Jens Gaitzsch
Polymer chemist + volunteer in sports. Climbing+Ski enthusiast. Climate Crisis is just like Covid: Also real if you do not believe in it. Opinions are my own.
- It is with great pleasure that I can announce the positive outcome of my habilitation procedure after a successful defense (research talk and teaching lecture) today. Thank you very much to everyone who supported me along the way!
- Our #chemistree entry this year. Enjoy the festive season!
- And just like that, 2025 will be my most-cited year to date :)
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- Gardening meets Polymer Science: Andrea used snail slime in hydrogel-based microfluidics. This goes to show that many overlooked natural carbon sources can be highly functional and chemically very much useful. Out now in Macromolecular Rapid Communications! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Why bother with a block-copolymer, when a homopolymer works better? Nanoprecipitation of PMTC from Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation is not toxic and very potent to deliver Coumarine to cells - if the sweet spot of branching and molar mass is hit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Delivery of genetic material into cells - our most compelling case for cyclic ketene acetals. Cationic lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles with low toxicity and very good biodegradability. Now out in MARC. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Big thanks to Yiyi Deng, Jonas Debbeler + Anja Träger
- I am happy to share that radical ring-opening polymerisation (RROP) is now able to form networks just by itself! 3D structures formed just from CKAs can even keep up with a vinylic cross-linker! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Now out in @pubs.acs.org ACS Applied Polymer Materials!
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- Congratulations to Sven Schäfer for winning the poster prize at @evonik.bsky.social meets Science 2025 with our contribution on RROP of CKAs! It was a short, intense but very insightful symposium in Heidelberg. #ems2025
- Together with Andrea Koball and Doreen Hofmann, the group had a good representation at #bps25 Thanks a bunch to the organisers!
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- I had a blast at the @scienceslam.de in Hamburg at Uebel & Gefährlich. Wonderful evening with amazing science presented in very entertaining talks. Congrats to Verena Schulze for the deserving victory!
- Now in @natnano.nature.com: We need to acknowledge that - as with all new tech - AI also poses hazards we need to be aware of. Thanks @besfordgroup.bsky.social (Quinn A. Besford 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦) for leading this effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- IPF was part of the "Dresden is(s)t bunt" on Monday. Including experiments for kids and showing that Dresden can be open to foreigners and celebrate an international culture. I have to admit though that the predominant skin colour on this picture speaks volumes about the issues in the city.
- It was a privilege, quite some fun and also a bit of an honor to ring the last-lap bell continously on national television for the National Championships this weekend as part of "Die Finals" 2025 in Dresden. Maybe not as good as @simonhammann.bsky.social in Berlin back in 2018, but I tried :)
- Reposted by Jens GaitzschDass die Wirtschaftsministerin eine Lobbyministerin ist, zeigt sich unter anderem dadurch, dass sie ungefiltert die Position der Arbeitgeber vertritt.
- Mountaineering is my passion. Guiding my parents (75, 71) onto our maybe last shared 4000m-peak (Vincentpyramide, 4217m), was an absolute privilege and honour. No cable car was used up or down and a good friend joined as well. Really proud of and happy for them!
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- Unlocking a new RROP-Level with Nathany Lisbôa: Fine-tuning crystallinity and hence degradation speed by copolymerising CKAs! A bit suprisingly, hydrophobicity also plays a role as our enzyme seems to prefer a more hydrophobic polymer in its' pocket. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- To get the most out of your precious responsive hydrogels, a little pre-treatment does the trick as Doreen Hofmann has shown here quite nicely. You need to clear out possible defects or stresses from synthesis to fully unlock your functions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- When molecules stop brownian motion - don't panik, it's 0K!
- Honored to be one of the Awardees of this years' Andrew Keller Award. Truely appreciate the acknowledgment of our work and the opportunity to give an invited presentation at the #EPF2025 The prize money got matched and donated to @missionlifeline.bsky.social, Break the Fake and Panama e.V.
- Ah, @tagesschau.de.web.brid.gy investigativ: "Trump strebt ein autoritäres Präsidialregime an [...]der US-Präsident entsendet die Nationalgarde. Dahinter erkennt der Historiker Berg den Wunsch Trumps, möglichst uneingeschränkt zu regieren." Und alle: Nein. Doch. Oh! www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...
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- Reposted by Jens GaitzschZwei Promotionsstellen ausgeschrieben (65% E13, zunächst 3 Jahre) Forschung im Bereich der Lipidoxidation, analytische Kenntnises erforderlich, Lipiderfahrung vorteilhaft. Links für mehr Info und Bewerbung, Fragen an mich. www.uni-hohenheim.de/stellenangeb... www.uni-hohenheim.de/stellenangeb...
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- We have a new PhD in the world. Congratulations to Dr. Fabian Mehner, who successfully defended his PhD last week. It has been a pleasure to supervise him!
- Saxon climbing it's finest/strangest: An "extensively supported crossing" (ausgiebig unterstützter Überfall) from one summit to the other. (11. Begehung der Wolfsbrücke.)
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- "Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days [they] shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions" Und so, liebe Kinder, wurde aus dem Militär eine Schutzstaffel fürs Innere. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- We also got one of these. Happy to see that our review gets some attention. Thanks for reading it!
- Ab wann ist eigentlich der Punkt erreicht, dass Reisewarnungen für die USA ausgesprochen werden @abaerbock.diplo.de ? thetrek.co/a-german-thr...
- Reposted by Jens GaitzschDie 1000 haben wir längst hinter uns gelassen. Wir gehen schon klar auf 2000 zu. 😀 Danke an alle, die schon gezeichnet haben. Macht gerne nochmal Werbung bei Kolleg:innen - auch insbesondere an Einrichtungen, die aktuell noch wenig Zeichner:innen haben. www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
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- The Paris Climate Accord is already bust. Especially to the science community: Facts are clear, so please draw conclusions for your behaviour and live by example. As I can tell from my group: It works! There is no time left. #chemsky #climatecrisis
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- Now that's a bit weird. 2 Reviewers, both say "major revision" and the editor goes with a rejection. Is that to artificially shorten acceptance times?
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- Inseln der Glückseeligkeit: Die linksgrün-versiffte Dresdner Neustadt. Meine Heimat. Mein Stadtteil 😍
- Reposted by Jens Gaitzsch“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
- Nummer 4 wird euch überraschen! Auch wenn ich die Paywall nicht überwinden konnte: Clickbait geht immer :)
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- Community makes us stronger. It means that we can rely on each other and that we support each other. We also rely on Nature to support us. For the elections in Germany and the required resistance in the US: Stand up for more community and less egocentriac maniacs. Stand up for mother nature!
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- The graphs are a joke, the writing a pun. That is the forsaken Reviewer 1 The writing's a beauty, the figures are too, you are my hero, Reviewer 2 Revision, Rejection, or number 3's voice: Remains in the end the Editor's choice. #academicvalentine
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- Another crime occurs. The culprit has to go to court, this much is clear. Probably to prison as well. How would deportation help anyone here?
