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Abe Herzog-Arbeitman

@abe-inthelab

PhD Candidate @Johnsonchem (X) at MIT, formerly of the Tirrell Lab at UChicago PME. He/him Polymer chemistry. Networks. Batteries. Spicy food. Naps. 0000-0001-6238-7413

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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research? Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not.

The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

24.02.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 292 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 15
How Strand Continuity Governs the Toughness of Polymer Networks via Mechanophores

A cool Perspective on some of the work I was involved in with MONET! Thank you to the authors for enjoying it. This great article is open-access!

13.01.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity - Nature Chemistry Toughness and stiffness in polymer gels are generally coupled to the network structure and composition. Now it has been shown that stress-selective mechanophore junctionsβ€”tetrafunctional cyclobutanes ...

I was so busy last year that I forgot to post one of the last projects from my PhD, now out in Nature Chem! Please enjoy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

04.01.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now! Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

26.05.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 1200 πŸ” 576 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 72
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Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it:

news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

14.05.2025 13:15 πŸ‘ 514 πŸ” 322 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 30
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Glycoconjugate vaccines: platforms and adjuvants for directed immunity Abstract. Central to immune recognition is the glycocalyx, a glycan-rich coat on all cells that plays a crucial role in interactions that enable pathogen d

Valerie Lensch of @kiesslinglab.bsky.social and the Johnson group reviewed different glycan-based strategies for eliciting an immune response: academic.oup.com/glycob/artic... #glycotime

09.12.2024 12:27 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Toughening and Imparting Deconstructability to 3D‐Printed Glassy Thermosets with β€œTransferinker” Additives Transferinkers are cross-linkers capable of undergoing degenerative chain transfer and new strand growth. Incorporating transferinkers into 3D printable photopolymer resins leads to improved tensile ...

If you like polymer networks or additive manufacturing / 3D printing, please read my paper on transferinker additives in acrylate resins! CTAs that crosslink dramatically change topology, toughening without softening much. Glad to work with Peter on this one!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

04.12.2024 04:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello Bluesky! Here are some useful resources that I've compiled over the years (1/n)

sites.mit.edu/oppenheim/wa...

A fairly comprehensive database of MOF and COF water sorption parameters (including capacity, RH, reference, and pore sizes). As used in our recent paper: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

04.12.2024 00:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Predictive design of multimonomeric polyelectrolytes enables lung-specific gene delivery We present a class of programmable polymer nanoparticles capable of intravenous pDNA delivery with ∼350 000-fold enhancement of specificity to the lung by qPCR in mice. Molecular level insight of thes...

β€œIt’s been a long time comingπŸ₯°β€

The Nanite team proudly presents how predictive design of multimonomeric polyelectrolytes enables lung-specific gene delivery in Polym Chem πŸ§ͺ🫁🐁

We believe this pioneering approach can enable new eras of gene therapy 🧬

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

26.11.2024 14:58 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone

Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developingΒ a sign language lexicon for chemistry conceptsΒ that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone πŸ§ͺπŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ₯½ www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

26.11.2024 01:25 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

Hello! Add me please!

25.11.2024 14:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi! Add me as well please!

25.11.2024 14:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Controlled Gel Toughening with Tetrafunctional Cyclobutane Mechanophores Customizing the toughness of single-network polymer gels independently of their composition and topology remains an unsolved challenge. Traditionally, polymer network toughening is achieved by using s...

#Chemsky My paper on tetrafunctional cyclobutanes has been released on Chemarxiv! Mechanophores as network junctions can do wild things; I got to think about how mechanochemistry interacts with network topology and fracture mechanics. Fantastic to be a part of #MONET!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

17.11.2024 18:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello bluesky! I hope to be more active on here, and not just because I want folks to read my papers! I will tweeting about polymers and chemistry mostly; talk to me if you love long molecules, or if you think we can teach each other something #chemsky

17.11.2024 01:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0