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Using biobased and synthetic glues students exploring joining together different cellulosic waste materials (and some proteinaceous stuff too):

My TA trying not to groan when for the fourth time in one week when I make the joke to my students that we have unfortunately not won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

It’s a great day for MOFs.

Our gen chem lab is built around them: students forage leaves for tannic acid and then connect them to iron from scrap metal.

They use these iron tannates as pigments dyes and in inks and paints!

Functional MOFs from waste:

It’s a great day for MOFs.

Our gen chem lab is built around them: students forage leaves for tannic acid and then connect them to iron from scrap metal.

They use these iron tannates as pigments dyes and in inks and paints!

Functional MOFs from waste:

😆 Thankfully not yet.

For my first three years at FIT we didn't use acronyms for our department, but overnight we have become the S&M Department and I just think it gives the wrong impression to our students about science and math.

Teaching is great. You don’t need an app to tell you about subway delays your students are always updating you when they are late.

Funding for the SEM provided by NSF National Science Foundation (award #1919563).

Had a great time with Lectures on Tap at Liz’s Book Bar in BK yesterday.

It was a joy lecturing about book arts and material science to a local crowd.

The point of the story: books get MUSTY* and must be handled appropriately.

*Misleading, Ugly, Superseded, Trivial, Yeeted

Some more shots from the Center for Books Arts

Adorable post cards from the #BoekieWoekie exhibit at the Center for #BookArts

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Periodic Table - Ptable Interactive periodic table showing names, electrons, and oxidation states. Visualize trends, 3D orbitals, isotopes, and mix compounds. Fully descriptive writeups.

I would say OER broadly?

Like ptable.com or easily accessed resources like khan academy

It changes not only the tools we use to study but how we study

Yeah the permutations are the fun part. It took me a while because I was playing poker rather than balatro

Oh it’s so good, you won’t blink and it will be hours later.

a man in a suit and tie holding a 6 cell battery ALT: a man in a suit and tie holding a 6 cell battery

Oooh lithium would be fun.

I’ve been digesting metals from waste for demos and have one slot let what should I add?

So far: copper zinc lead tin iron ‘silver’ and aluminum

😬 😱 😥

Methanol, not even once.

Lots of bad news today but this hits very hard

What will the future look like if we don’t support curious students?

When I first started teaching I was very into green chem and wouldn’t do examples using chromium and mercury

Ten plus years later I’ve been brining more alchemy and history of chemistry/cosmetics in and can’t escape lead mercury and arsenic

There was a moment today where I was in Penn station and it was quiet and it was heaven.

Very excited to hit our unit on surfactants in my cosmetic chemistry class

Lots of good material to pull from this year!

When asked what mercury looks like in a Year 2 chemistry lesson, "delicious" is the wrong answer, apparently. I was teased as "brain damage boy" until I started university.

Welcome to the renaissance.

I can imagine what a smoke “killing“ enzyme might be but how would it work embedded in wax in a candle?!

I’ve recently become fascinated with Botox and found this poster staring at me at the docs office yesterday.

Here’s a partial extraction method for isolating the toxin from ‘49

Seems like a grad students nightmare.

doi:10.1126/science.103.2681.613.

Not* least.

Also there’s my pa

And last but least their 🌈 wall

Here are two of their malachite minerals and then a stunning goethite on malachite… though it kinda looks like malachite on goethite?

Grind these up and spread them on my eyes please

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@brucemuseum.bsky.social

Haha I’d be friends with their minerals

Great webinar on carbon nanomaterials & use in producing clean water via solar heating. Thank you to everyone involved in organizing. A recording will become available at a later date on the @beyondbenign.bsky.social and @iupac.org event pages/websites iupac.org/event/afford... 💚💚 #chemsky