Congratulations to the new Doctor, Andreas Simoens. Excellent work. From fundamental Phosphorus Chemistry all the way to Flow. Superb defense! @synbioc.bsky.social

⚗️📝🚨 So, we also tried our hand at some CO2 electrochemistry 😁. It turned out to be a fun (and technically challenging) project. Great work by Jonas! @reactchemeng.rsc.org @synbioc.bsky.social @chsteven.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

😂

Meet Em. Prof. Mikko Hupa at #RRB2025 Check our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/59ed4c3c3f6a... @yagut.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @synbioc.bsky.social @chsteven.bsky.social

⚗️📝 Computational tools continue to speed up chemistry research. As his final (?) PhD paper, Bavo established a scalable and continuous aminolysis method of methyl esters, using ammonia. Congrats! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🤩Ghent is leading the technology and innovation rankings in Belgium: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

⚗️📝🚨 Chemistry paper alert: About 10 years ago we noticed that photo-oxidation of furfural in non-nucleophilic solvents delivers a 1/1 mix of maleic anhydride and the corresponding butenolide. No explanation was found until now. Jonas finally cracked that mistery case! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

⚗️📝 Paper alert: It's not because a solvent is bio-based and benign that we shouldn't consider good recycling strategies. Andreas Dejaeger nicely demonstrates how dihydrolevoglucosenone can be recovered from reaction mixtures by using membrane separation techniques: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#SynBioC Proud about our SynBioC team who participated at the Sofico Ghent Half Marathon last Sunday! We love: "Work hard, play hard" @chsteven.bsky.social @dhooghe-group.bsky.social @smangelinckx.bsky.social @thegreenchemlab.bsky.social

Get to know our enthousiastic SynBioC research group @chsteven.bsky.social @dhooghe-group.bsky.social @smangelinckx.bsky.social @thegreenchemlab.bsky.social

Choosing a field of study when starting higher education is a difficult and potentially life changing decision. So, this weekend, Stef Ghysels and myself tried to explain to highschool graduates what a master's degree in Bioscience Engineering: Chemistry and Bioprocess technology actually entails.

🤔

Happy 2025, #ChemSky! May all your experiments support your hypotheses.

After a fantastic year of chemistry, filled with both scientific struggles and breakthroughs, it's the groups team spirit and collaboration that matters most. So, after this fun teambuilding, we'll continue to 'slip' into bluer skies in 2025! Best wishes to all!