Sarah Lerch

PhD Chemist | Materials Scientist | currently working at Chalmers University | Baker in my spare time. Any opinions are expressed here are all my own.

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

@British_Airways @AmericanAir Can you explain how you can sell the seats out from under my parents who are coming across the Atlantic to see their first grandchild for the first time? #thatsmessedup #cancelledplans

[Kasper Moth-Poulsen @KMothPoulsen]

Super excited to finally being able to share this story, in @acsnano

https://t.co/mNuHm5sht1

In this work, we (@smlerch) synthesised nanoparticles of different size and shape, and assembled individual particles in individual nanochannels to study their catalytic activity.

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

@Shima__Ghasemi @chalmersuniv Beautiful 😍 congratulations!

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Webb’s first full-color images are now the world’s to enjoy! We hope you found them as meaningful and beautiful as we did. Here’s to many years of Webb science — we can’t wait to see what’s next as we continue to #UnfoldtheUniverse! https://t.co/deO8TFCkiz

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking is a classic…New York style cheesecake! I always love making this and decorating it ☺️ #baking #cheesecake #raspberries

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking was mini lemon meringue pies! Other than some minor sticking to the pan, these turned out absolutely perfectly. I am quite pleased ☺️ The meringue was a little fluffier immediately after baking but no weeping meringue is a huge success! #baking #lemonmeringue

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking challenge was Pastéis de Nata, a Portuguese egg custard tart. ☺️ Now waiting to see if my Portuguese friends at work enjoy them!

#baking #eggcustardtart #pastéisdenata

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

@axelolesund Same!

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

Very excited to be joining @NanoScientifica

[NanoScientifica Scandinavia @NanoScientifica]

We have a new team member, Dr. Sarah Lerch
Sarah holds a PhD in Chemistry from Boston University, with a focus on materials chemistry and specifically nanoparticle synthesis and application.

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

Fall baking 🍁🍁🍁 this week’s bake was a pumpkin spice cheesecake with salted caramel sauce 😊 it might be better than pumpkin pie 😯 also featuring some of the beautiful fall colors in the neighborhood! #baking #pumpkin #cheesecake #fallleaves🍁🍂

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking was a fairly simple family recipe…Mocha Truffle Cookies. Always delicious #baking #cookies

[Kasper Moth-Poulsen @KMothPoulsen]

Alloyed #Nanoparticles can be challenging to synthesise. Here we show a simple synthesis where the high viscosity of the solvent is used to make AuPd #particles with controlled composition.
@ACS_AMI @SMLerch

https://t.co/dyABojWfOn

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

Back to our regularly scheduled baking! Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting!

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

First week in NY included baking chocolate macarons, beautiful plants in my parents’ gardens and a walk along the Hudson River.

This week is supposed to be miserably hot, so wish me luck! Hopefully not too hot that the power goes out 🤞🤞

#chocolatemacarons #hudsonriver

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

Rhubarb cheesecake to start the summer! Plus a bonus strawberry cake from the defense BBQ for a friend (And a picture of me with the cake, thanks to @Shima27377052 ☺️)

#rhubarbcheesecake #strawberrycake #strawberryseason

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

@KMothPoulsen Advice is always appreciated ☺️ I know the technique but probably just need the right recipe and lots of practice

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking was Rhubarb Orange Profiteroles…

I’m a little disappointed in these. The orange flavor strongly overpowers the rhubarb and the choux pastry is not quite right yet 😅

#baking #profiteroles #chouxpastry #rhubarborange

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

A beautiful fluorescent compound in @KMothPoulsen lab today from @Shima27377052 for #FluorescenceFriday

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This week’s baking was a bit of a failure. I tried to make a lemon raspberry cake but the the cake both spilled out of the pan and stuck badly, so I turned it into lemon raspberry cake balls. Also included: pictures from last week, a much more successful chocolate almond cake.

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

@ZaferSay I did use less dough per cookie than recommended...but the recommended amount would have made cake-sized cookies, which was not what was pictured 😂

[Sarah Lerch @SMLerch]

This weekend I made chocolate chip cookies...with a 285% yield compared to the recipe! It was supposed to make 20 cookies but we ended up with 57 baked cookies (plus some raw cookie dough) #baking #chocolatechipcookies