Kenneth Showalter passed away on June 4th. Ken was a leader in the field of nonlinear dynamics. We remember some of his accomplishments in this short paper that just appeared in Chaos: doi.org/10.1063/5.03...
Oliver Steinbock
@osteinbock.bsky.social
Chemistry professor studying chemical self-organization and far-from-equilibrium processes. Opinions are my own and not the views of FSU.
Lecture videos of the AI Bootcamp @chemistryfsu.bsky.social are now on YouTube (link below). Our event will continue on Wedn 08/19, covering copyright, misinformation, AI alignment, AI in natural product research, career planning with AI & a panel discussion with experts from industry and academia.
Our AI Bootcamp is starting tomorrow, Thursday 08/06, at 9:00 am 😀🤖 The first day includes introductory and LLM-use lectures, hands-on activities, and a guest talk on autonomous labs by Elias Nakouzi (PNNL). @wenzhulab.bsky.social See you in CSL1003.
Using artificial intelligence to generate catchy lyrics and music, a Florida State University chemist created a playlist of songs to assist students in learning about thermodynamics. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Expanding objects with a "hard" interface can form patterns if the selection of the breach sites has an age bias. In this new Phys Rev Res paper by Amari Morris, we show that for chemical gardens, this bias follows stretched exponentials that approach scale-free power laws. doi.org/10.1103/t5gt...
Do stains of dried urine reveal chemical composition? Our new paper "Machine Learning-Enabled Image Analysis of Complex Chemical Mixtures: Synthetic Urine Droplets as a Test System" looks into this question ... doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Machine Learning-Enabled Image Analysis of Complex Chemical Mixtures: Synthetic Urine Droplets as a Test System
Dried droplet deposits encode compositional information through evaporation-driven self-organization, offering a potential low-cost sensing modality for chemical analyses. Here, we evaluate the feasib...
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New preprint. Machine learning can predict chemical composition from simple photos of dried drop stains, but does it still work for complex mixtures like synthetic urine? We collected 70,000 images and tried it ... doi.org/10.26434/che...
Machine Learning-Enabled Image Analysis of Complex Chemical Mixtures: Synthetic Urine Droplets as a Test System | ChemRxiv
Dried droplet deposits encode compositional information through evaporation-driven self-organization, offering a potential low-cost sensing modality for chemical analysis. Here, we evaluate the feasibility of inferring solute concentrations and pH from ...
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Our recent APL Machine Learning abstract as a slow K-pop song 🎶 🇰🇷🎵 Enjoy!! suno.com/s/mUwia4C6uu...
New preprint posted on ChemRxiv: "Charge-Selective Adsorption of Organic Molecules in Microfluidic Mg(OH)2 Precipitate Membranes" chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Charge-Selective Adsorption of Organic Molecules in Microfluidic Mg(OH)2 Precipitate Membranes | ChemRxiv
The porous mineral structures of alkaline hydrothermal vent chimneys have been proposed as natural concentrators of dissolved organic molecules, potentially addressing the longstanding dilution problem in deep-sea origin-of-life hypotheses. Here, we use ...
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New paper on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2602.07183. We show that the aging of precipitate membranes and chemical gardens controls pattern formation by favoring growth at freshly formed regions. This time dependence follows stretched exponentials that transition to a scale-free power law.
Marangoni convection meets chemical waves in the BZ reaction, where small pillars cause flower-like patterns. New paper from a collaboration with Azam Gholami, Detlef Lohse, and others. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Symmetry Breaking in Chemical Systems: Engineering Complexity Through Self‐Organization and Marangoni Flows
We show that solutal Marangoni flows in thin films climbing the outer surfaces of hydrophilic obstacles break circular Belousov-Zhabotinsky waves into striking flower-like patterns. Evaporation-drive....
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Today in our #RareDiseaseThursday spotlight: Argininosuccinate synthetase deficiency (ASSD), a urea cycle disorder caused by pathogenic variants in ASS1, impairing the conversion of citrulline+aspartate to argininosuccinate. This leads to long-term neurological damage.
Some thoughts on grading ... if you want to see how ThermoTutor is doing it, check out thermo-tutor.qwyzzee.com #HigherEd #Chemistry #STEM #college #thermodynamics #pchem
Congrats Wen! 🎉🎉➡️FSU chemist earns $2.1 million NIH grant to investigate molecular causes of disease: news.fsu.edu/news/science...
FSU chemist earns $2.1 million NIH grant to investigate molecular causes of disease
A Florida State University researcher has received a multi-million-dollar grant to investigate the role enzymes — which influence nearly every process in
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Over the past summer, I built an AI-powered learning platform for thermodynamics students. It’s called ThermoTutor. Here’s a short manifesto on what it does and why I think it’s useful: thermo-tutor.qwyzzee.com
Quick introduction to ThermoTutor. Get personalized thermodynamics tutoring with instant feedback and follow-up conversations. This 3-minute demo shows how ThermoTutor works, from problem selection to grading to asking follow-up questions. #chemistry #studyhelp #pchem
Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) uniquely powers both the TCA cycle & electron transport chain. SDH mutations cause SDH deficiency, disrupting energy metabolism & leading to developmental delays. #RareDiseaseThursday
KARS1 encodes lysyl-tRNA synthetase. Biallelic KARS mutations cause KARS syndrome, a severe disorder that affects multiple organs, particularly the nervous system. #RareDiseaseThursday
Our new paper describes a synthetic "cell" that moves over superhydrophobic surfaces. It consists of an H2O2 drop and a chemical garden tube that spins like a propeller or orbits around a large internal O2 bubble; bursting causes repeating cm-scale motion. @softmatter.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...
Co-motion of catalytic tubes and host droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces
The ability to convert chemical energy into directed motion is a defining feature of living systems and a central goal in the design of synthetic active matter. Here, we report a self-propelling syste...
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The abstract submission deadline for our symposium is TODAY! Submit your abstract at sermacs-swrm2025.abstractcentral.com/submission before it’s too late; I hope to see you all in sunny Orlando this October!
Bryan Kudisch@bkudisch.bsky.social · last yr.Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to Julia and Adwaith for completing the 2025 Young Scholar Program and research symposium. It was a joy having you both in lab and we are very proud of you!
List of so-called "chatGPT words". This is annoying ... do we look "suspicious" now if we write any those?! I have already cut back on the longer em dash -- 😠 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
Transaldolase deficiency is a rare metabolic disorder affecting the pentose phosphate pathway, leading to liver dysfunction, growth delays, and skin abnormalities. It’s caused by mutations in the TALDO1 gene. Early diagnosis is key to managing symptoms. #RareDiseaseThursday
The bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-body mass ratio of all vertebrates ... well, it has to be someone 😆 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E...
