SCS Materials Chemistry

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👇Event alert + last chance to register for the #OperandoDay on 24 September at PSI.

📅 Register by 12 September: indico.psi.ch/event/17800/
📜 Agenda: same link

Thanks to our affiliated board member Maarten Nachtegaal and his team at PSI for the organization.

#Operando
@psich.bsky.social

👏Congrats!

Big congrats! 👏Amazing recognition and outlook. We are already looking forward to all the many important contributions you and your team will bring to #science (including on #materials #chemistry) in Switzerland.

@ethz.ch @maksymuki.bsky.social @psich.bsky.social @swisschemistry.bsky.social

@anastasakilab.bsky.social @ethz.ch @merkleinstitute.bsky.social @swisschemistry.bsky.social

🏆And the Prizes for the #Best #OralContribution of our #materials #chemistry session at the SCS #fm25 went to ... Victoria Lohmann from ETH Zürich (winner) and Andrea Dodero from AMI Fribourg (runner-up). 👏to both, and 🙏to the Metrohm Foundation for sponsoring!

🏆And the Prizes for the #Best #Poster of our #materials #chemistry session at the SCS #fm25 went to ... Oleksandr Kolomiiets from ETH Zürich / Empa (winner) and Ioana Popa from PSI (runner-up). 👏Congrats to both! 🙏And thanks to @dsmfirmenich.bsky.social
for sponsoring!

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Last, but not least: 🙏 to the professional SCS Head Office crew (David Spichiger, Céline Wittwer, and Sarah Schmitz) for running this mammoth event so smoothly! Be it when herding us into the lecture halls, or quietly organizing everything behind the scenes.
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🙏 to all the various contributors from #industry for their support. A special gratitude goes to the Metrohm Foundation and dsm-firmenich for sponsoring the prizes for our best talks and best posters, and to TA instruments / Waters GmbH for presenting in our #materials #chemistry session.
#fm25

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Many 🙏 to Yongping Gan and Ngoc Minh Huong Lee from UZH (David Tilley group, in the middle of this photo) for all their kind technical assistance and the photo shooting sessions.
@davidtilley.bsky.social
@chem.uzh.ch

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Next, many 🙏 to the organizers of our #materials #chemistry session for preparing such an exciting program: Prof. Fabian von Rohr and Prof. Bastian Brand.
@vonrohr.bsky.social

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First, many 🙏 to the general organizers Prof. Eva Freisinger, Prof. Michal Juríček, and their teams from UZH for the excellent organization.
@michaljuricek.bsky.social
@chem.uzh.ch

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Now that the SCS Fall Meeting 2025 has closed, let us 🙏 the many people who brought us chemists in 🇨🇭 together today.

a group photo of our afternoon speakers with the session chair (Bastian Brand, 2nd from the right)

Lively discussions at the #materials #chemistry poster session at today's SCS Fall Meeting in Zürich.
#fm25
#earlycareer
@swisschemistry.bsky.social

Their talks took us from building and disassembling polymers, over deciphering the structure of MOFs, to the solid-state chemistry of growing inorganic single crystals of quantum materials. A true pleasure.
@swisschemistry.bsky.social

More exciting talks by early-career scientists in #MatChem 's afternoon session at SCS #fm25:
Isabelle Kolly (Uni Bern), Jikson Pulparayil Mathew (Uni Basel), Valentin-Răzvan Lupu (ETH Zurich/Empa Dübendorf), Victoria Lohmann (ETH Zurich), Janek Nathanael Tangermann (Uni Geneva).

Prof. Maksym Yarema (ETH Zürich) taking us on a quick dive into the huge and beautiful world of metallic and intermetallic #nanocrystals. These tiny particles can be prepared in a highly uniform fashion and utilized in a wide range of applications.
#fm25
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Dr. Till Schertenleib, one of our two SCS MatChem PhD Award winners giving us a glimpse into his award-winning doctoral work at the group of Wendy Lee Queen (EPFL Lausanne). Congrats, Till, and all the best for your bright academic future!
@tillschertenleib.bsky.social
@swisschemistry.bsky.social

Our industry talk: Oliver Skarsetz from TAInstruments / Waters GmbH on Polymer Analysis from Cradle to Grave and Beyond

Correction: the last speaker was Andrea Vezzosi (EPFL Lausanne).

From colloidal photonics over solid-state batteries to perovskite solar cells. Our morning session at the SCS #fm25 reflects the breadth and state-of-the-art research on #materials #chemistry in 🇨🇭. 🙏 to our speakers Andrea Dodero, Julian Baumgärtner, and Andrea Venazzi.
@swisschemistry.bsky.social

Right now, Prof. Marco Lattuada (Uni Fribourg) is kicking off the #materials #chemistry parallel session at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zürich, chaired by Prof. Maksym Yarema.
We are seeing beautiful colloidal handles to engineering colors for diverse applications.
#fm25
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After the ☕ break, we'll be ready for the #materials #chemistry session organized by @vonrohr.bsky.social and Bastian Brand!

The SCS Fall Meeting 2025 has just been kicked off. Ready for a full day of interesting exchanges on chemistry in 🇨🇭 and beyond.
#fm25
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Only 10 days left!
⏰ @ all supervisors of PhD students in Switzerland. Please see below. And please spread the word.

A week ago, we concluded our Swiss Summer School on Materials Chemistry 2025. Here the group photo. Thanks to all participants and speakers for the productive hands-on study sessions & Prof. Jonathan De Roo and @spichiger.bsky.social from @swisschemistry.bsky.social for the organization!
#matsem25

Next up is Dr. Stefan Canossa (ETH Zürich) on uncovering order and disorder in MOFs from single-crystal total scattering. Didactically brilliant, scientifically exciting, aesthetically pleasing, and thought-provoking. @stecanossa.bsky.social

#mat25

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