Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Wonjin Choi. His thesis on Teraherttz Circular Dichroism (TCD) spectroscopy for nanostructured biomaterials was a tour de force in the new field. Keep it going, Wonjin!

The Little Prince. SEM art by Dr. Wonjin Choi inspired by the book of A. de Saint-Exupéry. Self-assembled nanofibers from lobster claw.

Congratulations to Wonjin Choi! He won yesterday the Engineering Innovation Award for developing kirigami optics for terahertz circular dichroism (TCD) spectroscopy. Cool and inspiring work, Wonjin! More on THz chiral phonons in biomaterials and nanostructures is coming soon.

Need a postdoc to study THz-active chiral bio and nanomaterials with THz emission and absorption. Experience electro-optic sampling, THz generation using ultrafast lasers is a plus. Duties include design, construction, experiments with THz circular dichroism and other methods.”

It’s the Earth Day - Celebrate! Plant a tree, reduce CO2.

Sunset like this blow away all the stress of the day. Academic Chatter™

Jessica, Kody W. infusing the pumpkin with Kotov lab spirit. #Halloween Academic Chatter™ We need an enantiomorphic pair of this pumpkin now.

From this week's covers: 🦔 Complex hedgehog particles self-assemble from #nanoparticles due to electrostatically restricted self-organization. Michigan Chemical Engineering Kotov Group 🇺🇦 Sharon Glotzer Lanqin Tang  Read the article: fal.cn/3kiGs

As the recipient of the David Turnbull Lectureship, today U-M ChE's Nicholas Kotov (of Kotov Group 🇺🇦) presented “Nanoscale Biomimetics: From Self-Assembled Nanocomposites to Chiral Nanostructures” at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting. Read more here: myumi.ch/3k3b2

Our paper "Enantiomer-dependent immunological response to chiral nanoparticles" has just been published in Nature (disq.us/t/44i8998)! Left-handed gold nanoparticles enhance immunological response to vaccines and increase their efficacy.

Our Nature Photonics paper with Kotov Group 🇺🇦 Wonjin Choi Felippe Colombari on measuring the THz dichroism to analyze biocristals in dietary supplements or in the diagnosis of diseases such as kidney stones, Alzheimer's or diabetes. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Wonjin! Chiral phonons in biological (nano)structures can be observed now by terahertz circular dichroism (TCD). Even amyloid nanofibers from insulin have them! nature.com/articles/s4156…

U-M ChE's Nicholas Kotov (of Kotov Group 🇺🇦) has received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from the American Chemical Society (American Chemical Society) che.engin.umich.edu/2022/03/25/nic…

We are very happy to be on the cover of Nature Photonics this month! nature.com/nphoton/volume…

Polarization rotation in THz rang is super strong! Here is the review on the new chiroptical spectroscopy that makes possible seeing chiral phonons and testing drug chirality. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Join us LIVE tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT for a special announcement and press conference regarding a MAJOR scientific breakthrough. Remarks will be given by U.S. Department of Energy leaders Secretary Jennifer Granholm, NNSA’ NNSA Administrator and #LLNL Director Kim Budil. Tune in: energy.gov/livestream

On Dec. 5, 2022, a team at LLNL's National Ignition Facility conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to achieve fusion ignition. Also known as scientific energy breakeven, the experiment produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.

Congrats to Prof. Nicholas Kotov Kotov Group 🇺🇦, the recipient of ChE's Outstanding Faculty Award for 2022! This award is given annually by each department in the College of Michigan Engineering to express gratitude to a faculty member for achieving something outstanding in their work.

Our work on a highly efficient exogenous drug–agnostic chiral graphene quantum dot sEV-loading platform is featured as the Supplementary Cover Art of ACS Nano: "Chiral Graphene" (10.1021/acsnano.3c00305) ACS for Authors #MyACSCover Chang Lab Notre Dame Engineering

Here comes new paper about kirigami photopiezo catalyst! It can be modulated by motions of winds, waves, and life vibrations. Kirigami Photopiezo Catalysts for Self-Sustainable Environment Remediation | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…