Sam Hein travelled back to Cornell and defended his thesis on April 14th, 2017 titled “The Synthesis o Naphthalene Containing Compounds and Materials using Benzannulation Reactions.” Congratulations Sam!…

A new grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to the Dichtel (Northwestern) and Marinas (Univerisity of Illinois) research groups. The Grant titled “A Game-Changing Approach for Tunable Membrane Development: Novel Covalent Organic Framework Active Layers Supported by Solvent Resistant Materials” is a joint effort between the two universities.…

Catherine Mulzer, a recent alum of the Dichtel research group, has received the 2017 DSM Science and Technology Award. The Award recognizes her discovery of redox-active Covalent Organic Frameworks as a technology platform for energy storage. This new advancement has led to achieving extremely high capacitance and fast charging rates for electrochemical energy storage devices.…

A new article is featured on the cover of ACS Central Science for Ryan Bisbey’s Perspective titled Covalent Organic Frameworks as a Platform for Multidimensional Polymerization. The issue has three coordinated perspectives on porous materials – one from our group, one from Mircea Dinca, and one from Andy Cooper.…

Will has been awarded the 2017 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award from the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society. The Award is given in recognition of accomplishments in pure or applied chemistry to an American chemist under the age of forty as characterized by their initiative, creativeness, leadership, and perseverance.…

The recent article β-Cyclodextrin Polymer Network Sequesters Perfluorooctanoic Acid at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, has been making waves both nationally and internationally. In less than a month the article has been highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News, Nature and Science News.…

Chao Sun has been awarded the 2017 RIKEN prize for his poster titled ‘Discovering supramolecular adhesives for atomic membranes’ at the 2017 Self-assembly & Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Switzerland. Six awardees were selected from the 144 posters and 200 individuals who attended from all across the world.…

John Colson receives the 2017 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry. The purpose of this Award is to recognize a graduate student or recent graduate who has completed an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. John graduated with his PhD in 2014 and is currently working at ClostraBio, inc.…

The recent paper Colloidal Covalent Organic Frameworks which was published in ACS Central Science was recently highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.…

Austin Evans, Nathan Flanders and Rebecca Li join the research group as incoming first year graduate students!…