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Hennie Valkenier

@hennievalkenier.bsky.social
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Supramolecular Chemist in Brussels, transporting ions across membranes using synthetic compounds.

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📣 PostDoc opportunity in Brussels 🇧🇪 Are you an expert in analytical electrochemistry ? ➡️ Join our team to help develop ELECTRODES for PHOSPHATE SENSING : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/438455 (application deadline 1/07/2026) #ChemSky
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Electrochemistry for Supramolecular Sensing
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Aaron Torres Huerta @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are excited to share our latest paper, now accepted in Cell Reports Physical Science! www.cell.com/cell-reports... 💡 Liposome-based nanoreactors 🎯 Controlled Tb3+/Eu3+ composition 🌈 Full RGB emission tuning @hennievalkenier.bsky.social @miriamvelasquez.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social
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Color-tunable luminescent TbxEuy(BDC) complexes assembled within liposome-based nanoreactors
Aaron Torres-Huerta et al. develop liposome nanoreactors that assemble multimetallic lanthanide complexes inside attoliter compartments. Real-time photoluminescence monitoring reveals distinct Tb3+ an...
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Happy to share our story on anion transport by amide-based macrocycles and isophthalamides, which is now published in EurJOC: doi.org/10.1002/ejoc... Thanks to @claudiacalta.bsky.social and @stevejbutler.bsky.social for collaborations in the context of @lucescostaction.bsky.social #ChemSky
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Transmembrane Transport Activity and Selectivity of Amide‐Based Macrocyclic Anion Receptors of Different Sizes
Amide-based macrocycles of varying sizes and acyclic bis-amides were synthesised and tested for Cl– transmembrane transport activity and selectivity versus OH–, NO3–, and HCO3–. Pre-organised and sma...
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Studying the copper distribution in cancer cells with Giulia Veronesi at beam line ID21 @esrf.fr in Grenoble: a really exciting place for science and very cool to see the impact of our synthetic copper ionophores! @lucescostaction.bsky.social #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM
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Cédric Colomban @ccolomban.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are very happy to organize the 2026 Supramolecular Chemistry Days of the French Chemical Society [JCS-2026] in Marseille on May 28–29. For more information, please check: → @jcs-2026.bsky.social (Bluesky) → jcs2026.sciencesconf.org (website) We hope to meet you soon in Marseille !
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Journées de Chimie Supramoléculaire 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
4eme Journée de Chimie Supramoléculaire JCS-2026
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We're proud to share the first Cu(I) ionophores that transport Cu(I) cations selectively and that are active in cells! Read our story in JACS: doi.org/10.1021/jacs... Thanks a lot to all colleagues and students from @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social involved in this effort 🎉
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busschaert-group.bsky.social @busschaert-group.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
An idea I had during my PhD has finally come to fruition with the help of @hennievalkenier.bsky.social . Transporting cAMP and AMP across lipid bilateral using synthetic small molecules, now out in Angewandte onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Transmembrane Transport of cAMP and AMP Using a Two Component Small Molecule Transport System
Transmembrane transport of the nucleotides cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate) and AMP (adenosine monophosphate) is challenging, but can be achieved using a two-component system consisting of a syn...
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Want to know more about anion transport across membranes? Make sure to read the Concept Article “The Lucigenin Assay: Measuring Anion Transport in Lipid Vesicles” by Vladimír Šindelář, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social et al. in #AnalysisSensing: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣Job opportunities in Brussels from Jan 2026 🇧🇪 Join our team to help develop new ANION RECEPTORS for phosphate and other oxoanions ➡️ Sensing and transmembrane transport for Environment & Health applications. PhD students: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383323, PostDoc: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383310
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Many great scientists are currently present at the 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry in Brussels. It was a pleasure to listen to the discussions on the advances and future of Chemical Complexity and Emerging Synthetic Methodologies. #SolvayInstitutes #chemsky
Participants in the 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry in Brussels.
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky
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Aaron Torres Huerta @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. @hennievalkenier.bsky.social. Now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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Spatiotemporal Control of the Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome‐Based Nanoreactors
Synthetic ion transporters enable precise control over carboxylate transport across liposome membranes that are preloaded with Ln3+ ions. This process triggers the spatiotemporal formation of lumines...
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Miriam de Jesus Velasquez-Hernandez @miriamvelasquez.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉@ERC_Research Grateful to all who made this possible: @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social, Rob Ameloot, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Inspired by Amar Flood's cyanostars, former PhD student Lau Halgreen designed these small cyanostilbene compounds. Anurag Singh took over and found them to be great synthetic chloride transporters. Also a big thanks to the other contributors. Read the story in Chem. Eur. J. doi.org/10.1002/chem...
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Cyanostilbenes as Selective Chloride Carriers Relying on CH‐anion Interactions
This manuscript presents a series of eight small compounds based on the α-cyanostilbene motif and with different substituents. Three of these compounds show good rates of chloride transport, as well ...
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🎉Congratulations to Dr Matus Chvojka👨‍🎓 for passing his PhD defence (co-supervised by Vladimir Sindelar at Masaryk University) and for winning the 2nd Jean-Marie Lehn prize (awarded by the French embassy in Prague and IOCB Tech Foundation for excellent Czech and Slovak Chemistry PhD students) #Chemsky
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ISMSC2026 conference @ismsc2026.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out... ...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thank you very much to all speakers, co-organisers, and participants of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels for the 3 days of great discussions! And thanks a lot to the International Solvay Institutes for allowing us to organise this workshop.
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
After a great first day of scientific discussions, we're getting ready for day 2 of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels.
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Read all about the anion transport by bambusuril macrocycles in our new OBC paper. Years of hard work by Matus Chvojka and with Vladimir Sindelar have led to this story that explores 8 types of fluorinated substituents, leading to very different anion transport rates. doi.org/10.1039/D5OB...
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We were happy to learn that our article about the Lucigenin assay to study anion transport in liposomes (doi.org/10.1002/anse...) is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023 in Analysis&Sensing from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. #TopCitedArticle
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The International Solvay Institutes are hosting an interdisciplinary discussion workshop on the "The Interplay between Molecules and Membranes" from 28-30 April 2025 in Brussels. We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Read all about the transport of inorganic phosphate and phosphate esters by synthetic anion receptors in our article in ChemistryEurope (#OpenAccess @chemistryeurope.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ceur... 🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.
Structural Requirements of Synthetic Anionophores for Inorganic Phosphate and Phosphate Esters
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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/d4s...
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Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines
Stimuli-responsive transmembrane ion transport has become a prominent area of research due to its fundamental importance in cellular processes and potential therapeutic applications. Commonly used stimuli include pH, light, and reduction or oxidation agents. This paper presents the use of dynamic covalent ch
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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hi all. Great to discover this #ChemSky community, after a few disconnected months 😃
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