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August 25, 2025
Our group had a strong show at the National ACS meeting in DC! Xiaowei and Sam each gave a talk; Fangbei, Yibo, and Camryn each gave a poster; and Yanlin (being the most junior member of this group) learned a lot!
August 13, 2025
If you want to cleave side chains from conjugated polymers at low temperature, you would need to read this @J_A_C_S from Jordan! We even have an equation to help you make the decision!
Acidic Additives Enable Tunable Low Temperature Side Chain Cleavage and Performance Enhancement in Organic Photovoltaics
June 16, 2025
Finally. Our photoredox catalyzed n-type doping came online in @ScienceAdvances!! Congratulations to the DOPE MURI team! There was a story behind and you can learn more from the below. chem.unc.edu/news/study-fin
June 3, 2025
After some waiting, we finally had our student office renovated with new desks and an old couch (sorry, but it is a comfy one!) A better office would mean more and better pubs? We will see!
May 14, 2025
Justin (Dr. Neu!) published another interesting paper that used HSP to tune the solubility of conjugated polymers. More in the pipeline! Collaboration with @HaraldAde lab is always fun and productive!
April 21, 2025
PhD No. 26 – Dr. Justin Neu! He defended his PhD thesis on April 21, 2025!
April 20, 2025
Thanks to @PolymChem, Sam published her fifth (first-authored) paper! And open access, too! If your company is at at RTP and looking for a summer intern, contact her!
Mechanism and modelling of photo-mediated RAFT step-growth polymerization
April 7, 2025
PhD. No. 25 – Dr. Jordan Shanahan! He successfully defended his thesis on April 7, 2025!
March 28, 2025
This work started when Sung Yun was a postdoc with us. It was great that he did more work and now it is!
Random Terpolymerization as a Design Strategy to Modulate Aggregation in NDI-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells | ACS Macro Letters
