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Polymer chemistry lab @UNC (run by Zhuko group grad students)
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined December 2019
We're excited to welcome the incoming graduate students! We've made a video for you to learn about us!
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Alex gave a wonderful faculty presentation yesterday!
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RT @Alex_Zhuko: Excited to share our 2nd installment on templated entanglements—this time in gels! This work was led by a team of outstandi….
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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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RT @Alex_Zhuko: Excited to share this collaborative work with the @ianatonks group, led by a powerhouse duo @ditzler_rach and @rachelrap77.….
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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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Check out Dr. Wang's latest work on templating entanglements in polymer elastomers! @FuShengWang0318.
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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Congratulations to Dr. King and Dr. Johnson for successfully defending their thesis this week! @kingak333 @DrakeChem
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Want to learn more about hetero-ene metathesis? Check out our perspective in ACS Catalysis here: @DrakeChem @Alex_Zhuko.
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Metathesis of double bonds has enabled innovation in a broad range of fields: from materials science to medicine. However, this chemistry has largely focused on alkenes rather than hetero-enes, or...
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Warm welcome to our newest lab member, Mark Jareczek! Mark joins us from Washington University in St. Louis. In his free time, Mark enjoys hiking and Pokemon!
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Congrats to Elias Arroyo, a undergraduate student in our lab, for being awarded UNC Chemistry's Stern Award!.
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Congrats to Andrew (@kingak333) for being selected for the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium!.
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Thank you @NatRevChem for featuring our review article on the cover of the September 2023 issue! Check it out here: @Alex_Zhuko @ditzler_rach @kingak333 @Maxim_Ratushnyy @uncchemistry
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Congrats to Maxim (@Maxim_Ratushnyy) who has recently departed the group for a job at Syngenta! You will be greatly missed!
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We will be missing Rachael (@ditzler_rach) for 12 weeks while she's off at an internship at Procter & Gamble. Best of luck!
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A wonderful editorial contributed to by Hilary (@hilaryfk8) in honor of Juneteenth. Check it out!.
Pls check out our editorial in JACS. We describe ways to retain Black talent in chemistry. This was a fun project with multiple @urichmond @richmondas chem dept students and alums. In honor of the Juneteenth holiday! @acsJACS @thaiscott @academika_gw
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We'd like to welcome Isabella, an undergrad at UNC, to the group! Fun fact - Isabella is a member of the UNC fencing team.
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RT @Alex_Zhuko: Thank you @ArmyResearchLab for supporting my @ZhukoGroup research on sigmatropic rearrangements of polymer backbones!.
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