We @ChBE_Illinois are set to produce ~300/mo airtight, reusable, sanitized Montana masks for donation to Carle and Chicago hospitals! All credits go to our student volunteers and leaders Bijal Patel, Daniel Davies, Prapti Kafle and Zhuang Xu #proud More at publish.illinois.edu/cccovidrelief/

Interesting piece of information 😜🤓

Finished the plant cell wall painting! Cellulose synthase complex in green and cellulose in tan, plus a bunch of other fun stuff. I'll put a full description rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠 when I get a few free moments. Bet you can guess the topic of the Feb Molecule of the Month!

A home-baking scientist who can't go into the lab... 🍞

That's what passion for art and science both look like ❤️. I am deeply in love with David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈's work!!!!

Our review on solvent effects on catalysis at solid-liquid interfaces was published Chem Soc Rev!! We examine how solvent molecules affect the excess energies of reactive species for many reactions and materials. David Potts Daniel Bregante Chris Torres Find it here! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Woho congratulations Paola!!

Our team has cracked upcycling the world's most produced plastic into the second most produced plastic.♻️ The scalable breakthrough reduces carbon emissions.⬇️🏭 News story: bit.ly/3rlm6QG Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) paper: bit.ly/3RpV3OK Original theory: bit.ly/3y5VVRQ

Congrats to David Potts and Vijay (Mironenko group) on our recent ACS Catalysis paper! Combining experiment and computation, we investigated the interplay between confined solvents and increasingly large alkyl chains for alkene epoxidations in zeolites. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Researchers at the Beckman Institute and ChBE Illinois have introduced a greener option for chemical manufacturers. ♻️ Their approach offers an electrochemical solution for recycling homogeneous catalysts ▶️bit.ly/3geCGiJ 📓 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Excited to announce my first publication. Hope it's a fun read and you learn a bit about architecture controlled bottlebrush polymers and understanding its precision during synthesis using a Monte Carlo model! Dylan J. Walsh pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Did you know polar environments in zeolite catalysts favor reactions among hydrophobic reactive species while suppressing pathways of hydrophilic species? Check out this unexpected effect in our work in Chemical Science by David Potts, Chris Torres, and Ohsung.doi.org/10.1039/D2SC06…

Just a glimpse of a fantastic (and exhausting) week at #PolymersGRC with some fantastic people! Time for a looonngggg nap now. #PolymersGRC2023

Inspired by the color-changing ability of chameleons, Beckman Institute researchers developed a sustainable technique to 3D-print multiple, dynamic colors from a single ink. ▶️bit.ly/48hJmlL 🦎🖨️🎨 #Illinois PNASNews

Check out our latest article in PNAS where we report on the fly control of structural color using bottlebrush block copolymers!! Shoutout to an awesome collaboration effort! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Structure color is my childhood fascination. And it is also more sustainable! We realize dynamic printing of color gradients by marrying crosslinkable self-assembling inks with UV-assisted direct ink write, working closely with Guironnet, Sing, Rogers doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Thanks to Forbes for highlighting our work - “Multi-Color Printing With Just One Ink Opens The Door To New Materials” forbes.com/sites/evaamsen… ChBE Illinois @BeckmanInst University of Illinois @SingLabUIUC Simon Rogers

Time for a Change! Change is only constant in the world!