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New paper alert!👀🤩

Our latest work is now available in Chemical Communications! We studied the synthesis and optoelectronic properties of radical conjugated polyfluorenes (in collaboration with Mark W.B Wilson). Check it out at pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

3 years, 1 pandemic, and many lockdowns later, I am excited to announce that my very first first-author publication is now online! Huge thank you to my co-authors for their help and support along the way :) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our sticker campaign is returning for the 2022-2023 year! Portion of proceeds this year will be donated to charity. Our sticker campaign last year raised ~$1200 for The 519! Check out wicto.ca/events/upcomin… for more information.

We're excited to announce WICTO Symposium: Connecting through Chemistry! This is our first FREE full-day professional development event on Nov 19th that is open to all graduate students, undergraduate students, post-docs, faculty, and staff across all three UofT campuses.

Mark your calendars for WICTO's first FREE professional development event on Nov 19th! Look forward to meeting recent chemistry UofT graduate alumni in an interactive Q&A panel regarding their career trajectories. Register before Nov. 5th: tinyurl.com/wictosymposium

We are excited to announce that our first seminar series speaker of the year (co-hosted with GreenChemInitiative) is Ashlee Howarth! Come see her talk in-person on Nov. 17th at 1pm (or email [email protected] for zoom link) and sign up for a roundtable discussion: tinyurl.com/gciwictotalk

Just out in ACS Macro Journals! We use post-polymerization modification to synthesize well-defined catechol homopolymers with differing backbone architectures. This protocol is also quantitative in the gel state, allowing us to form insoluble networks. pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Our first seminar talk co-hosted with GreenChemInitiative is done - a massive thank you to Ashlee Howarth for coming to speak! It was a fantastic talk and an engaging round table discussion afterwards.

Our first symposium is complete! Now for some highlights of the event: The symposium kicked off with a warm welcome from our wonderful WICTO co-presidents Azalea Uva and Alicia Battaglia! Grad student flash talks - thank you to all who presented their amazing research.

Looking forward to #CSC2023 next week! Come check out the group's talks on polymers for energy storage, degradation, and organic modification!

Interested in learning more about organic batteries? Come check out the talks by Dwight and Alicia this afternoon in the Polymers for Electrochemical Energy Storage/Conversion Symposium (west meeting room 116 & 117, 2-3 pm) 🔋🪫

Had so much fun at the Women in Chemistry & Friends Dinner tonight with my fellow colleagues from Chemistry at UofT #CSC2023

Thank you to Christine Le and Marc Adler for organizing the Organic Chemistry in 2023 - Showcasing the Diversity of People and Pursuits and for allowing Working towards Inclusivity in Chemistry Toronto to chair one of the sessions. #CSC2023

Congratulations to Alicia Battaglia, whose talk was selected as one of the top three Outstanding Oral Presentations in the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division at #CSC2023 in Vancouver. Way to go Alicia!

The 2023 cohort of the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy is an amazing, talented, diverse, and enthusiastic group. It's been a fun and educational week and we can't wait to see what they will do next! Learn more about the program: fal.cn/3zXxd

In light of the theatrical releases, my reaction started out as Barbie and ended in Oppenheimer 💁‍♀️ #realtimechem #BarbieMovie    #OppenheimerMovie

New paper out in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! We synthesized a series of viologen polymers and studied them as cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries. We found that the choice of polymer backbone significantly influences the performance and charge storage mechanism surl.li/liyfu

Just out in Chemistry of Materials! We found that sulfonamide-containing materials are promising candidates as binders and that dimensionality is a key parameter for their use in lithium-ion batteries. Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share our latest paper in Small! We explore the use of catechol polymers as binder replacements for PVDF in organic cathodes, and also investigate how the polymer backbone structure influences its binding abilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm…