For our second first-year introduction, we're excited to welcome Paul Reiter to the group! Paul comes to us from the Schulz group at Virginia Tech, and is the newest member of #TeamFunctionalMaterials

For our final first-year introduction, we welcome Kyle Lee! Kyle comes to us from Boston College where he worked in the Byers and Niu groups, and is our newest member of #TeamCHfunc.

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Candidate, Lexie! We are so excited to see what you do next!

Check out our newest preprint featuring polyolefin blend compatibilization with an interdisciplinary group of collaborators — the Helms and Ophus groups at LBNL and the Atkin and Alexanian groups at UNC. Eliza Neidhart Helms Research Group Alexanian Lab chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Interested in hearing about stereoconvergent chain-growth polymerization? Swing by the Modern Organic Methods in Polymer Chemistry session at ACS to hear about some awesome work from our post doc, Jake (Jake Jagannathan )! His talk is Sunday 3/23 in room 8 at 10:30 am.

Caleb, a 5th year in our group, will be presenting his work at ACS on "Data driven stereoselective cationic polymerization." Join him for an awesome talk in the Modern Organic Methods in Polymer Chemistry session on 3/23 8:35 am in Room 8!

Interested in hearing about our newest polyolefin blend compatibilization work? Join Eliza (Eliza Neidhart) as she presents her work during the 2025 ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session on Tuesday 3/25 at 8:50 am in the Pacific Ballroom (Section 14)!

Caleb and Jake will be representing our lab today in the Modern Organic Methods in Polymer Chemistry session at ACS! Join them for their talks in Room 8 at 8:35 am and 10:30 am! Jake Jagannathan UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry

Check out recent work in collaboration with the Boudouris and Savoie groups probing spin transfer in oxo-verdazyl non-conjugated radical polymers of differing tacticities! Cole Sorensen Bryan Boudouris Savoie Research Group science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Eliza will be presenting her work on polymer blend compatibilization this morning during the 2025 ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Session! You can join her at 8:50 am in the Pacific Ballroom to hear about this awesome collaborative work! Eliza Neidhart UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry

New ChemRxiv preprint "Design of Tough 3D Printable Elastomers with Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning" Great collaboration with Leibfarth Research #compchem #polymerchem -we use autonomous experiment, AI agents to RLHF to design better materials! #sdl

We're excited to share a preprint of our newest work in collaboration with the Isayev Group using a machine learning approach with targeted human intervention to access new high toughness materials! Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Johann Rapp chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We had a great Saturday at the #UNCScienceExpo this weekend! The awesome volunteers from our group helped teach about polymerizations making bouncy balls and polymer model bracelets!

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. candidate, Lauren! You crushed your orals and we can't wait to see what you do next!

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. candidate in the group, Nick! Looking forward to some radical work in the future!

Check out some exciting new work from the group exploring Rh-catalysis to access asymmetric, isotactic polymers from racemic monomers! Jake Jagannathan ACS Central Science pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations Dr. Johann Rapp on defending! We're very proud of all the work you did in the group and can't wait to see all that you do in your career!

Congratulations on defending, Dr. Eliza Neidhart! We are so proud of you! Your presence will be missed in lab and we're excited for your next career steps! Eliza Neidhart

Welcome to our newest postdoc, Dr. Sam McDonald! She earned her PhD in the Becker group at Duke and loves climbing, knitting, and reading. She will join us on #TeamStereo

Check out our newest work in collaboration with the Isayev group using machine learning in data-poor environments to access high toughness materials! Johann Rapp Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦🇺🇸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…