Damien Debecker

We welcome contributions showing new conceptual insights and innovative develompents that open up new avenues in "the engineering side of the story".
Currently fully open access and fully free to publish.

Chem & Bio Engineering (@pubs.acs.org‬) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes significant advances in all aspects of chemical and biological engineering. pubs.acs.org/journal/cbeh...

Ethanol dehydration with aerosol-made mesoporous aluminosilicates featuring dispersed active sites Amorphous aluminosilicates are known for their excellent performance in (bio)ethanol dehydration for ethylene production. Several studies showed that …

New paper out!
Ethanol dehydration with aerosol-made mesoporous aluminosilicates featuring dispersed active sites
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Please note that fathers are NOT allowed to change diapers

Big crowds gather in Hungarian capital to defy ban on Budapest Pride | CNN Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year, is unfolding as bo...

#courage
Big crowds gather in Hungarian capital to defy ban on Budapest Pride www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/e... #orban #Hungary #pride

The lab in the spotlight today (MOOC in the making)

Artwork for next paper

pro tip: never mark your draft file (paper, report, thesis) as "final". Especially not when you send it to supervisor/collaborators for feedback ;-)

A combined DFT-Experimental study on FSP-made Ru/Ti-SiO2 catalysts for CO2 methanation Flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) was employed to synthesize Ti-modified SiO₂ in a single step, serving as the support for Ru-based catalysts in CO₂ methana…

Flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) was employed to synthesize Ti-modified SiO₂ in a single step, serving as the support for Ru-based catalysts in CO₂ methanation reactions
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Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture | CNN The body of a young Ukrainian woman who died in Russian captivity after being held incommunicado for many months was returned to Ukraine with several organs removed and showing signs of torture, Ukrai...

Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture and with missing organs
edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/e...

Un avenir sombre pour les universités francophones Plus de 2.000 membres du corps universitaire signant une carte blanche et, disent-ils « s’unissent pour sauver la recherche, l’enseignement et la prospérité ».

Un avenir sombre pour les universités francophones
Plus de 2.000 membres du corps universitaire signant une carte blanche et, disent-ils « s’unissent pour sauver la recherche, l’enseignement et la prospérité ». www.lesoir.be/671749/artic...

Spray-made porous CuO-CeO2 microspheres rival precious metal catalysts for the low-temperature oxidation of air pollutants Environmental constraints regarding the abatement of toxic gaseous pollutants such as carbon monoxide and various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) de…

Now out:
CuO-CeO2 composite catalysts prepared in one-step, using a mild aerosol process, and featuring outstanding activity in the total oxidation of air pollutants.
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Des pensions rabotées de 30 à 40% pour les professeurs d’université - RTBF Actus Ce professeur d’université donne cours dans le domaine du recyclage des matériaux. Il a 62 ans. Il est proche de la...

Proposition: on n'organise pas les examens/délibés/diplomations cette année.
(les conducteurs de train bloquent le rail, les bagagistes bloquent les aéroports, les agriculteurs bloquent les autoroutes,... et nous on se fait plumer tranquillement?)
www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

Illustration featuring a series of icons representing different concepts: a camera, a bar graph with mathematical symbols, a wheat stalk, a computer monitor, a shovel, a plant growing in a field, interlocking gears, and an Open Science symbol

🧪🌱💡 #joboffer #plantscijob #postdoc

Exciting opportunity to join our #ERC funded #DROOGHT project at the UCLouvain in #Belgium

We are looking for a 2-year #postdoc to work on the development of a new #multiscale #root #modelling pipeline.

#wheat #drought #root

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Waste to Value =>
Glycerol, a low value bio-based platform chemical, can be directly converted (in high yields!) to high value rare sugar L-erythrulose, using a multi-enzyme cascade reaction.
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#preprint #chemrxiv

See you in La Rochelle!
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ISGC The International Symposium on Green Chemistry

ISGC 2025, 12-16 may.
The world rendez-vous in sustainable chemistry !
Scientific program is now online. www.isgc-symposium.com

YouTube video by Netflix France Making-of ADOLESCENCE : 4 épisodes en 4 plans-séquences

Mind blowing, really
youtu.be/hZMmp-suK4o?... #Adolescence #netflix

My morning emoticon.

Crystallization-Assisted Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Amines Using Membrane-Immobilized Transaminase The production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) requires enantiopure chiral amines, for which greener synthesis processes are needed. Transaminases (TAs) are enzymes that catalyze the enant...

Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Amines Using Membrane-Immobilized Transaminase
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Trump has fired scientists who monitor the ocean. It comes at the worst possible time | CNN One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely unexplained change.

#Trump has fired scientists who monitor the #ocean. It comes at the worst possible time
www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/c...

Call for applications for a Junior Professor chair at Université de Poitiers
"Reaction mechanisms in catalytic processes"
www.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u...

ChemCatChem: from
Europe for the World

(Announcing the new Editorial and Early Career Advisory Boards)

International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry
June 1-5, 2025 – Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers: Synthetic Biology—Enabling Technologies and Practical Applications | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog This Virtual Special Issue from Chem & Bio Engineering will showcase leading research in the field of synthetic biology. Submit your manuscript by September 30, 2025.

Call for Papers in Chem & Bio Engineering: Synthetic Biology—Enabling Technologies and Practical Applications
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Le recours systématique à l’intelligence artificielle générative détériorerait les facultés cognitives permettant l’esprit critique Une étude conduite par Microsoft et l'Université Carnegie Mellon pointe les effets sur le cerveau d'une délégation à une IA générative de tâches d'analyse de connaissances.

Au plus les personnes utilisent l’IA générative dans leur travail, moins elles feront preuve d’esprit critique et au moins elles sollicitent leurs capacités d’analyse. Cela peut "entraîner la détérioration de facultés cognitives qui devraient être préservées".
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Progress in advanced MOF-derived materials for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants Technology advancement has led to significant environmental pollution causing adverse effects to the environment and human health. To mitigate this, m…

New review out
"Progress in advanced MOF-derived materials for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants"
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Is it April fool already? 🤦‍♂️