Milner Group at Cornell University
@RunOfThePhill
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New chemistry research group at Cornell University, working on organic, inorganic, and materials chemistry (so, basically everything).
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Check out our most recent work in
@ScienceMagazine
! We unlock new reactivity of several fluorinated gases for drug discovery, enabled by metal-organic frameworks!
#MOFganicChem
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Can’t get more official than this.
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We are looking for a postdoc with experience in organic synthesis, catalysis, and/or organometallics to work on our NIH-funded project to develop MOFs in organic chemistry! No experience making MOFs is required! Email Phill (pjm347
@cornell
.edu) if interested and please retweet!😀
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We are beyond excited, humbled, and thrilled to announce that our group's NSF CAREER award has been recommended for funding! Can't wait to see what 2021 has in store!!! 😄😂😄
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Mary's paper on CO2 capture in cyclodextrin MOFs is now out in
@angew_chem
! This work supports that encapsulating OH-/HCO3- sites in porous solids represents a promising direction for CO2 capture. Congrats to Mary, Suzi,
@alexforse1
, and
@jhlee_david
!
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Grateful, humbled, and excited to announce that PJM has been promoted to associate professor with tenure (effective July 1st)! This honor truly belongs to the PhD students, post-docs, undergraduates, and visiting scientists who have called our group home since 2018.🍾
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We are incredibly humbled and thrilled to announce that our group has received a DOE Early Career Research Award!!!
@ENERGY
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We are beyond humbled and grateful that our lab has been recognized with this award! This one goes out to all group members past and present who have made our lab an amazing place for the last 5 years 🥂
Congratulations to Dr. Phillip Milner,
@Cornell
, for being named a 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
@RunOfThePhill
@CornellChem
#DreyfusAwards
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Our work with the Twitter-less Musser lab is now out in
@J_A_C_S
! Congrats to our post-doc Arjun (who joined us from
@banerjee_r
) and collaborators
@MattAddicoat
@oktawiec
@JJ_FR_10
!
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As part of our ongoing quest to find better ways to make MOFs for organic chemistry and chemical separations, 3rd year Tyler has found that simply combining metal (hydrate) salts and MOF linkers together at high temperatures is a surprisingly general way to make MOFs!
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Happy news en route to Telluride for a meeting about porous materials - Ron's (
@RonnyJ48
) work about high-concentration MOF synthesis is now out in
@J_A_C_S
! Congrats to the authors, including Tristan and
@CornellChem
's crystallographer Sam.
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What happens when you ask an organic chemist to make a MOF? A super straightforward method for MOF synthesis! Metal salt + linker + organic base + grinding = MOF. Congratulations to our 3 undergraduate (!) co-authors Tony, Frank, and Marcus!
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Out now in
@Nature
: we were so excited to participate in a team effort led by the one and only
@alexforse1
on studying direct air capture in charged sorbent materials! Congrats to all of the co-authors, including the Cornell team (Mary and Alexandra)!
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Our group’s first ever PhD graduate, Mary Zick, is officially PhDone! Congratulations Mary on a fantastic 5 years in the group! Mary is off to do a postdoc at Purdue starting this fall! Keep an eye out for her on the job market in a few years!🥂🎉🎊🎈
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3rd year Yihuan rocked the house at her Departmental seminar yesterday about her recent paper in
@angew_chem
on organic electrosynthesis! ⚡️ 🍖 🔥
Check it out here:
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Check out our new guide about the robustness of MOFs in organic synthesis, from visiting student Zihao, undergraduate Arvin, second year Ron, and first year Tristan! The SI alone has over 500 PXRDs and 220 Figures?! O.O
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PJM: “Ass prof” lunch to celebrate… it being lunchtime! Selfie courtesy of
@brett_fors
with cameos by
@nozomi_ando
@basktastic
@LancasterLabCU
@JWilsonLab
@songlin_chem
@stache_lab
@HysterLab
! (Wishing
@Abbasov_Cornell
Andrew Rob and Nandini could have made it!)
@CornellChem
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Second-year Emily has received an NSF GRFP! Congratulations Emily! 🪨⭐️🤘
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It’s online! Look what happens when a MOF, an organic chemist, and a cylinder of Cl2 walk into a bar. (Not bad for a project that basically started as a dare between PJM, Ruth, and Tyler!). Thanks
@jhlee_david
for the sweet collaboration!🔥🔥(literally)
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Check out our new preprint, in which we bring the worlds of organic chemistry and MOFs together! We design MOFs that enable the handling of fluorinated gases as solid reagents, greatly simplifying their use for reaction discovery! 🔥🧪🔥
Handling Fluorinated Gases as Solid Reagents Using Metal–Organic Frameworks
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Check out our work on the organoelectrocatalytic reduction of unactivated chloroarenes using tetraarylcumulene-based redox mediators, now out in
@angew_chem
!
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PJM: Credit goes to the amazing students and postdocs of the group for the last 5 years! Thanks for the 🧪 and for the 🎈! 😊
A special day
@CornellChem
: phenomenal tenure seminar on “MOFganic chemistry” and much more from my amazing colleague
@RunOfThePhill
!!
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Check out
@tyler_azbell
's solo author paper on MOF halogen exchange catalysis, now out in
@J_A_C_S
!
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Congratulations to our four (!) amazing second years who all passed their qualifying exams this week! Go Jaehwan, Zoe, Ruth, and Ron!
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A little late to announce, but our perspective on "MOFganic chemistry" is now out in
@ChemMater
! Check it out:
Congrats to co-first authors Bayu, Emily, and Kaitlyn, along with Zoe and former undergrad Thomas!
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Inspired by the one and only
@alexforse1
, check out our lab's first ever pre-print about CO2 capture in hydroxide-containing MOFs, a collaboration with
@alexforse1
and
@jhlee_david
! Congrats to Mary, Queen of Separations, and Suzi!
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Come be our colleague! Cornell chemistry has *three* open-rank positions open to join our faculty! All areas welcome with emphasis on organic/inorganic (broadly defined)! The deadline is October 15th to apply!
@CornellChem
@Chemjobber
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Congrats again on well-deserved ACS awards
@BuchwildGroup
@LongLabCal
! This picture is like a human Venn diagram.
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We had a great time at WNYIS last Friday! Tristan gave a talk on COFs (it had Na in it, thats a metal) and Mary
@_marycait
and Alexandra gave posters. Mary won a poster prize! Thanks
@MatsonLab
for organizing!
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Check out Mary and Jaehwan's paper on a challenging separation in synthetic chemistry, now out in
@J_A_C_S
! Thanks to our awesome collaborators
@jhlee_david
and Miguel, Ever, and Adam from
@LongLabCal
!
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Check out 🪨⭐️graduate student Yihuan's most recent foray into the electroreductive functionalization of (hetero)aryl halides, now out in
@angew_chem
! A super simple method for forging C-C bonds. No metal, no catalyst, no light, no MOF, no problem! 😺
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It's amazing to finally see this out! This work represents a long journey for three superstars, former UG Christina (now in the Knowles group at Princeton), current grad student Jaehwan (paper
#3
!), and former grad student Cara from the Abruna lab.
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Excited to see this out! Our first paper, written in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Buchwald-Hartwig coupling. Anybody doing Suzuki-Miyaura couplings with polyhalogenated substrates (*cough* MOF folks) or (hetero)aryl iodides should check it out!
Just now in
@OPRD_ACS
: Milner group (
@RunOfThePhill
) describes the inhibitory effect of halide salts in Suzuki rxns with biaryl monophosphine ligands by disfavoring the formation of a highly reactive Pd–OH intermediate.
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Our work with the Twitter-less Suntivich group is now online! Here we demonstrate the idea of "reactive crystallization" in which we form a MOF from digested textile waste not as the end goal, but as a means to recover pure monomer from a complex mixture.
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Check out our most recent deep dive into what happens when you try to make MOFs at high concentrations to streamline their synthesis! Congrats to the fantastic group of students, postdocs, and collaborators who made this work possible!
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Saving the best for last / better late than never - Cornell Chemistry and Chemical Biology is hiring tenure-track faculty (at all levels) this year! Submit your apps here: 🥳🎉
@CornellChem
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Check out
@tyler_azbell
’s work with Tristan, former undergrad Christina, and Melissa from
@LancasterLabCU
on a dead easy way to make mofs, now out in
@angew_chem
!
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As promised, check out the second paper published this week from recent PhD graduate Ruth Mandel as part of her collaboration with
@PiyushaLotlikar
from
@JWilsonLab
, out now in
@J_A_C_S
! 🎉🥳🐖
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Check out Tyler, Tristan, Ron, and Ruth's account of our efforts to simplify the synthesis of MOFs for non-experts, now out in Accounts of Materials Research!
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Lost in all of PJM's travel, we were slow to announce: our very own Mary Zick, Queen of MOF Separations, was named an
@ACSINORDivision
Young Investigator!!!! We couldn't be prouder!! 🤩⭐️🌟🌠
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Congratulations to second-year Alexandra, who passed her qualifying exam today!🥳
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Check out our newest pre-print showing that MOFs bearing terminal Co-X sites are great recyclable heterogeneous catalysts for halogen exchange (aka nucleophilic aromatic substitution)!
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Check out our new perspective on the promise of MOFs for organic chemistry (MOFganic chemistry)!
Congrats to the MOFganic team: Bayu (G2), Kaitlyn (G3), Emily (G2, fresh off her NSF GRFP win), Zoe (G3), and Thomas (undergrad)!
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Second Year Alexandra and senior undergraduate Elena both received NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions! Congrats to both!
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Check out our first paper with the twitterless Musser group, all based on post-doc Arjun's observation that tetraphenylethylene-based MOFs shift from green to blue photoluminescence as a function of the amount of acid used during their synthesis! 🟩->🟦
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Congrats to the ever-inspiring
@SongLinLab
@songlin_chem
and
@TheLambertLab
@TristanHLambert
for receiving Cope Scholar Awards! Truly an amazing time to be a member of
@CornellChem
!
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Our first year Ruth succesfully synthesized a halve-a-mol scale of a MOF... It looks like coconut strips inside the Soxhlet!! ❣️
#Chemistry
#MOFs
#Donteatit
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3rd year Emily
@emily_stacy621
gave a great Departmental talk today on fluorinated gas delivery and functionalization using MOFs! Stay tuned! 🍾
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The Milner group is taking over ACS NOLA! Check out talks from Yihuan, Jaehwan, Tyler, Tristan, Alexandra, and our ignominious PI next week! 🎉
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Mary Zick passed her A exam to become the first official PhD candidate of the group! Social distancing celebration with champagne in the sunshine!
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Excited to be part of this special issue! 🥲
Meet Prof. Phillip Milner
@RunOfThePhill
@cornell
, a 2023 ACS Materials Au Rising Star.
Check out Phillip's work here 🔓 👉
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Another entry in our fun (albeit slightly smelly) collaboration with
@JWilsonLab
on H2S delivery using MOFs! This time, we show that a Mg-based MOF is uniquely well-suited for transdermal H2S delivery through porcine skin.
Check out the preprint here:
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In honor of our new first years Ronald, Ruth, Jaehwan, and Zoe, we decided to update our group photo! You know what they say: "Team work makes the frame work."
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Congrats to undergraduate student Faith Chen and second year graduate student Ron Jerozal on being named NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions! 🍾🍾
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Following up on last week's
@ChemMater
paper, co-first authors Faith and Tristan got some more good news today! Faith was awarded the
#NSFGRFP
and Tristan received honorable mention! Way to go team!
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PJM received the 2021 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award in recognition of his mentorship of undergraduate students!!!! He was nominated by our amazing group of undergraduate researchers.
@CasandraMoisanu
@faithch3n
#CornellChemValues
😄
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Congrats to
@CornellChem
's very own Pete Wolczanski on election to the NAS!
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 24 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research.
Congratulations to our new
#NASmembers
and welcome to the Academy!
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Check out undergraduate Faith and second year Ruth’s new paper on the storage and therapeutic delivery of H2S in biocompatible MOFs! Thanks to to our awesome collaborators
@jhlee_david
and Josh from
@JWilsonLab
!
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Second-year Tristan gave an awesome talk today about his studies of MOF synthesis! Keep your eyes peeled for the paper, coming soon to a journal near you!
#acs2022
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Our rock star undergrads have been crushing it! Faith will receive the Wu prize for sophomores, Christina will receive the Lovenberg prize for juniors, and Luc and Casandra received summer research awards from the dept. Keep an eye out for these guys next year!
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We're grateful to
@AtkinsonCenter
for supporting our collaborative sustainability seed grants! One with
@forsgroup
on CO2 capture with polymers (we'll let you guess who corrupted whom), one with
@TheLambertLab
on CO2 capture, and one with the Musser group on photoactive MOFs!🌞
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Honored to be part of this fantastic group of scientists!
🌟 Meet the 2023 ACS Materials Au Rising Stars. 🌟
These inspirational new leaders in materials science represent the future of research. Check out their work here 👉
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Forgot to tweet this out earlier (
#BlameThePI
), but check out our most recent foray into electroreductive radical couplings of (hetero)aryl halides, now on ChemRxiv! Congrats to 3rd year Yihuan! No metal, no catalyst, no light, no problem.
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Congrats to our second years, Bayu, Yihuan, and Emily, who all passed their qualifying exams in the last week! We caught 2/3 corks on camera 🍾
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Check out Jaehwan and
@CasandraMoisanu
's paper now out in Chemistry of Materials! Shout out to our awesome collaborators including our post-doc Arjun, Cara from the Abruna lab,
@majorsmajer
from
@LancasterLabCU
,
@alexforse1
, and
@JJ_FR_10
! 😀🥳🍾
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Excited to announce our new CCMR-funded collaboration with
@AndoLab
@nozomi_ando
and
@CHESS_user
on "borrowing" techniques from protein crystallography to probe the structure and dynamics of large pore MOFs!
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Check out this new paper from PJM's first ever undergraduate mentee with
@LongLabCal
about new mechanisms for CO2 capture! Also, late wishes for a happy 2020 from our lab!
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A belated welcome to our new first year student Alexandra, who is joining us from
@pushingarrows
lab at Rice! Alexandra will be working on new reactivity for CO2 capture in porous materials. Welcome to the team!
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Last but certainly not least, third year Jaehwan gave a talk about his unexpected direct synthesis of redox-active polymers! A fascinating solid-state organic chemistry story coming soon to a journal near you! ⚡️
#acs2022
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Our very own 🪨 ⭐️ Ruth kicked off
@CornellChem
second visit weekend the right way with her talk about H2S delivery (collab with
@JWilsonLab
)!! Building on Cornell’s motto “any person, any study,” she also coined a new slogan for our group 👏
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Our very own 3rd year Emily Stacy presented a poster at the CBI meeting on a super secret project involving MOFs and chemical biology! (Coming soon to a journal near you!) Thanks to the organizers for putting this meeting together!
Thanks to
@StacyMalaker
@Fe_Will26
@pottslab
and all the CBI trainees for an absolutely amazing day today
@CornellChem
!
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Check out this highlight of our recent CO2 capture work from Cornell!
@alexforse1
@jhlee_david
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PJM had such a great time giving a seminar at the University at Buffalo hosted by the one and only
@cooklab_ub
on Friday that he forgot to take any pictures! Thanks again for the invite!! 🎉 🎈 🎊
#BlameThePI
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Kaitlyn rocked the house yesterday with her talk on MOFganic chemistry at the student seminar series! 🔥 ⭐️ ☀️ 🕶
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Congratulations to 🪨 ⭐️ fourth year Kaitlyn on this honor!! Champion of MOFganic chemistry!!
The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 WCC Merck Research Award. We thank all those who applied for this competitive scholarship and to Merck for sponsoring this award.
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4th year Ruth is crushing her talk about our H2S delivery work with
@JWilsonLab
at
@8thMOF2022
!!
🪨 ⭐️ 😎
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Showed an undergraduate in the group how to run a flash column the other day... This was at the top of her notes. Good advice!
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Excited to announce that our project with the Twitter-less Musser group here at Cornell was selected for a New Frontiers Grant! 🍾
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PJM: We are heartbroken about this as well. Frank was so helpful when I (as a dumb organic chemist) first put together my graduate solid state chemistry class. He was instrumental to our department and Cornell. He will be missed.
@CornellChem
Heartbroken to hear my PhD advisor, Frank DiSalvo, the John A. Newman Prof. Emeritus at Cornell U.
@CornellChem
, passed away on Oct 27, 2023.😭
A brilliant scientist, caring mentor, and great person.
Condolences to Barbara &family 🙏
My last meeting with Frank June 2021 Ithaca
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PJM gave 3 talks in 6 days at MIT, Berkeley, and Harvard (and managed to forget to take any pictures!). Thanks
@DincaGroupMIT
@LongLabCal
@christhechang
@RichrdLiu
and the somehow Twitter-less Jarad Mason for hosting! ✈️ 😴 ✈️
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These SEM images might be a sign from the universe that our PI is nuts.
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PJM brought a taste of Ithaca to Seattle for his visit to UW! Thanks
@DougReedChem
@thexiaolab
for hosting! ❄️ ❄️ ⛄️
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In lieu of a lab tour, please enjoy these photos of our empty labs (taken last week) while playing dubstep in your head.
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Check out this write up in the Cornell Chronicle on our recent paper!
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Yesterday was our group holiday party! We baked cookies, played games, and enjoyed cocktails! 🍪 ☃️ 🍸
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Which of these prom-style group photos do you prefer? (Yes, it did snow a lot in Ithaca last weekend❄️)
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Come to Cornell for the amazing science, stay for the sweet dance moves. 💃
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