Our postdoc Maryam Alsufyani also got highlighted a few days ago as a recipient of the prestigious MIT IBK Research Award for her proposal "Detection of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Water using Turn-ON Fluorescent Dyes." We are so proud of her! ibk.mit.edu/news/dr-mary...
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Next, we welcome our new visiting graduate student, Andrea Minaya, from @ethz.ch! She earned her undergrad degree in MechE, developing NO2 sensors based on carbon nanotubes. Prior to joining our lab, she spent an exchange year @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and interned at Porsche & 8inks. Welcome!
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It's August 8, a palindrome day (8/8 = 100%!!!), a great time to welcome some new lab members! First, we welcome back our postdoc Nathan after a six-month tenure working with our former alumni, Prof. Grace Han. Nathan will conduct some great work in a cool project - stay tuned!
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... graduate students Rina and Jennifer, and our logistics master Brian! We look forward to seeing Charles's journey after his tenure in the lab and wish him all the best in his future career!
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π: In this month's @mitchemistry.bsky.social Graduate Student Spotlight, Jennifer talks about the most amazing sunset she's ever seen, the activities she'd take on if she didn't have to sleep, the image that makes her laugh no matter how often she sees it, and more: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-ne...
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With the vision of Rising Together: Amplifying our Ecosystem of STEM Excellence, the Department of Chemistry and
@northeasternu.bsky.social were pleased to welcome over 80 participants from over 20 colleges to the 2025 NOBCChE Collaborative last month.
chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-ne...
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: In the meantime, our now great alumni @michaelocheje.bsky.social also served as a judge for the poster competition and a speaker at the career panel for the event. What a wonderful chance to contribute to advancing science to everyone π§ͺπ
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: Our superstar graduate student Collette recently won the first prize poster award in the 2025 NOBCChE Collaborative! Tim also serves as a faculty liaison for @mitchemistry.bsky.social and supported with co-hosting the event at MIT and @northeasternu.bsky.social. Bravo! (1/2)
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Reunion with our former lab member Paulina in @mitchemistry.bsky.social Organic Retreat and the week after at ISN! It was great to hear about what you accomplished following your journey in the group with our current members, including the current graduate students and postdocs!
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We gathered earlier today for a farewell party for @michaelocheje.bsky.social and Alik! Listening to their words was quite an emotional moment for everyone. We hope that you two will succeed in your career following your tenure in the group, and hopefully the nice gifts remind you all of us! πππ
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Second (and the last!) poster today from the group in 2025 @mitchemistry.bsky.social Organic Retreat comes from our synthetic expert Ashton! This will not last for long, so come talk to him before the windy day wraps up (have you seen this poster before though...?)!
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Our postdoc Chi-Hsien with her distinguished poster as the next presenter for our group in 2025 @mitchemistry.bsky.social Organic Retreat! We still have more science to share with you all throughout the day!
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Right now at 2025 @mitchemistry.bsky.social Organic Retreat: Collette is kicking off for our lab for the series of presentations today! We look forward to hearing more about PFAS and her research very much πππ
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Organic Retreat 2025 β MIT Chemistry Organic Retreat
Guess who forgot to post... Finally, the annual Organic Retreat is held this Friday! Collette will give a podium presentation while Ashton and our postdoc Chi-Hsien will present their posters there. More information is available at organicretreat.mit.edu/2025-event/. Many thanks to the organizers!
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Secondly, we continue our streak of having a new paper and a lab member! Charles Jackson, an undergraduate from
@tamu.bsky.social, recently joined our lab as an MSRP intern and will work with Georgios for the summer. He will bring his knowledge about biosensing with small molecules. A warm welcome!
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Good Tuesday starts with a paper! First, our postdoc Georgios introduces wavelength-orthogonally reversible photochemistry to interfacial photopolymerizations, demonstrating that the dynamic interplay of two wavelengths enables photoinduced error correction. Congrats! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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ππ¨: 5 minutes to the first match of the season for the π¦'s! The match will be held in just a few minutes on the lawn near the MIT Media Lab building E14. Good luck to the team!!!
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New paper comes with a new lab member! We welcome Hayeon Kim, an exchange Ph.D. student from Dr. Heetae Jung in the CBE Department at KAIST. Her research focuses on the metal oxide nanopatterning for gas sensor applications, and we are thrilled to see great science during her time here. Big welcome!
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PolyPal: A Python Package for Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Amorphous Polymers
Easily tunable and processable, porous organic polymers (POPs) have found increasing utility in various applications. Molecular modeling and simulations are invaluable tools in polymer science but remain under-reported in the POP literature. Accurate modeling and simulation of these materials could boost the discovery of high-performance POPs and allow for a more thorough contribution to big data. These polymers contain free volume-promoting structural units, such as iptycenes, and exhibit high glass-transition temperatures, excellent thermal stability, and tunable functionality. However, popular transferable force fields utilized in all-atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are not fully parametrized for intrinsically porous thermoplastic materials. We present a streamlined workflow for all-atomistic MD simulations of nonporous and porous amorphous polymer materials. In conjunction with the programs ORCA, Q-Force, Assemble!, and GROMACS, a highly accessible methodology is established for force field (FF) parametrization, creation of initial configurations, and simulation of various nonporous and porous polymers. This protocol can reproduce experimental bulk densities and fractional free volume values for amorphous polymeric materials with excellent accuracy and has been made available as a Python package, called PolyPal. As an example, we present our results using PolyPal on a series of nonporous and porous polymers that were previously synthesized and experimentally characterized. FF accuracy was also validated through solid-state NMR studies. These simulations will not only open new avenues for the rational design of high-performance POPs through the contribution of improved insight but also provide a streamlined pathway for simulating previously unexplored porous polymeric materials.
π¦π€²: Happy Friday! Our 5th year rising star Molly recently introduced a new programming platform, PolyPal, where POPs can be simulated more accurately while being user-friendly. You can access the program via her GitHub here github.com/warndorf/pol... and read more at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...!
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Challenge for you all: Spot our graduates in this picture π
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π§βπ: While we have two Ph.D. graduates recently, another two undergraduates come to our lab! Mayar is an undergraduate student at USC and a member of the KAUST Gifted Student Program, while KiΓͺn is a rising senior double majoring in 6-7 and 8 at MIT. Welcome all to the group!
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πβΌοΈ Two newly minted Ph.D.'s for a memorable day in our lab! Many congratulations to Dr. Feng and Dr. Yuan for their hard work and dedication in the past years, and we are so excited for their graduation and future ahead! πΈ: Another in-house Dr., @lennonluo.bsky.social!
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π£: Our brand new group photo in front of the Killian Court is here! We had an amazing gathering preceding and following the πΈ time. The weather last week was beautiful too, not to mention the amazing group members π₯° Many thanks to Francesca & @lehoangminh.bsky.social for editing this! Happy summer!
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Are you excited for the new group photo? We are! However, let us introduce the newest group member first, Dr. Ming Hu! He comes from Hubei, China and earned his B.S. and Ph.D. in 2017 and 2022, respectively. You can read more about him on our website. Welcome to the lab, Dr. Hu!
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Group dinner yesterday in the historic Moore room with Collette as the main director of the organizing committee with the other superb third-year students, Ashton, Thomas, and Zhewen! New group photo coming to you soon ;) Stay tuned!
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Barn Babies afternoon organized by @mitchemistry.bsky.social! Here is some of their energy to help brighten your day!
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Come see our superb chemists presenting in MIT Polymer Day now! Session A is currently running with postdoc Maryamβs poster #2 and graduate student Ashtonβs poster #16! Session B will be happening in an hour with postdoc Alikβs poster #28. More polymers, more fun for the day!!!
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Organic, polymer, and catalysis research group working with Geoff Coates at Cornell University
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PhD Candidate at MIT Chemistry working with Prof. Laura Kiessling. I'm studying the cell wall organization of mycobacteria.
first name Minh, pronounced as /Ming/.
Cornell β24 (@runofthephill.bsky.social β22, π§ͺ @songlin1.bsky.social β24) | @mitchemistry.bsky.social Ph.D. student at @swagergroup.bsky.social, π¨βπ³ @isn.mit.edu
Scientist at University of Manchester. Mechanochemistry & single-molecule manipulation of artificial molecular machinery. #NanocarRaceII champion. Trust me, I am a chemist. #ChemSky
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Chemistry Professor at Dartmouth. Into adaptive materials using tiny switches and machines
Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology research group. Stuart holds the Michael & Alice Jung Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery @ UCLA (@uclacb.bsky.social).
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