Alex Blokhuis

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Amazing video! 🔥

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The term is used in a variety of contexts with different meanings.

If there's an axiomatic scientific definition of "decision" with a list of properties that a system can be shown to satisfy, we can assess with respect to that particular definition in that context whether it applies or not.

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SnCl2, KI 🧪⚗️🔬💎
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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!!

#autocatalysis #chemsky 🧪⚗️

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.
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Many thanks to my collaborators Nicola Vassena and Peter Stadler 🤝.

🐛 Principle of length: autocatalysis-free oscillators must exceed a critical number of reaction steps to enable oscillations.
⚙️ Efficient evaluation methods: greatly expanding the scope of oscillators that can be assessed and their characterization.
📖 And much more! 3/3

Some highlights:
🧮 Mathematical recipes for constructing and evaluating oscillators
✍ New structural insights into what makes and breaks oscillations
🧪 Oscillators yet to be experimentally realized, employing no autocatalysis, or even no catalysis at all (!) 2/3

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 ...

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

I always was amazed by this idea that Van der Waals forces can lift a whole gecko. I suppose contact electrification is also a good explanation of why gecko's don't stick well to PTFE.

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 ...

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

CuSO4, KSCN 🧫⚗️🧪
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CoCl2, K3Fe(CN)6 🧫🧪⚗️
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CuCl2, K3[Fe(CN)6] 🧫⚗️🧪
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Ho, SnCl2 🔬⚗️🧪
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FeCl3, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️
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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...

This is some fun chemistry 🧪⚗️
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CuCl2, Fe 🧫🧪⚗️
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Zn, SnCl2 🔬🧪⚗️
#RealTimeChem #Chemsky #STEM #systemschemistry #chemistry #science

CuCl2, Na2S2O5 🧫🧪⚗️
#Realtimechem #chemsky #STEM #gel #reaction-diffusion #science #systemschemistry

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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.
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CuBr2, K2C2O4 🔬🧪
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