🔋A battery’s life: from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal. 🚮

At the UG, Ass. Professors Xin Sun & Xiaohua Li study the #battery #lifecycle and investigate how #recycling can be made more effective and greener. ♻️

Read our 4th story on #batterydevelopers of #FSE 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/batterijen/a-battery-s-life-from-the-cradle-to-the-recycling-plant

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #lithiumbattery #mining #energy #research #science #environmentalscience #engineering #chemistry #chemicalengineering #ScientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

🔋There is a small chance that rechargeable #lithium batteries will ignite, leak or even explode.🧯

How to make them safer?

Giuseppe Portale, Ass. Prof. of #Polymerchemistry and #Physics at the UG, and his team are building safer small coin batteries using solid #polymers.🪙

Read our 3rd story on #batterydevelopers of #FSE 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/batterijen/how-to-make-batteries-safer

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #lithiumbattery #polymerscience #research #polymer #chemistry #ScientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

👀 When’s the last time you saw a #mustelid?

The #weasel, #stoat, and #polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape, or are they just hiding? 🐾

Biologists from #GELIFES at the UG are finding out how to monitor these small carnivores. 🔎

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/weaseling-out-the-best-way-to-monitor-small-carnivores

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #mustelids #FSE #research #ecology #conservation #biology #wildlife #biodiversity #ScientistsOnMastodon #conservationbiology @universityofgroningen

🌀 Inspired by the #ShanghaiTower.

Qi Zhang & Ben Feringa's team developed the first synthetic dynamic helical #polymer.

➿ At low temperatures, the molecule looks like a coiled spring, which unfolds again upon heating. 🌡️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/shanghai-tower-serves-as-an-inspiration-for-the-first-synthetic-dynamic-helical-polymer

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #FSE #research #chemistry #polymerscience #syntheticbiology

🔋How do batteries work, and can they be improved?

Scientists at RUG develop batteries that are ✅efficient ✅cheap ✅eco-friendly and they study how to recycle old ones. ♻️

Meet the #batterydevelopers of #FSE in our new 5-part series. Read our introductory piece 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/batterijen/hoe-werken-batterijen-en-kan-dat-ook-beter

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom @universityofgroningen

🪸 ‘Humans are changing the world so quickly that corals can’t keep up anymore.’

Sancia van der Meij, marine biologist at RUG, researches various species inhabiting coral reefs and is deeply concerned for their future.🦀

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/coral-reefs-are-dying-with-major-consequences-for-both-humans-and-wildlife
🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #FSE
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I might be wrong but wordpress block themes seem like a designer nightmare for when one editor starts messing up with all the options available in every block/part/template.

I am used to create classic themes and even creating custom blocks from scratch for them, and although it has some editing constrains, at least the styles/options/blocks play well together and the risk of design fu*kup is quite minimal in comparison to block themes.

#wordpress #blocktheme #gutenberg #fse

Navigation: Ollie Menu Designer

Mit dem Ollie Menu Designer kann man in WordPress ansprechende und responsive Menüs gestalten – inklusive mobiler Menüs und Mega-Menüs. Die Gestaltung erfolgt komplett im Block-Editor. Das Plugin hat bereits für einigen Wirbel gesorgt, weil es als Gamechanger für den Navigation Block angesehen wird. Eine Funktion, auf die User, die Block Themes einsetzen, schon lange warten. Im Beitrag zeige ich, was mit dem Plugin möglich ist.

https://haurand.com/navigation-ollie-menu-designer/

#BlockThemes #FSE #FullSiteEditing #Plugin #sticky #WordPress