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The official Twitter page of the Leibfarth research group at UNC Chapel Hill. Make sure your safety shower is nearby because we only post fire tweets 🔥🔥🔥

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As a group, we stand in solidarity with Black Americans as we seek to end police brutality and rectify systemic racism. In support of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have compiled a non-exhaustive list of resources with action items to help us become more actively anti-racist
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When you come back from break and forget how to do chemistry #RealTimeChem
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We're excited to finally share our most recent publication in @sciencemagazine on sterecontrolled polymerization 📾🎮! Great job @AaronTeator and @Frank_Leibfarth ! #RealTimeChem
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Congratulations to our very own @Frank_Leibfarth on a phenomenal tenure talk today! A great time to reflect on all the lab has accomplished over the last few years!
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In collaboration with @AlexanianLab , we are excited to show the usage of radical chain transfer chemistry for the C-H functionalization of both small molecules and polyolefins! Congrats to our very own @jillalty , @ElizaNeidhart , as well as Tim and Austin!
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Diversification of aliphatic C–H bonds in small molecules and polyolefins through radical chain...

A radical reagent strips hydrogen atoms from organic molecules and plastics to enable their broad functionalization.

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Yesterday @jillwillalty Ph.D. was the first of many to successfully defend in the group! 🥳🤘👩‍🔬 How it started // How its going
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Hotdog! Sally Lewis got her PhD today! How it started//how it’s going
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Another academic year in the books means a #newgroupphoto !
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A huge congratulations to our very own @mulloym on receiving the 2022 Merck Award from @AcsWcc , as well as the Dobbins Fellowship @uncchemistry . We are so proud of everything you have accomplished so far!
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Can anyone tell us what goes into this port of our GPC? Our vials don’t seem to fit in it
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New year, who dis? We’re excited to kick this year off with awesome new additions to the group and photoshop skills!
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Huzzah! Our group's latest perspective on stereoselective vinyl polymerizations is now out in @ACSCatalysis ! A huge congratulations to @cole_soryy , Caleb, and @miaaborden1 for this work!
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Asymmetric Ion-Pairing in Stereoselective Vinyl Polymerization

Controlling polymer tacticity is a key consideration in macromolecular synthesis due to the impact of stereochemistry on a material’s thermomechanical and optical properties. Recently, inspired by...

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Your jaw will hit the flow when you read our newest review by Marcus Reis and the @PitetGroup ! #flowisthefuture #flowrealthough #floweveryoung
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Polymerizations in Continuous Flow: Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Diverse Polymeric Materials

The number of reports using continuous flow technology in tubular reactors to perform precision polymerizations has grown enormously in recent years. Flow polymerizations allow highly efficient...

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Welcome to Mia Borden ( @miaaborden1 ) our new post-doc! Mia comes to us from the (twitterless) Doyle group at Princeton. She is a huge Celtics fan and makes sure to never miss a game, even if that means recording it during group meeting to watch later! Welcome Mia!!
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We are excited to announce our first new grad student of 2020: @joeyeemak who will be co-advised between @FrankLeibfarth and Jeff Johnson ( @JohnsonGroup )! We have all the confidence that she will pump up the stereo(control) 🎶 thanks to her great training with @forsgroup
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Good luck to ⁦ @katrinakono14 ⁩ at the US Swimming National Championships! She will be competing in the 50 meter free at the #ToyotaUSOpen . She’s going to make a splash 🏊🏼‍♀️🏅
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5th year is getting real for our OGs!! Today, @LaSallita accepted a phenomenal job at 3M in their Automotive Aftermarkets Division! In Sept, @jillwillalty accepted a postdoc in the @KiesslingGroup at MIT! DM us for @Frank_Leibfarth 's address to send a bulk supply of tissues 🥲
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We are so proud of all the hard work @AaronTeator has conducted with our group. He is a fabulous mentor and scientist! Well-deserved!
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Congratulations to @aaronteator on receiving the 2020 Cottrell Fellowship award! Learn more about Aaron and his research in the @LeibfarthGroup : . #chemtwitter #organicchemistry #polymers @RCSA1 @unccollege @UNC
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Forget to sparge your RAFT system? Just add radicals! We are thrilled to present this dual azo initiator system in @PolymChem which facilitates oxygen tolerant RAFT in batch and flow. Congrats to Nick, Marcus, @trixfortrex , @RappJohann , and Alexis!
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A dual initiator approach for oxygen tolerant RAFT polymerization

Reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations are privileged approaches for the synthesis of functional and hybrid materials. A bottleneck for conducting these processes is the need to maintain...

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We are so excited to welcome @JRJagannathan to the group as our newest PostDoc! Jake comes to us from the Franz Group @UCDChem and is the newest member of #TeamStereo . Welcome, Jake, and we are so excited to see what you will do!!
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Congrats to our resident pro-tennis player @RappJohann , on passing his orals exam last week and becoming a Ph.D. candidate! We are excited for all the things you have to serve in the future 🎾🏸
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Congratulations to undergraduate @Paige_Jacky who was awarded the NSF GRFP and 2nd year @cole_soryy an Honorable Mention!
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99 problems, but another paper is coming at ya! The Leibfarth Group is thrilled to announce @JillBWilliamson ‘s collaborative work with the @AlexanianLab has been accepted to ACIE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #MondayMotivations
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To wrap up the fall semester, @Frank_Leibfarth had the privilege to speak @UNC 's Winter Commencement! Congrats to all of today's graduates! #ItsAGreatDayToBeATarHeel
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Congrats to our very own @Frank_Leibfarth for being selected to the @PopSci 's Brilliant 10 Class of 2021 for approaches in PFAS remediation! This work has been spearheaded in the lab by @mulloym , a current 4th-year grad student, and Elango Kumarasamy, a former PostDoc. (1/2)
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The Brilliant 10 is Popular Science’s annual list of the most innovative, up-and-coming minds in science. These thinkers represent our best hopes for navigating the unprecedented challenges of tomorrow—and today:
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#TeamStereo is back at it! We are excited to share this @J_A_C_S work on using Brønsted acids as catalysts for an expanded scope of stereoselective poly(vinyl ethers)! Congrats to @Phil_Knutson , @AaronTeator , @trixfortrex , @CalebKozuszek , and @Paige_Jacky !
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Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Stereoselective Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers

Isotactic poly(vinyl ether)s (PVEs) have recently been identified as a new class of semicrystalline thermoplastics with a valuable combination of mechanical and interfacial properties. Currently,...

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With a sprinkle of salt @QuanTran31 & @ElizaNeidhart upcycle polyolefins using amidyl radical mediated C-H functionalization this week in @MacroJrnls_ACS as collaborative effort with Sergei Sheiko @uncchemistry & Wim Bras @ORNL !
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Polyolefin Ionomer Synthesis Enabled by C–H Thioheteroarylation

Chemical upcycling of plastic waste into high-value materials has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable plastic economy. We report the synthesis of high-value ionomers directly from...

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Yay! @Victori_aB passed her candidacy exam this week to officially become a PhD candidate! Awesome job, Victoria! 🎉🥳🧪
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Congrats to our Queen of Palladium, @joeyeemak on passing her orals today and becoming a Ph.D. candidate! We are so excited to see what the future holds 🥳
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The postdocs when the PI is gone for the holidays.
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Want another reason to celebrate on Cinco de Mayo? Sally Lewis’s ( @LaSallita ) paper got ACCEPTED! #WomenInScience #polymerz #accepted #CincoDeMayo
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New and updated group photo! Might not be accurate for too long before members join/leave, so enjoy it while you can! #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
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Congrats to our very own @Frank_Leibfarth on receiving the 2022 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award from @JPolymSci and @acspmse !!
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The editors of @JPolymSci and @acspmse are delighted to present the 2022 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award to Dr. Frank A. Leibfarth, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, celebrating his contributions to polymer science.
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What happens when you PARE chiral phosphoric acids with titanium Lewis acids? @AaronTeator gets the UNC Postdoc Award for Research Excellence (PARE) on his work in stereocontrolled polymerizations!
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A big congrats to our very own Dr. Nick Taylor on a wonderful dissertation defense yesterday! Nick will be heading to @EastmanChemCo in a few weeks, and we are so proud of him for his hard work and contributions to the lab over the years. We will miss you dearly!
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For our next grad student introduction, we are pleased to welcome Caroline Coxwell to the group!! Caroline comes to us from the Miller Group at @UFChemistry and @ButlerPolymer , and is the newest member of #TeamPFAS !
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5th year @cole_soryy back at it again in @ACSCatalysis with a thermodynamic stereocontrolled vinyl polymerization featuring all-star undergrads @vb_027 and Anthony Bello! #carbaCole
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Mechanistic Insights into the Stereoselective Cationic Polymerization of N-Vinylcarbazole

The synthesis of stereoregular polymers through ionic mechanisms using asymmetric ion-pairing (AIP) catalysis is emerging as an effective strategy to achieve differentiated material properties from...

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Oh buoy! We were swimpressed with @katrinakono14 now back to our poolymerizations! Water you doing today? #ToyotaUSOpen
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Hot off the @J_A_C_S presses, we are thrilled to present this communication for stereoselective helix-sense-selective polymerization of NVCs! Congrats to #TeamStereo member @cole_soryy on a fantastic paper! ()
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Who wore it better?
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Gonna tell my kids this is Frank Leibfarth
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Check out our review in ACS Macro Lett. on recent advances pushing polymers into a new dimension through stereocontrolled vinyl polymerization! Top notch work @AaronTeator @trixfortrex @cole_soryy and @Phil_Knutson 🤓👨‍🔬
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100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: The Past, Present, and Future of Stereocon...

The thermomechanical properties exhibited by synthetic macromolecules can be directly linked to their tacticity, or the relative stereochemistry of repeat units. The development of stereoselective...

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#TeamFlow meets #MachineLearning ! We are excited to share this @J_A_C_S work, in collaboration with the @olexandr group, on this synergistic combination for the examination of copolymers for 19F MRI applications! Congrats to Marcus Reis and @NickGrayTay1 !
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Machine-Learning-Guided Discovery of 19F MRI Agents Enabled by Automated Copolymer Synthesis

Modern polymer science suffers from the curse of multidimensionality. The large chemical space imposed by including combinations of monomers into a statistical copolymer overwhelms polymer synthesis...

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🎶Picture yourself: a first year in grad school. with polymer dreams and hope in your eyes. Somebody asks you, 'will you join our lab please?' It's Frank with kaleidoscope eyes.🎶 Welcome to our 4 new first years!! Stay tuned for their individual twitter intros!
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A huge congrats to our very own Dr. Irene Manning ( @mulloym ) on a wonderful dissertation defense this afternoon! We are so proud of her for all of her hard work and contributions to the lab over the years!
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Our last first year to introduce - Cole Sorensen comes to us from Virginia Tech ( #gohokies ) where he got his BS. Cole has lived in some fabulous places like SoCal and Switzerland, but he finds nothing as exciting or beautiful as Chapel Hill 💙🤍 #uncchemistry
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While we will miss being able to export our data via floppy disk we are very excited about our two new @TosohBio GPCs! @Tosoh_japan
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Next up we would like to introduce @RappJohann coming to us from UF and the @LowDispersity Sumerlin Group! Johann is ready for his flow up in grad school and will join our labs continuous flow projects. Welcome!! #glowup #flowup
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Our brilliant undergrad @Paige_Jacky successfully defended her honors thesis today on her work polymerizing isotactic copolymers, synthesizing sustainable monomers, and much much more! We’re so proud! 🎉👩‍🔬
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Elf on a shelf, Brett on a Jet, Brent on a Tent, now get ready for... @forsgroup @LowDispersity
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Congrats to our resident swimmer Caroline on being awarded the NSF GRFP! We are so proud of you and excited to see what you will do next!
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If you’re a student interested in our group, take a look at our Instagram take-over of the @cenmag account! It gives a great introduction to our lab and what we do! #UNCchemistry Part 1:
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What was worse: PFAS or Orals? Congrats to Ph.D. candidate, @mulloym on passing orals! Confidence brought to you by ample preparation and @nordstromrack #polymers #pfas #WomenInScience
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Day 6. Still no sign of @Frank_Leibfarth around lab. Had to take matters into our own hands.
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Just like tape, Marcus is known in our group for holding things together. It is only fitting that he earned a summer internship at 3M in the adhesives division! 3M is about to become 4M: Minnesota, Manufacturing, Mining, and Marcus
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Happy Halloween from the Leibfarth lab!
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If you are trying to keep up with all the goings-on of Frank A. Leibfarth, we recommend following him on these social media platforms:
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A high school student, an undergrad ( @Paige_Jacky ), a grad student ( @trixfortrex ), a postdoc ( @AaronTeator ), and a PI ( @Frank_Leibfarth ) walk into a lab. Read the punchline here...
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Congratulations to our resident pop-punk aficionado and Twitter moderator @JordanSLevi on successfully defending his MSc thesis last week! We are so proud of him for his hard work and contributions to the lab. We will miss you dearly, Jordan!
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Congrats to Marcus and @trixfortrex ! Dropping some knowledge on droplet flow 🤜🖐🎤 #MicDrop
The Influence of Residence Time Distribution on Continuous-Flow Polymerization

Continuous-flow chemistry is emerging as an enabling technology for the synthesis of precise polymers. Recent advances in this rapidly growing field have hastened a need for a fundamental understan...

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When you’re on video calls all day and get zoom butt #workfromhome #betterthanlabfeet #Corgi
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When you just finished some excellent intro slides and then realize your group meeting actually starts in an hour #1styear
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Congrats to our very own @ElizaNeidhart and Caleb for receiving Honorable Mention for this year's NSF GRFP! We are proud of you, and all of our lab's applicants, for their hard work.
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M1SS1nG S0M3TH1nG @GuteGroup ? @willgute ABaND0N3D Y0Ur Pr3C10uS POST3r AnD W3 AR3 H0Ld1NG 1T FOr RaNS0M. We ask that your group post a group photo wearing all denim. If you don't post the photo within the week, we will torch/cut/slice your beloved poster. We will not negotiate.
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Check out some of our latest flow work and first submission to @ChemRxiv !
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The Influence of Residence Time Distribution on Continuous Flow Polymerization by Frank Leibfarth ( @LeibfarthGroup ) & co-workers #matscipreprints
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The first years when the PI is gone for the holidays.
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Got one of our postdocs some Jello today. Are we doing this Postdoc Appreciation Week thing right @UNCPostdoc ? #AppreciateYourPostdocDay #UNCNPAW2019
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Congrats to our very own @jillalty , currently a postdoc @KiesslingGroup , on receiving the 2022 @POLY_ACS Henkel Award! Jill was an integral part of the group's initial efforts on C-H functionalization and we are proud of everything that you have accomplished so far!
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Congratulations Dr. Jill Alty, on winning the 2022 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering Visit to read about Dr. Alty's accomplishments! #ACSFall2022 #ACSPOLY #ACSPMSE @jillalty
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We thought we were buying tickets to a Janus particle conference... turns out we bought Jonas Brothers’ concert tickets. Can we still be reimbursed? #HappinessBeginsTour #sophiewashere #housestark
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But wait, theres more! Florida man and first year @JordanSLevi has joined our group on #teamstereo . Jordan hails from UF and the @LowDispersity group. We are thrilled to see all that he will accomplish in the coming years!
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For our first new grad student intro of 2022, we are pleased to welcome Christopher Diamond-Hettinger! Chris comes to use from @stache_lab at Cornell University and is the newest member of #teamstereo !
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We are excited to announce our new graduate students: 1st up is @Victori_aB ! Victoria joins us from Spelman College. Originally from AL, Victoria has been tracking northward: AL to FL to GA, now to NC. On days like this, it is a #gdtbath - just like tomorrow after we #beatdook
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Congrats to our very own @miaaborden1 for being named an @acspmse PMSE Future Faculty! We are excited to see what the future holds for you!
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Congrats to the 2022 PMSE Future Faculty Awardees👏👏👏 #polymer #researcher #chemistry #ACSFall2022 @AmerChemSociety @EmilyPentzer @MGrunlanLab
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When you're a little too confident walking into your first research presentation. #SitDown #BeHumble
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We had a humerus time today being a part of the ACGS-departmental trick-or-treating today!! A huge shout out to our very own Caroline for helping to organize this!
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Out today in @MacroJrnls_ACS : @Victori_aB , @miaaborden1 , and @jillalty , in collaboration with @AlexanianLab and @AFResearchLab , showcase the C-H Func. of poly(caprolactone) and its effects on degradation. Congratulations to everyone!!
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For our first first-year introduction, we are thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Kellstedt ( @ekellstedt ) to the group! Elizabeth comes to us from the Hillmyer group at the University of Minnesota, and she is the newest member of #TeamCHFunc .
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We had a great time this afternoon participating in a dual (virtual) group meeting with @niu_group ! Thanks for taking the time to discuss some of the ongoing research in both of our labs!!
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2nd year @cole_soryy on #teamstereo yesterday successfully passed his candidacy exam! Way to go, Cole!👨‍🔬🧪🥳
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Sally ( @LaSallita ) will be turning Kingsport, TN into her own Queensport! This Spring, she will be interning for @EastmanChemCo through their University Relations Program. Congratulations Sally on this amazing opportunity! #chemindustry #queen
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In collaboration with @SardonL , @Dove_Group , De Meester (Ghent), and Chen (CSU), we are thrilled to share this @Nature Perspective on the upcycling of commodity polymers. Congrats to our very own @jillalty , @CoralieJehanno , Martjin, and everyone involved!.
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Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers

Nature - Methods for the transformation of plastics into materials with value, known as plastic waste upcycling, are outlined, and their advantages and challenges in terms of a sustainable plastics...

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View from the hood: Chapel Hill edition. #UNC #dispersionatwork
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Last but not least we have @ElizaNeidhart ! Coming from the land of the cold, Eliza did her undergrad at Macalester College and worked in @LeahWitus 's lab. Eliza will be a polymer decorator here in the Leibfarth lab! #PPM #polyolefins Welcome, Eliza!
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For our final grad student introduction, we are excited to welcome @ColliverCali to the group! Cali comes to us from the @StefSydlik group at Carnegie Mellon and is the newest member of #TeamFlow !!
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Out now in @angew_chem , in collaboration with the Coronell Lab and @EPAresearch , we present the utilization of hydrolytically stable ionic fluorogels for #PFAS remediation! Congrats to Irene on a fantastic paper! If you would like to learn more, check out Irene's thread below.
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Our newest work in #PFAS Remediation is out now in @angew_chem . There’s a bit of everything- monomer design, systematic libraries of networks, batch performance testing, nontargeted analysis to probe stability, & mini-RSSCTs w/ spiked @OWASA_NC water!
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Spreading the gospel of polymers to the organic chemistry division! Congrats to @JillBWilliamson and @trixfortrex for giving two outstanding fourth year talks today!
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Check out our most recent paper headed by Nick Taylor ( @NickGrayTay1 )! Rain, sleet, snow or hail Nick had to trek across campus to a special NMR instrument hundreds of times to get YOU this data! Now he has calves of steel and an awesome paper- enjoy!
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Partially Fluorinated Copolymers as Oxygen Sensitive 19F MRI Agents

Fluorine power! The synthesis of densely fluorinated monomers and their copolymerization into water-soluble 19F MRI agents is reported. These copolymers demonstrate improved 19F MRI sensitivity...

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Congrats to both Caleb Kozuszek and @ElizaNeidhart for recently passing their orals and becoming Ph.D. candidates! We are so proud of both of you!
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On @trixfortrex 's first day teaching polymer synthesis he is giving one of life's most important lessons. #wellroundedstudents #syllabusweek #ProfTravis
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Check out our newest paper spearheaded by @trixfortrex with help from @Paige_Jacky and @AaronTeator ! This is a mechaNASTY investigation on stereoselective catICONIC polymerization of vinyl ethers. #AnotherOne
Mechanistic Insight into the Stereoselective Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers

The control of the tacticity of synthetic polymers enables the realization of emergent physical properties from readily available starting materials. While stereodefined polymers derived from...

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Jumping for @J_A_C_S ! Since jumping is absolutely not a lab-safe activity, enjoy this throwback of @JillBWilliamson of course sporting her #tribepride . Congrats to her, Rob, Christina, Will, Erik, and @Frank_Leibfarth on their recent publication. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b05799
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For our final first-year introduction, we are pleased to welcome Alyssa Thayne ( @alyssathayne ) to the group! Alyssa comes to us from the @MichaudelLab at Texas A&M and is the newest member of #TeamFunctionalMaterials !
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If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re sober. 👀👀 @NicewiczLab @KnightGroupUNC @LockettLab @AlexanianLab @WeiYouResearch @CahoonLabUNC @MeekLab @JohnsonGroup @Warren_Lab_UNC @Alex_Zhuko
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PSA: @LeibfarthGroup is taking over the @cenmag Instagram tomorrow! Go give them a follow to check out their cool content and see what an average day in the Leibfarth lab looks like! @Frank_Leibfarth @RealTimeChem @UNCchem @Chemjobber #ChemTwitter
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Today we said goodbye to our postdoc of a year Elango heads to New York without any fear He’s been north before; Fargo’s colder, we’re sure He’s in for a great opportunity; let’s cheer! We will miss you Elango! (Limerick inspired by Tara Meyer @meyergroup )
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Fun fact: our group eats lunch together every day! We swapped out Caudill 2nd floor lobby for @Lindasbar - for food not drinks this visit weekend 😋 We’ll send get some SFS’s and loaded tots with you when you come here for grad school 😏 #virtualUNCchem
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Rob did a great job on his second year talk today about Kumada polycondensations! To celebrate, the lab’s going to get burritos!
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Happy Halloween from Kim Possible, Aaron Teator, Aaron Teator, Ms. Frizzle, big bird, and a butterfly! And shout out to the UNC chemistry department for throwing an awesome party for everyone! #welovecandy #uncchem #itwasspooky
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Thought it was a clean NMR. Turns out it was just a #TideAd @DavidKHarbour
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Congrats to our undergrad @Paige_Jacky ! She won the Matthews Family Dentistry $1,000 #FutureSelfie scholarship contest. We always enjoy Paige's big smile at work. She was chosen as the winner because of her aspiration to make big environmental impacts through polymer chemistry!
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