Thank you U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory for supporting my Zhukhovitskiy Group research on sigmatropic rearrangements of polymer backbones!

We'd like to welcome Isabella, an undergrad at UNC, to the group! Fun fact - Isabella is a member of the UNC fencing team.

A wonderful editorial contributed to by Hilary (Hilary Fokwa) in honor of Juneteenth. Check it out!

We will be missing Rachael (Rachael Ditzler) for 12 weeks while she's off at an internship at Procter & Gamble. Best of luck!

Congrats to Maxim (Maxim09) who has recently departed the group for a job at Syngenta! You will be greatly missed!

Thank you Nature Reviews Chemistry for featuring our review article on the cover of the September 2023 issue! Check it out here: nature.com/natrevchem/vol… Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy Rachael Ditzler Andrew King Maxim09 UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry

Congrats to Andrew (Andrew King) for being selected for the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium!

Congrats to Andrew King and thanks to our amazing collaborators @TomsonLab!!

Congrats to Elias Arroyo, a undergraduate student in our lab, for being awarded UNC Chemistry's Stern Award!

Warm welcome to our newest lab member, Mark Jareczek! Mark joins us from Washington University in St. Louis. In his free time, Mark enjoys hiking and Pokemon!

Want to learn more about hetero-ene metathesis? Check out our perspective in ACS Catalysis here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Drake Johnson Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy

Congratulations Abby Knight, Knight Group UNC, Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy and Zhukhovitskiy Group!

Congratulations Dr. Ditzler Rachael Ditzler, the first PhD from our group!

Congratulations to Dr. King and Dr. Johnson for successfully defending their thesis this week! Andrew King Drake Johnson

Check out Dr. Wang's latest work on templating entanglements in polymer elastomers! Fu-Sheng Wang

Excited to share this collaborative work with the Ian Tonks group, led by a powerhouse duo Rachael Ditzler and Rachel Rapagnani. We demonstrated architectural editing of polyester and polyurethane backbones through Pd-catalyzed 3,3-rearrangements pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our 2nd installment on templated entanglements—this time in gels! This work was led by a team of outstanding Zhukhovitskiy Group students Erin Krist and Ben Kruse (Erin Krist and Benjamin Kruse) with help from John Dickenson in Meyer Group. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Alex gave a wonderful faculty presentation yesterday!

Forget R2-D2, we have a new PhD! Congratulations Dr. Kruse! Benjamin Kruse Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy