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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 1h

The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky

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Aaron Torres Huerta @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social · 24d

🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. @hennievalkenier.bsky.social. Now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Spatiotemporal Control of the Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome‐Based Nanoreactors

Synthetic ion transporters enable precise control over carboxylate transport across liposome membranes that are preloaded with Ln3+ ions. This process triggers the spatiotemporal formation of lumines...

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Miriam de Jesus Velasquez-Hernandez @miriamvelasquez.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉@ERC_Research Grateful to all who made this possible: @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social, Rob Ameloot, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Aug 21

Inspired by Amar Flood's cyanostars, former PhD student Lau Halgreen designed these small cyanostilbene compounds. Anurag Singh took over and found them to be great synthetic chloride transporters. Also a big thanks to the other contributors. Read the story in Chem. Eur. J.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...

Cyanostilbenes as Selective Chloride Carriers Relying on CH‐anion Interactions

This manuscript presents a series of eight small compounds based on the α-cyanostilbene motif and with different substituents. Three of these compounds show good rates of chloride transport, as well ...

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎉Congratulations to Dr Matus Chvojka👨‍🎓 for passing his PhD defence (co-supervised by Vladimir Sindelar at Masaryk University) and for winning the 2nd Jean-Marie Lehn prize (awarded by the French embassy in Prague and IOCB Tech Foundation for excellent Czech and Slovak Chemistry PhD students) #Chemsky

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ISMSC2026 conference @ismsc2026.bsky.social · May 18

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out...

...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thank you very much to all speakers, co-organisers, and participants of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels for the 3 days of great discussions! And thanks a lot to the International Solvay Institutes for allowing us to organise this workshop.

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Apr 29

After a great first day of scientific discussions, we're getting ready for day 2 of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels.

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Apr 24

Read all about the anion transport by bambusuril macrocycles in our new OBC paper. Years of hard work by Matus Chvojka and with Vladimir Sindelar have led to this story that explores 8 types of fluorinated substituents, leading to very different anion transport rates. doi.org/10.1039/D5OB...

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 26

We were happy to learn that our article about the Lucigenin assay to study anion transport in liposomes (doi.org/10.1002/anse...) is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023 in Analysis&Sensing from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. #TopCitedArticle

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 20

The International Solvay Institutes are hosting an interdisciplinary discussion workshop on the "The Interplay between Molecules and Membranes" from 28-30 April 2025 in Brussels.
We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 19

Congrats on your publication! But your challenge to get access to articles sounds familiar.🙁 That's why it is really useful to have a preprint uploaded, for instance @chemrxiv.bsky.social, to allow all scientists from all countries to access the results! 🟰request to the #ChemSky community.😃

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 17

In the meanwhile @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social has joined the #ChemSky community as well, so I'd like to share this cover that he has prepared for our ChemistryEurope paper on phosphate transport: doi.org/10.1002/ceur...

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 14

Read all about the transport of inorganic phosphate and phosphate esters by synthetic anion receptors in our article in ChemistryEurope (#OpenAccess @chemistryeurope.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ceur...
🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.

Structural Requirements of Synthetic Anionophores for Inorganic Phosphate and Phosphate Esters
https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400076

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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · Feb 28

“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/d4s...

Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines

Stimuli-responsive transmembrane ion transport has become a prominent area of research due to its fundamental importance in cellular processes and potential therapeutic applications. Commonly used stimuli include pH, light, and reduction or oxidation agents. This paper presents the use of dynamic covalent ch

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hi all. Great to discover this #ChemSky community, after a few disconnected months 😃

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