Hi! 👋🏻 I'm Ruth 📍 Location: Seattle, WA 👩🏻‍🔬 What I do: I'm a researcher and communicator working to make the world a better place through safe, sustainable materials chemistry. 🎨 Hobbies: Reading, hiking, making art 📨 Contact me: linkedin.com/in/ruthmaust/; ruthmaust.com

Congrats to our Amazing Dr. Meredith Pomfret! Your firm and determined handshake and scientific chit chats will be missed by me big time😭🎉

In addition to our fun and productive year, and in spirit of the #OLYMPIC2024 the Golder-lites and the The Nelson Lab held the first ever Lab Olympics at UWChemistry! Congrats to our medalists in these challenges! And looking forward to next year 🤩🥇🥈🥉

Wooo fluffy cyclic polymer is out in Chemical Science! Congrats Matthew Elardo adelaide Ana Paula Meredith Pomfret 🎉🎉🎉

This study in nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Check out The Jasti Laboratory latest on strain-promoted reactivity of bent alkynes to make highly fluorescent, pinwheel-like carbon nanostructures, now published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our freshest PhD candidate Matthew Elardo ! Congrats on passing your general exam! Check out our recent Chemical Science paper on cyclic bottle brush polymer lead by Matt! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

#chemtwitter has anyone bought glassware from AliExpress before? The deal looks too good🫣

A 4 neck RBF cost ~$5 on Taobao, and it’s $200+ on Chemglass 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️if quality is dramatically different, is it 40times different?!🥲

I'm surprised you're willing to show your face in public after being a historic failure. You were part of the team who lost to Trump twice! You should be drinking a tall glass of shut up juice right about now. All you did was please your donors and that's what led to the losses!

Hotpot table is a great place for more heated discussion about chemistry and polymer science. Got to see some real time chain extension by the awesome #haidilao noodle masters🤓 First group hotpot was a success! #hotpot

Now free to access for one month: Mechano-photoexcitation for organic synthesis using mechanoluminescent materials as photon sources Article by Xiaohua Xin, Jinxing Geng, Jie Wu, Han Wang & co-workers nature.com/articles/s4416…

The best boy #godawgs (hiding my UO lanyard🤫）

I’m dedicating my first post here to an exciting milestone…My very first first-author paper, now published in ACIE! 🎉 Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an….

With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate and cherished member of Northwestern. His groundbreaking contributions transformed the field of #chemistry and inspired countless scientists worldwide. ➡️ bit.ly/stoddart-in-me…

Gillian's ACS Nano paper presents the use of 2PACz interface modifiers to significantly enhance the brightness of perov quantum dot LEDs. They show suppressed efficiency roll-off at high levels of current & brightness, outperforming traditional HTLs! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share our work (Eunsung Lee) in collaboration with Prof. Tae-Lim Choi's group! Air-stable ruthenium catalysts with tethered CAAC ligands for REMP. A heartfelt thank you to the reviewers and editor for their invaluable advice! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4…

The social media manager does apologize for the over use of the word “here”. 🥶

A delightful welcome to our newest Golder-lite Jason and Adelle! They’re soaring through the busy 1st year grad student life and brewing some cool chemistry in lab! #pictureday #chemistry #gradstudent #chemtwitter

Pretty good week for our group! My dear friend and colleague Maartje put out this study in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Post-Polymerization Modification of Polyethylene through Photochemical Oximation and Consecutive Ketonization | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…