Had a fantastic day at Cambridge University to kick off our collaborative new large Reconstructable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Metamaterials (ReNOMMs)project. Ready for some fantastic and fun science the years ahead.

Beautiful walk this morning.

Welcome to all new students to the University of Warwick the coming week. In Chemistry around 200 UGs and 60 PGs will join our vibrant community. I am looking forward to meeting and interacting with many of you. Let's do great science, together! 🧪🍎🥽

A key objective of a university is to teach the next generation. To transfer knowledge in a way that students learn how to reason and innovate. It is not just data transfer. To reinforce this, I will be teaching a lot in the coming academic year, with pleasure. @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

The use of the word ubiquitous in scientific papers of the last couple of years is indeed ubiquitous. Sigh. 🧪🍎🥽

Interesting discussion with @jamestapper.bsky.social today on the Global Plastics Treaty. The elephant in the room: consumerism and the global economy addicted to it. Without addressing the need to go for durable and repairable products and not opt for "fast" or "single use", humanity will be lost.

Five years ago, during the COVID lockdown I wrote the first version of my polymer colloids course as an online e-book. I am finally converting and updating it to a (digital) textbook, and try it out this fall/winter. After that, the plan is to release it. 🥽🍎🧪

Warwick marketing ‘fiasco’ shows ‘education isn’t a luxury brand’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...

We will be more active here on bluesky with what we are up to in our research team, and our teaching activities at the University of Warwick. Finally gave up on X.

We had a fantastic time at the International Polymer Colloids Group 2025 Conference in Sète, France.

Talk ready: CHECK. Flights on time:CHECK. On my way to the best polymer colloids event in the world. #IPCG2025

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Many congratulations to Alex Fletcher who won a best talk award at today's annual @warwickchem postgraduate symposium. Fantastic news for the team. #Sustainability #warwickuni 🥽🍎🧪

What would be good to see in an EU-UK deal is that anyone with settled status should no longer need a Schengen visa to enter the EU as this currently is a tremendous hurdle thanks to Brexit. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu #UK-EUdeal

This week we welcomed Arda Hunca to the team as an undergraduate researcher. His project involves the synthesis of polymer latexes using CKA monomers. 🥽🍎🧪

PROTECT THE DOLLS

Hot of the press. A collaboration with the team of Soroush Abolfathi at the University of Warwick. Mingqi Guo did a fantastic job! 🧪🍎🥽 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With Academia under financial pressure, this article hits home. It is time to focus on our core objectives and purpose. academic.oup.com/brain/articl... 🥽🍎🧪

BonLab's honorary member.

Great new team pic!

Welcome to the BonLab villa

We are on our way for our annual group getaway. Looking forward to excellent team building and science the next 3 days!

On the way to Manchester University to do a PhD viva. Am looking forward to the day with @dantoolan.bsky.social, Lee Fielding, Michael Shaver, and of course the candidate Haoyan Pan.

Fantastic to see the enthusiasm from people from all parts of Warwick University today at our Sandpit. Sustainable polymer science and engineering sits at our heart. We are committed to innovate, together with our students and external partners and deliver a green leap forward for society.

A big thank you to Joserra Leiza for the great times and beautiful food in Donostia @polymat.bsky.social and to Alex van Herk for his great company.

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On the way to Donostia for a PhD defence. Looking forward to catching up with the people @polymat.bsky.social

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Bowen Qian joins us as a PhD researcher working on new sustainable polymer colloids. What's better than to get stuck in an do an emulsion polymerization on your third day! #chemsky 🧪🍎🥽

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Watching Dune Prophecy and we are lovin' it.

Despite being in the middle of winter, the album Hey! from Julio Iglesias released in 1980 makes it feel like summer. ⛱️ 🌞 🥽🍎🧪 open.spotify.com/album/49hY4d...

Your company can join this exciting initiative. Our submission deadline is end January.

www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan... Check out what we achieved in 2024. 2025 is going to be great (at least I hope it will be). #chemsky 🥽🍎🧪

Happy new year to all! If you are looking for a PhD position, why not join us in 2025 and contribute to sustainable polymer colloid science. Check us out at: www.bonlab.info 🧪🍎🥽

Join us at the Warwick Polymer Group. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKP785/a... ,🥽🍎🧪

Proud of the participants of my Colloids master course that ran over the last 10 weeks. This morning they had their exam. I marked it immediately. They did great. 🧪🍎🥽

Is your company interested in advanced colloidal and polymer materials? Join our initiative together with the universities of Warwick, Cambridge, St. Andrews, and Birmingham. Become a partner in our bid for a £12M EPSRC Hub in reconfigurable 3D Metamaterials. DM for more info.

Join BonLab as a PhD researcher in 2025 www.bonlab.info/blog/2024/9/... 🧪🥽🍎

Wrapped up my colloids course on Friday. Taught emulsion polymerization, colloid motion, stability (incl. DLVO), capillarity and Pickering stabilization, and rheology. For next year a refresh to include applications and environmental fate. 🥽🧪🍎

Yesterday we did part 2 of the Emulsion Polymerization lab. Recipes were tweaked to investigate the role of the surfactant on particle size distributions. 🍎🧪🥽

Two first year UG students and a team of 3rd year UG students won the Polymer Café Xmas quiz. Awesome! 😎,🍎🧪🥽

If there's something strange In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? 🍎🧪🥽🐶

Earlier this year we showed that eutectic mixtures of small organic molecules have potential to replace plastics. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 🥽🧪🍎 #chemsky #edusky #plastics

Today the Warwick Polymer MSc students experienced the sensation of emulsion polymerization. 🍎🥽🧪 #chemsky

Happy 2nd birthday to Patches, our cockapoo. Great walk and then storm Bert unleashed. 🍎🥽🧪🐶🐕

There are also 2 places to find polymer people! @kampoon1.bsky.social has put together this great list as well! ⭐️ go.bsky.app/PAiUPxg

I’ve added quite a few new polymer scientists to this starter pack over the last couple days! Check them out! #chemsky #polymersky Also, always appreciate the help in finding people! Comment/DM to be added and continue to share :) go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa