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New publication from Simona Fine and SPIn Lab is now out in ACS Macro Journals Biomacromolecules ! We elucidate how polymer chain mobility affects cholesteric liquid crystal self-assembly kinetics and optical properties. doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

And our latest publication by Simona Fine made the supplemental cover of ACS Macro Journals Biomacromolecules! Simona designed and executed this cover herself ! Learn more about this work: doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

Happy Qualloween, Simona! (and shoutout to Cécile for the heavy pours🥂) Today, we’re celebrating our first student in the group passing her qualification exam, just in time for the holidays 🎃

It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all Robotic Matter Lab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, Kamat Lab, Simona Fine and SPIn Lab for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!

Congratulations to Northwestern Engineering materials scientist Cécile Chazot, who received an U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Early Career Program Award. The honor recognizes "outstanding scientists beginning their independent careers." bit.ly/4gIlqfC

Congratulations to Tianna (co-advised by Jeffrey Lopez in Lopez Lab @NU 🔋) on passing her qualifying exam and becoming a PhD Candidate!💐

Earlier this week, Isabelle and Sara presented their exciting work at the NU-MRSEC Annual Meeting📈 Congrats on another successful year for NU-MRSEC!

SPIn Lab featured in the new NU MSE department video😎 Oscars 2026, here we come youtu.be/MVEofdbSzdU?fe…

A quick update from the woman behind the curtain: I passed my qualifying exam and master’s defense! Happy pi day🥧

my first trip to Seattle for #S25MRS has been a blast so far and I'm thrilled to be presenting my work on structurally-colored alternatives to plastic tomorrow (9:15-9:30 am, SU02.08.03)

Congratulations to Sara on passing her qualifying exam and master’s defense🧪🧫 We’re so proud of you!

Grazie mille for a wonderful time in Bertinoro, Italy at #EUPOC MacroLight! Thanks for making my first conference talk such a positive experience, and I hope to see everyone again soon 🇮🇹🍫

This week, SPIn Lab traveled to Italy to present our work on polysaccharide-based liquid crystals at the #EUPOC MacroLight conference🌈🔦 Thank you to the organizers and attendees for all of the great discussions!

We’re so proud of Charmaine for presenting her work on tunable, structurally-colored films at the 2025 Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition🪲🦋 As the spring quarter wraps up, we’d like to thank our wonderful undergrads for all of their hard work🫶 Have a great summer!

new paper alert! here, we study how controlling the polymerization kinetics of ethyl cellulose-poly(acrylic acid) composites allows for tunable structural color. we envision our materials as a replacement for traditionally-colored plastics SPIn Lab advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…