Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks (Stuart J. Rowan and co-workers) UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering UChicago Chemistry Jongwon Oh ⌬ Mike Liu ⌬ Hojin Kim Jerald Hertzog Stuart Rowan #AngewandteVIP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Three years I made this monomer and had to run 3 columns to only isolate 3 mg to do all of the characterizations. Now I could re make 80 mg of it with one column. Getting very good at this project!!

We performed the self-siphoning polymer solution demo in picture 3 (With Sheila Keating in my group not on X)! It was very fun to play with some brilliant kids! UChicago Chemistry UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering

My physics simulation collaborator gets more excited and intrigued than me when I speak to them about my interlocked networks…. But I almost don’t feel excited anymore maybe because I work with my networks everyday and see it too much.

Ok three months later… still waiting for my collaborator data……

Introducing our chemistry to Bachelor and Master students at the UZH Chemistry poster event :) Paula Widmer JuricekLab UZH Science University of Zurich Universität Zürich

I guess my compound hated silica column just like I do. Crushed out immediately out of the column

Textbook racism. Period.

I am at the point where I am very depressed and desperate to publish in my PhD career…

i’m speaking for everyone when i say that drone shows are way better than fireworks

Fraser and my dad share the same date of birth, my dad is just 1 year younger. I spent New Year's Eve with my dad. I just wish Ali and Fiona could have a little more time with Fraser. I am so lucky to have my parents still here with me. Cherish your loved ones every single day 🧡

I pray pls let this be a good film

Happy to share our latest publication on ACS nano in collaboration with Galli group, Argonne National Lab, The University of Chicago MRSEC - Connectivity-Dependent Exciton–Phonon Coupling in Cesium Bismuth Halide Quantum Dots | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… UChicago Chemistry UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Engel Group at UChicago

First complete draft with collaborators data 🥹

Excited for my work to be submitted for publication soon. Still making some tweaks. Spoiler would be slide ring vs entanglement vs covalent crosslinks in the polymer network!

Which of the 3 rings would you pick? :)

Been thinking a lot about my PhD journey. Yeah I complain a lot about how hard it is to make those macrocycles and gels—but honestly? Every time I look at my project, ‘Damn, the structures, the properties are cool. That excitement is what keeps me going when things get rough.

Casually doing a 6g NaH deprotonation reaction.