Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy
@Alex_Zhuko
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Asst. Professor, @UNC Chemistry | polymer-maker, guitarist, fisherman, very amateur powerlifter and salsa-dancer | Ukrainian American | ❤️ 🐕 and 🐈
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined October 2018
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RT @Shenvi_Lab: If you like total synthesis and Wordle, check out Synthordle, a retrosynthetic analysis game created by Shenvi Lab associat….
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RT @meganj6E23: We're hiring a postdoc for UNC's new Creativity Hub for Solid-State Batteries! Join our interdisciplinary team to develop n….
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Interested in chemical recycling of plastics and the complexities of its implementation? Check out this @ConversationUS article that Anne McNeil, @GetzlerChem, and I just wrote about a plastics pyrolysis plant opening in Newaygo, MI. @uncchemistry.
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A proposed chemical recycling plant in western Michigan may provide a handful of jobs but little environmental benefit.
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To me, Jeremiah @johnsonchem epitomizes creativity in polymer chemistry. Of course, I'm *a little* biased, but very happy about this recognition for him.
Join POLY in Congratulating, Jeremiah Johnson @MIT, the 2025 Carl S. Marvel Award for Creative Polymer Chemistry Award recipient!.@johnsonchem #POLYAward #ACSSpring2025
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RT @TrendsChemistry: Past authors, reviewers, and our esteemed advisory board put forward nominations for emerging leaders in their respect….
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To help celebrate the journal’s fifth anniversary, as well as the 50th anniversary of Cell Press, past authors, reviewers, and our esteemed advisory board put forward some nominations for emerging...
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My group is amazing! Check out this video if you're interested in joining our group (or just want to see a fun video)! @uncchemistry.
We're excited to welcome the incoming graduate students! We've made a video for you to learn about us!
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We are grateful to @uncchemistry and @NSF for their support of this work, which made it possible!.
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Excited to share our 2nd installment on templated entanglements—this time in gels! This work was led by a team of outstanding @ZhukoGroup students Erin Krist and Ben Kruse (@1craftychemist and @BJKtheOne) with help from John Dickenson in @MeyerGroupUNC.
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Polymer entanglements─topological constraints to chain motion─are fundamental features of polymers, whose presence is believed to improve materials properties such as modulus and toughness, essential...
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If you're interested in a PUI faculty career in chemistry, the opportunity below is the perfect postdoc! @Chemjobber.
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RT @AurMatthew: What happens when you "pull" on bullvalene? Find out in our next bullvalene story, now out in @J_A_C_S (.
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The solution-state fluxional behavior of bullvalene has fascinated physical organic and supramolecular chemists alike. Little effort, however, has been put into investigating bullvalene applications...
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Excited to share this discovery by @DrakeChem and team in the @ZhukoGroup of "IrN5" rings! Also, my personal first @Orgmet_ACS paper! Crucial help from @kingak333 and @FuShengWang0318! @uncchemistry.
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Catalytic diazene metathesis is a fundamental inorganic transformation that remains unrealized despite its potential value, given the photochemical properties of the diazene functional group....
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Check out the @ZhukoGroup's newest review (led by the amazing PD @FuShengWang0318) in @TrendsChemistry on the subject of entanglements: We hope it will be a useful resource connecting polymer chemists and physicists working in this area. @uncchemistry.
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Excited to share this collaborative work with the @ianatonks group, led by a powerhouse duo @ditzler_rach and @rachelrap77. We demonstrated architectural editing of polyester and polyurethane backbones through Pd-catalyzed 3,3-rearrangements
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Architecture underlies the thermomechanical properties of polymers. Yet, few strategies are available to tune a polymer’s architecture after it is prepared without altering its chemical composition....
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Excited to share the first installment of our work on templated entanglements led by Dr. Fu-Sheng Wang in the @ZhukoGroup, with help on fluorimetry from John Dickenson in the @MeyerGroupUNC:
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Trapped entanglements─topological cross-links among polymer chains in a network─are fundamental to polymers and have been correlated with mechanical properties like toughness, critical for virtually...
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Congrats to @kingak333 and @DrakeChem on absolutely outstanding PhD theses. Excited for what the future holds for you both.
Congratulations to Dr. King and Dr. Johnson for successfully defending their thesis this week! @kingak333 @DrakeChem
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