strategies in 3D printing
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yay. More enshittification
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My students have found a new use of AI.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New toy in the lab!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our collaborative work with @carlosmportela.bsky.social is now out in Matter! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Tldr: we made magnetic composite microdevices by growing magnetic particles within two-photon lithography printed polymer parts!
sciencedirect.com
Magnetically responsive microprintable soft nanocomposites with tunable nanoparticle loading
Magnetic remote actuation of soft materials is attractive for applications such as transforming materials and medical robots. However, due to manufact…
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
One of the more unusual Benchy we've printed recently.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Spring in CH
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New preprint from the group! tldr: We explore the thermomechanical properties of semicrystalline poly(cyclooctene) (pCOE) 3D printed via photoROMP! 1/4 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
chemrxiv.org
Vat photopolymerization of semicrystalline thermoplastics via photoinitiated ring opening metathesis polymerization | ChemRxiv
Vat photopolymerization (VP) is one of the most powerful tools today for the fabrication of complex materials. However, despite the variety of materials compatible with VP today, the fabrication of thermoplastics still remains a challenge. In this work, ...
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Took a little bit of time but I finally got my first big grant! Some observations: 1. My eval panel was chemistry which was quite unexpected. It's usually engineering. 2. Not a single "PI is too young to lead a project" comment. I guess getting some corresponding author papers out did the trick.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"For some perspective, the average first 105-degree day of the year normally occurs on May 22nd,” NWS said in a statement."
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Such creative work!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Had to do a double take when I saw the lunch menu for tomorrow. Mmhm. Tarte Choléra.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Receiving academic emails with good (ish) news is always a game of "is this real" or "am I being phished?"
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The MSCA postdoc fellowship funding scores this year are absolutely brutal. Funding thresholds for some disciplines are as high as 97%! It’s almost a lottery at this point
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
George Rossman was one of the kindest professors I knew during my time at Caltech. Incredible scientist with an infectious passion for science. I have fond memories of him showing me his collection of rocks and metals that he kept in his office. RIP www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...
caltech.edu
Caltech Mourns the Passing of George Rossman (1944–2026)
Caltech mineralogist George Rossman (PhD '71) passed away on February 6, 2026.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
And we made the cover! This is a real optical image of copper dendrites growing into our hydrogels during our in-situ precipitation process.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Me when an older European person asks me where in China is Singapore 😅
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 30/12/2025
Proof
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
So so cool
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I write grants so my students can print unicorns
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Lac Neuchâtel
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Our picture "Eye Spy" made it to the Chempics bracket! Lots of other beautiful pictures on display as well. Go check them out! #chemsky #matsky cen.acs.org/education/sc...
cen.acs.org
Our first-ever Chempics Bracket is here. Vote for your favorite science photo
Only one photo will emerge victorious
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Testing out some new printing technology :D
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Looks like my early setbacks have been for naught 😬😅
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It’s fondue season up in here
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Test print of our new nano/micro-scale printer!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Saw the swiss alps with a colleague yesterday ✈️
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It’s here! (Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just saw this on my computer. I didn't think I worked this hard 😅
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Day off
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Lots of cool research being done at EPFL MatSci!
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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-...
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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.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Beautiful science in a beautiful location.
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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…
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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
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Hydrogel‐Based Vat Photopolymerization of Ceramics and Metals with Low Shrinkages via Repeated Infusion Precipitation
This work introduces an in situ precipitation strategy for the hydrogel-based vat photopolymerization of architected ceramics and metals with reduced shrinkages and improved densities. Repeated infus...
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