So I'm super late with this but I was very happy to present my research at #2023ndistem conference in Portland. I networked with many national labs it was a great experience and wonderful to see the expansion of diversity in STEM thanks to #sacnas

Very happy to finally see in print Chemistry of Materials one of the more adventurous projects my group: growing and characterizing a well-defined single chain of a quasi-1D van der Waals crystal within a carbon nanotube! UCI Chemistry (1/2)

Congratulations Maxx! 🎊🎉🎉

Congratulations Rain! 🎉🎉

Excited for this to be out now Soft Matter ! We discovered that liquid-liquid phase separation can induce confining effects on block copolymers yielding unique "confined" morphologies! Read more here. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Academia be like

The H in academia stands for happiness

Academia is strange. Get enough publications in the right journals and you'll be allowed to lead a team. No one checks whether you have the skills to lead a team, of course, why would they? You've published in journals. This should work out just fine.

Profs. Joe Patterson & Zibin Guan w/Paul Hurst, Justin Mulvey, Serxho Selmani & Redford Judson recently published their work on applied cryogenic transmission #electron #microscopy (cryoEM) in Chemical Science. Congrats! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

It's hard being an international student.

I am happy to report on my last first author paper from my PhD. Here we merge photoiniferter and ring-opening polymerization with PISA to readily synthesize block copolymer nanorods. UCI Chemistry Brent Sumerlin #polymers #cryoEM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Congratulations Paul!

Science is not a career. Science is lifestyle because you might think you are on a road trip with your family, but actually you are thinking about that one research paper that had mind boggling results and that one experiment you didn't understand at the time.

Excited to share our work, now appearing in J. Am. Chem. Soc., on the synthesis of an all-inorganic 1D van der Waals helical crystal that is non-centrosymmetric and displays an unusual “squircular” (it’s a real word!) tetrahelix cross-section UCI Chemistry (1/3) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

Great work Elisa!

Congratulations Elisa! 🎊 Making Patterson lab proud 💪🙌

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our recent work on the synthesis of an unusual all-inorganic helical material out now in Nature Materials! UCI Chemistry UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences

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