Group News

  • Areon Smith and Erika Stopler join group

    Welcome to NSF REU students Areon Smith (Jackson State University) and Erika Stopler (SUNY Oneonta), who will be joining us for the summer!


  • NSF grant renewed

    The NSF is continuing to fund our work on ortho-phenylene foldamers. Many thanks! Support from the NSF has been the foundation of our research.


  • Aditya Singh joins group

    Welcome Aditya!


  • New paper in Acc. Chem. Res.

    Scott’s published a review on the folding of ortho-phenylenes (focused mostly on our own work).


  • New paper in J. Phys. Chem. B

    Our latest paper is out in J. Phys. Chem. B! This work, a collaboration with the Kumar group (Kent State, Physics), describes new sanidic liquid crystal phases for a series of dibenzonaphthacenes we prepared.


  • Alexis Knight joins group

    Welcome to Alexis Knight, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.


  • Rathiesh Pandian joins group

    Welcome Rathiesh!


  • New paper in J. Chem. Educ.

    Our latest paper is out in J. Chem. Educ.! A collaboration with the Bretz group, it describes a sophomore organic lab activity that uses cholesteric liquid crystals to macroscopically distinguish enantiomers. It’s a lot of fun and doesn’t need any specialized equipment.