Welcome to NSF REU students Areon Smith (Jackson State University) and Erika Stopler (SUNY Oneonta), who will be joining us for the summer!
Author: Scott
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.
Lasith Kariyawasam joins group
New graduate student Lasith Kariyawasam has joined the group. Welcome Lasith!
Sam Hudson joins group
Sam Hudson (junior Chemical Engineering major) has joined the group. Welcome!