Just out in Science Advances! Sophia Fricke and the Reimer Lab lead our collab study on plastics deconstruction, extracting fractal surface dimensionality and reaction wavefront velocity, properties inaccessible with standard diffusion measurements. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's with profound sadness to announce the passing of Michel Fouré--a great mentor and friend. Here's a photo of us in 2015, when we were exploring lab-to-market transitions for our microporous polymer membranes, leading to the creation of Sepion Technologies

Congress is considering a budget request that proposes slashing the federal science agencies by up to 50%. These cuts would devastate UC by cutting off funding for critical research and innovation. Join us 👉 tell Congress to invest in science: https://bit.ly/467ldiL #SpeakUp4Science #StandUpforUC

Humbled to receive the Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry from @acs.org. I have had the privilege of mentoring early career scientists and working with outstanding collaborators, which has contributed to my passion and drive. See you in Atlanta at the Spring ACS! cen.acs.org/people/award...

Harvey Mudd is hiring a tenure track analytical chemist. Come join my department!

Just out in @jacs.acspublications.org! We demonstrate resin-to-resin circularity in cycloolefin resins crosslinked with DCPD. Catalyst choice, co-monomers, post-processing of 3D printed and conventional parts dictate efficacy and bounds for regeneration. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Saddened to hear of the passing of luminary scientist, Gabor Somorjai. With Gabor, @berkeleylab.lbl.gov has led the way in understanding materials through their surfaces, be that structure, dynamics, sorption, and transformations relevant to energy applications. He will be missed.

Just out in ACS Energy Letters! We demosntrate electrochemical Li+ enrichment in mixed-cation brines with antiselective cation-exchange PIM membranes. Collab with Mike Baird, Ryan Kingsbury, Gan Chen, Mike Whittaker @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov, ALS, Princeton University pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Excited to have Linda Nazar at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social College of Chemistry this afternoon for @basf.bsky.social Lecture.

We're hiring a postdoc to join our @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov plastics recycling team. Scope will include developing new reactions for selective functionalization of polyolefins, assessing properties and recyclability. phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLHM2EPD

Always great to see group alumni on the stage, shining. Elise Goldfine talks about next gen generation at day 2 fast pitches. #arpae25

Deleting data from websites amounts to a digital dark age

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Just out in Science Advances @science.org! Chemical recycling of plastics to monomer accelerated through oxy-functionalization remote from the bond undergoing cleavage. Polymer conformation plays dominant role. @molecularfoundry.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Celebrating Mike Baird’s graduation. PhD #6 ! They don’t have advisors hood PhD students during the Fall ceremony, so no regalia for me today, so I wore something festive

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Maybe the best way to sustainably reuse carbon is to take inspiration from biology. Learn more about the "bio-synthesis" of low-cost, easily recyclable plastics and the other immediate steps we need to take to close the carbon cycle here! berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2024... #climate #SciComm

That’s a wrap! Last view from my office for 2024. @molecularfoundry.bsky.social @berkeleylab.bsky.social

If you live in California, you'll find it often a race to social media to announce an earthquake first among friend groups. Today's ensuing tsunami warning was, however, an audible surprise to all

The real chemtrail that we’re not talking about.

New evidence shows that plumes from industrial plants generate snowfall. The finding suggests that the pollution from the factories is providing ice-nucleating particles and causing snowfall. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky #bluesci 🧪

The Inflation Reduction Act's $7,500 EV tax credit is incentivizing U.S. EV supply chain investment, and that's by design. Killing it, as Trump is contemplating, would be a big gift for China. insideevs.com/news/741162/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

Join our Team! For our DOE program in plastics circularity and recycling, I'm recruiting a postdoc with experience in organic and polymer chemistry @berkeleylab.bsky.social Apply here: jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/organic...