🔋There is a small chance that rechargeable #lithium batteries will ignite, leak or even explode.🧯

How to make them safer?

Giuseppe Portale, Ass. Prof. of #Polymerchemistry and #Physics at the UG, and his team are building safer small coin batteries using solid #polymers.🪙

Read our 3rd story on #batterydevelopers of #FSE 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/batterijen/how-to-make-batteries-safer

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #lithiumbattery #polymerscience #research #polymer #chemistry #ScientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

🌀 Inspired by the #ShanghaiTower.

Qi Zhang & Ben Feringa's team developed the first synthetic dynamic helical #polymer.

➿ At low temperatures, the molecule looks like a coiled spring, which unfolds again upon heating. 🌡️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/shanghai-tower-serves-as-an-inspiration-for-the-first-synthetic-dynamic-helical-polymer

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #FSE #research #chemistry #polymerscience #syntheticbiology

We want your views! Are you a polymer scientist or engineer? We would value your input on the future of polymer data capture and retrieval.

Please help us out by filling this survey: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=wE8mz7iun0SQVILORFQISyvDWfdJTrhBmNzEfSmjy1dUMzA1NFEzVTFXN09FSU0xWlFJNUdKTjQ3Vi4u&route=shorturl

#polymerscience #survey #polymer #scientist #engineer #research #datacapture #dataretrival #polymerdata

Job - Alert 🧑🏻‍🔬

🔬 Chemiker:in – Polymere Materialien und Klebstoffe als Wissenschaftliche:n Assistent:in 100 %

Apply until - Until the position is filled
Location: Switzerland, Winterthur

🔗 https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/chemikerin-polymere-materialien-und-klebstoffe-als-wissenschaftlichen-assistentin-100/

#hiring #PolymerScience #Chemistry #Engineering #Materialsscience

We have a fantastic 4-year PhD opportunity in sustainable polymer synthesis, fully funded in collaboration with industry. Start dates window oct 2023-jan 2024. Interested? get in touch #PhDposition #Jobs #plastics #phdstudent #sustainability #biobased #polymerscience https://www.bonlab.info/blog/2023/3/9/join-us-as-a-phd-student-to-unravel-the-mechanism-of-sustainable-polymerization-reactions