Mug painting and Secret Santa!
We held our annual post-holiday group party, decorating mugs at Artica Studios in Norris, exchanging Secret Santa gifts (most-guessed members: Jonathan and Jolly), and eating Peppercorns. It turns out there […]
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Welcome Callie!
Callie Goins joins the lab as a first-year student, jointly advised by Prof. Hersam. She will work on mixed conductors as part of the NU MRSEC. Welcome to the group!
Goodbye, Steven!
Steven departs for a Senior Scientist I position in Process Chemistry at AbbVie in North Chicago. We’ll miss his enthusiasm, support, and Taylor Swift fandom!
Congratulations Jolly on a SOAR Grant!
Jolly is a runner-up in the Science Olympiad Alumni Research Grant. Read more about her here!
Ian’s paper is published!
Check out Ian’s new paper “Degradable Melamine-Based Adhesives Using Dynamic Silyl Ether Bonds” in ACS Applied Polymer Materials! It’s part of the “Keeping Carbon from Plastics in Play” virtual forum. […]
Welcome summer researchers!
We welcome Northwestern undergraduates Sarah, Shoki, and Hailey (supported by a NU SURG, CLP summer scholar award, and Posner fellowship, respectively) and MONET visiting researcher Twila, who attends the College […]
Meet our new lab stars!
Jolly was selected as Lab Citizen Star by the group, and Daniel was nominated Lab Safety Star by our safety officer. Thank you both for your great work!
Congratulations Dr. Pierce!
Ian defends his thesis, “Incorporating dynamic bonds for tunable and degradable thermosets”. Next, he is off to PPG to become a Research Chemist in the Liquid Protective Coatings division. Congratulations!!
Qualifying exams: passed!
Congratulations to our second-year graduate students, Emmanuel and Ethan, who both passed their qualifying exams!
New paper online at ACS Macro Letters!
Vivian, Joe, Carrie, and Christina worked with the Kulik lab at MIT to accelerate stress relaxation in associative thioester hydrogels using internal catalysis. Check it out in ACS Macro Letters!