Lewis MacKenzie
Upconversion nanoparticles, optical biosensors, chiral spectroscopy, scicomm, blood oxygen | bass player | uranium glass collector
Group website: www.mackenzie-lab.org
he/him | Glasgow | Expect typos
- Fun preprint title #Chemsky chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
- The Moon over Livingstone Tower. #Glasgow
- Oh look what the postman brought! @alicefraser.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lewis MacKenzieGreat aurora visible in Dwingeloo yesterday!
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- Excitation map of victorian (1890s) Davidson of Gateshead pearline uranium glass. Sweet-spots for fluorescence are 325 nm and 410 nm, emission peaking at 532 nm. #uraniumglass
- Fellow #lanthanide botherers, don't miss the new data on lanthanide transition and spectra published late 2025. This work superceeds the old experiments and has very nice creative-common licenced figures! #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Just checked my Facebook 'memories' from 2011. I'm moaning about being rejected from a science communication PhD program because I didn't have a humanities background 🤦 Anyway, here's my paper on science podcasts that's been cited 164 times 😉 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
- Cool new fourier framework mapping the 3D chirality of supramolecular systems - from nanoparticles to DNA and proteins! #Chemsky #Chirality www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Why are nanoparticles cool? Reason #9874: you can make them "wear" cancer cell membranes to evade the immune system and deliver drugs to those nasty cancer cells! #UCNPs #upconversion pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
- Upconversion nanoparticles are as tough as nails - you can even use them to tag explosives, as set out in this paper by the group of Hirsch! #UCNPs #upconversion pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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- Funded #PhD opportunity in my group at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, starting October 2026. The funding covers UK tuition fees and stipend. Applicants must be eligible for UK student status. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- The Royal Society Netwton International fellowship for non-UK early career researchers opens soon. If anyone in the world of #upconversion is interested, please let me know because I can host. royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
- Interesting to see fairly efficient 660 nm (red) to 380 nm (UV) photonic upconversion in #UCNPs. I wonder if it will work in water? pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
- The UK's first dedicated #upconversion spectrometer is now up and running in my research group - high upconversion sensitivity detection, lifetime and quantum yield* capabilities. Please get in touch if you are interested in collaborating! *Full upconversion QY coming later 2026
- First day back in office, to find out I got a peer-review invitation on *Christmas Day* and that the request has been withdrawn because I didn't reply soon enough....
- A beautiful example of Victorian 'pearline' uranium glass, made by Davidson of Gateshead in England. This is the 'Lady Chippendale' pattern, circa 1890s. #uraniumglass
- Just realized that an analogy for quantum superfluorescence in #upconversion nanoparticles is a like bag of microwave popcorn where every kernel pops nearly simultaneously, instead of individually over minutes! 🍿 #ucnps #photonics #chemsky
- I've upgraded one of my uranium glass cabinets with USB powered UV spotlights #uraniumglass #fluoresence
- New fluorescent demigorgon just dropped
- Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄 Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️ Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei Happy holidays!
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- Big scenes in the Stranger Things finale when it turns out the big bad was Maxwell's Demon
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- Sunset from my office in Glasgow - you can spot Tinto and High Street train station
- Reposted by Lewis MacKenzieLooking for some help! I'm putting together materials for a postdoc workshop on writing cover letters and abstracts for general journals like Science, Nature, PNAS. Any advice, tips, or resources to share? I will compile and share back! 🧪😀
- Light-activated pain-free drug delivery into skin using #upconverison nanoparticle constructs - exciting work! This specific application is for IVF drug release. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Reposted by Lewis MacKenzieI tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
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- Cool use of hybrid upconversion nanomaterials!
- Trio of yellow Victorian (1870s) uranium glass vases in string directional daylight. The green fluorescence can be seen even in this bright sunlight! #uraniumglass
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- Clever assay format - using a pipette tip as cuvette and incubator/reactor! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
- Wake up babe, a new maths maguffin just dropped www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
