2024
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October 30, 2024
Congratulations to Sam and Joji on this nice piece of work on kinetics of RAFT Step-Growth polymerization! Our contribution to the 15th anniversary of @PolymChem!
Mechanism and modelling of thermally initiated RAFT step-growth polymerization
November 24, 2024
Business as usual: Thanksgiving group gathering! This year featured a whole piece of smoked brisket on a brand new pellet smoker (after 12 hours of smoking!), in addition to the delicious turkey. Everyone had fun with their chosen activities!
November 7, 2024
Congrats to Anthony, Justin, and Jiyeon!
Achieving Closed‐Loop Recycling of a Semi‐Conjugated Polymer Through the Incorporation of Ester Linkers Along the Backbone
October 30, 2024
Halloween! We spent lunch time today to carve/paint pumpkins under the warm (hot!) sun of fall season!
October 29, 2024
Hot off the press! This paper is rather unique – it reports 1 million increase of conductivity after doping. It also reports a unique doping method, an idea from Jordan, the first author. It was a team efforts of our DOPE MURI! Congrats to all!
Acid-Triggered Side Chain Cleavage Leads to Doped Conjugated Polymers of High Conductivity
October 4, 2024
Congratulations to Sam, Joji and Jiajia!
Photo‐Mediated RAFT Step‐Growth Polymerization With Diacrylate Monomers: Investigating Versatility and Oxygen Tolerance
September 10, 2024
Another group activity in the books! We had fun at top golf!
August 30, 2024
New semester, new start! We welcome two new postdocs, two new visiting graduate students (from POSTECH) and their advisor, Professor Daesung Chung, to join our lab! Lunch was sponsored by Professor Chung. Next time on me!
August 22, 2024
If you are struggling in making fused ring acceptors, read this beautiful work by Xiaowei. She spent a year or more to come up this general strategy! A must-read!
A general and mild synthetic method for fused-ring electronic acceptors | Science Advances
August 22, 2024
Justin and Anthony did a great job in presenting their works at ACSFall2024. Absolutely deserved a proper dinner!
June 29, 2024
Holden and Jack reported their REU research in the poster session! We will miss you two! Excellent 10 weeks.
June 20, 2024
After five years, Xiaowei successfully defended her PhD thesis today! PhD No. 25 from our group. Congratulations, Xiaowei! She is aiming at academia and she is really good!
June 17, 2024
The proper way to kick off the summer: sand volleyball! More activities are planned for You group & friends! Stay tuned!
June 4, 2024
Thanks to Jordan and Justin, we finally got our dry solvent system set up and running!
April 5, 2024
Camryn received the 2024 NSF GRFP! Way to go Camryn!
April 2, 2024
Camryn passed her 2nd year oral exam! Congratulations!
March 21, 2024
ACS NOLA! We sent three (Xiaowei, Jordan, and Joji) and they looked great!
March 6, 2024
Thanks to RSC, our recent work was given open access! I guess it was too good to miss?! Congrats to Jiajia and all! RAFT step-growth polymerization via the Z-group approach and deconstruction by RAFT interchange – now published in Chemical Science
February 27, 2024
It has become a ritual that we take a group picture every Feb for the upcoming visitation weekends. Here comes the one for 2024!
February 18, 2024
We welcome Professor Inhwan Jung and Mr. Wonjo Jeong from Hanyang University (Korea) to join us for research collaboration!
February 8, 2024
Giant CD! Took us a long time to finish, but great work with @ChoiseEfrc! Thanks to Dr. Yan, a research assistant professor in our lab!
February 8, 2024
First pub from our DOPE MURI! Great collaboration led by Sung-Joo @gingerlabUW
Quantifying Doping Efficiency to Probe the Effects of Nanoscale Morphology and Solvent Swelling in Molecular Doping of Conjugated Polymers | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
