Younger kid was asking if I’d had classes that were curved and if I hated them. Told them I got an A in a class where I scored 50% on the exams ( taught by Wolczanski) and that it was my 2nd favorite class (after by Coates).

They asked what I would score now. I estimated 30% without retaking the class and 70% if I did.

“Oh, so you’ve improved!”

Love that kid.

#gradschool #organometallics #polymers #chemiverse #growthmindset #brutalcurve

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Stephan Hacker · @Stephanhacker2
273 followers · 214 posts · Server mstdn.science

Great talk by Kevin Neumann at . He talked about his group's work on zitterionic polymers as coatings to prevent bacterial biofilms. Exciting chemistry of stable ylides to have a minimal distance between positive and negative charge. doi.org/10.1002/anie.202308971

#iupacchains2023 #chemistry #chemiverse #polymers #antibiotics

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Ellis Crawford · @EllisCrawford
373 followers · 654 posts · Server fediscience.org

Don't miss your chance to submit a poster abstract for this year's on the chemistry of polymers

Present in person or online, however suits you. Submit your abstract by 17 August 2023: rsc.org/events/detail/75795/ch

#conference #chemiverse #polymers #chemistry #ChemSciSymposium

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Anne McNeil (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Alex Zhukhovitskiy (Chapel Hill, North Caroli-na), and Yutan Getzler (Gambier, Ohio)

4/4

ps: special thanks to the community for being so loudly and beautifully queer that we decided to move forward with this after going back and forth about exact wording for months.

#grc #polymers #chemiverse #deir #conference #dei #equity #diversity #inclusion #respect #Science

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Adrian Lorenzana · @adrian
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Adrian Lorenzana · @adrian
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Adrian Lorenzana · @adrian
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ChemistryViews · @ChemistryViews
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Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins: A Trojan Horse Strategy: Recyclable polyolefins through a strategy for obtaining polyethylene with periodic unsaturation in the polymer backbone

bit.ly/46ovE0L

#polyolefin #Research #recycling #polymers #chemiverse #chemviews #chemistryviews #chemistry

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ChemistryViews · @ChemistryViews
262 followers · 180 posts · Server mstdn.social

Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins: A Trojan Horse Strategy: Recyclable polyolefins through a strategy for obtaining polyethylene with periodic unsaturation in the polymer backbone

bit.ly/46ovE0L

#polyolefin #Research #recycling #polymers #chemiverse #chemviews #chemistryviews #chemistry

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IndiaNewsWatch · @indianewswatch
191 followers · 1425 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Why agri plastics are bigger threats than they appear to be

Just 1 kg of thin mulching sheets is enough to cover and contaminate as much as 700 square feet of agricultural land.

downtoearth.org.in/blog/pollut

#agriculture #plastics #polymers #pvc #farmers #environment #health #economy #pollution #fao #india

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Frank Aylward · @foaylward
457 followers · 1020 posts · Server genomic.social

opening at the Hsu lab at Virginia Tech - a wonderful group:

The project is the design of an advanced biodegradable menstrual product that aims to locally provide pain relief with antimicrobial properties. We are looking to immediately hire a postdoc, preferably with experience in , , , engineering, etc. It is currently funded by the Commonwealth Health Research Board. More details can be found here:

careers.pageuppeople.com/968/c

#postdoc #polymers #biomaterials #chemistry

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Adrian Lorenzana · @adrianlorenzana
16 followers · 1 posts · Server fediscience.org

Allo! I've migrated around the fediverse from my own personal server to mastodon.social and finally to a dedicated science server! 😅 Here’s my re-re-re- .
I’m a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst interested in and tons more :)

#photography #academia #teaching #webdev #cats #videogames #food #hiking #running #Music #drums #polymers #chemistry #introduction

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luolanglang · @luolanglang
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Discover the Magic of High-Performance Materials!

#polymers #highperformance #materialscience

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Interesting work by Chen & Xu driving poly(valerolactone) to higher molecular weights yielding significant improvements in thermomechanical properties. They also achieve very high recovery of monomer via acid catalyzed depolymerization. I wish I knew rheology better to know if these properties will actually make PVL competitive with polyolefins.

doi.org/10.1002/anie.202303791

#chemiverse #polymers #chemicalrecycling #crm

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Int. Graduate School BACCARA · @baccara
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The lecture series in cooperation with ECS Student Chapter Münster continues with a talk on "Redox as Materials for Next-Generation " by Prof. Birgit Esser from Uni Ulm.

Please join on Monday, May, 8th at 3:30 pm CEST.

👉wwu.zoom.us/j/61099136225?pwd=

#energystorage #battchat #batteries #electrode #polymers #baccara

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
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Pusteblume · @pusteblume
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Nach einer Weile passivem Mitlesen bin ich jetzt tatsächlich .
Ich bin Wissenschaftler, Bereich und , U30, Elter eines kleinen Kindes ( ) und daher sehr viel mir dem unterwegs, . Ich glaube daran, dass gemeinsam eine bessere Welt aufgebaut werden kann, daher .

#neuhier #polymers #kreislaufwirtschaft #einkind #Fedieltern #bindungsorientiert #autofrei #fahrrad #stadtmensch #nocapitalism #antifaschismus #fuckpatriarchy #colorful

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SFU Science · @sfuscience
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Congratulations to graduate Ranah Chavoshi! Her company PhyCo Technologies has won the 2023 Coast Capital Venture Prize competition with its innovative approach to developing biodegradeable plastics from seaweed. sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2023/04

#sfubiosci #plastic #bioplastic #polymers

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heating your substrates by just whacking the shit out of them with a giant paddle is kinda awesome
&ENews

#chemiverse #cracker #polymers #c

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Just sitting here feeling awe at the fact that the person who developed a commercial dynamic light scattering detector is still alive. DLS is key to the polymer topology arguments central to my work. I guess I could be doing osmometry. Anyway, some day I want to meet Philip Wyatt and thank him.

#polymers #chemiverse #gratitude

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