We report in @jacs.acspublications.org a water-soluble probe showing room-temperature spin-correlated radical pair behavior, responsive to magnetic fields and DNA’s electric field but not lipid bilayers, offering a path to ambient qubit-like function.🔥 🔗: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Are you at #MRSFall2025? Here are three excellent scientists representing our lab. Take a look at their poster to learn more about our science.

Happy and excited to share that we are #NIHFunded thanks to the MIRA R35 mechanism from NIGMS. Now let's get to work and deliver cool Science with this taxpayer-funded award. 🔥 💰 🔥 Link: news.iu.edu/college/live...

Happy to share that the Supplementary Cover Art for our manuscript on Porous and Self-Doped Conjugated Polyelectrolytes (10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01255) is now published in Chemistry of Materials. Thanks to the ScienceBrush design team for the 🔥design!

My lab’s newest preprint is now available. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It is possible to develop open-shell, self-doped, and porous conjugated polyelectrolytes (2D CPEs) by combining the self-doping CPDTSO₃K₂ moiety with archetypal 2D subunits, namely triphenylamine and triphenyltriazine. Out in Chemistry of Materials. 🔥 🔗 : doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01255

I’m happy to share that I’ve been appointed to the ACS JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board. I look forward to contributing to the journal and its editorial board on behalf of early-career researchers. 🔗: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.5c00822

Last month, Kingsley Bortey became the first student from #BEAMSLab to advance to Ph.D. candidacy. We are extremely proud of Kingsley’s growth as a scientist and grateful for his contributions to our lab. More to come soon! 😄

Many thanks to Bipasa Samanta, the postdoc in our group, who performed the calculations and taught me about the connection between bond angles in perovskites and conjugation in organic molecules, and to Ricardo for inviting us to this collaboration.

Do you want to know how to develop water-soluble qubits operable in biologically relevant media? Look no further! 🔥 Thanks to @alexandrubg.bsky.social and Aliaksandra Lisouskaya (from ND) for their contributions to this manuscript. 🔗: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Friday was a bittersweet day ending my time as a postdoc in the Klausen lab. I'm so grateful for @bekkaklausen.bsky.social ongoing mentorship and guidance. It was an amazing experience learning new skills and mentoring younger scientists. Excited to start my independent career at Indiana University!

It's not really a secret anymore, but I wanted to wait until the paperwork was all signed. I'll be starting at Indiana University this fall as an assistant professor in chemistry! The Harvey Group will focus on synthesis and spectroscopy of inorganic nanomaterials. Stay tuned for more.

Happy to have Edward Hickey-Figueroa back with us for our REU experience. He is on the team developing next-gen open-shell conjugated polyelectrolytes for energy transduction and optoelectronic applications.

Happy to have Pamela Murillo Zamora with us for our REU experience. She is working on the team developing next-gen water-soluble conjugated materials for biosensing applications, including quantum probes.

New work with my postdoc Bipasa Samanta on superconducting nickelates. After showing a remarkably strong correlation between in-plane Ni-O-Ni bond angles and Tc in La3Ni2O7, we investigate the effects of other factors (strain, correlations, layer number) on the likely Tc. arxiv.org/abs/2506.11427

may? definitely happening. a student i was recruiting specifically said he declined for this reason. will not come to the US.

Happy to collaborate with Professor Kevin Brown in identifying photocatalyst-dependent transient species responsible for the regio-divergent synthesis of Bicyclo[2.1.1] hexane scaffolds. Cool stuff published in @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Fantastic science this weekend at @iuqcb.bsky.social's Watanabe Symposium. Our grad student @jsrocchio.bsky.social even won the student poster competition! Thanks to @tripletstatesguy.bsky.social, @glycocode.bsky.social and all other speakers for great talks! #IUresearch

In work led by undergraduate student Emily Ward, we show how to build Wannier functions that allow visualization and interpretation of lone pairs in a solid, as well as complex bonding interactions in metal oxyhalides. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Image: a lone pair in BiOCl.

Ready to hang up these cover arts for our ACS Nano paper and Virtual Special Issue on TADF published in JPC C as commemorative displays around the 6th floor at IUB Chemistry.

Thanks again to guest editors of this special collection for the invitation to participate! Really a pleasure to contribute with a pair of articules, together with colleagues from @ctm-itodys.bsky.social and Université de Namur (Institute of Structured Matter) #chemsky #TADF #OLEDs

We are Dosa addicts. How about you?

Happy to share the preface of our virtual special issue on TADF materials! Grateful to the Journal of Physical Chemistry for the opportunity to serve alongside Prof Naoya Aizawa as guest editors, curating this stimulating collection of work. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c00333

makes you wonder if @acs.org ever considered running a Superbowl ad

My lab has a new preprint that is available! 🧵below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our group at Indiana University Bloomington is getting bigger! Minh and Dhari were missed.

Catching up with Professor Doumon and part of the conjugated polyelectrolytes squad! Lots of new CPE-related work to get published this year.🔥 #CPEs

Happy to share the Supplementary Cover Art for the RPS-FLIM manuscript, now published in ACS Nano. Thanks to ScienceBrush Design for delivering such a cool and representative illustration. #TheFutureIsLifetime

Contento de presentar en la Sociedad Dominicana de Física (SoDoFi).

Biological nanoparticles, anyone? RPS-FLIM combines the benefits of resistive-pulse sensing (RPS) and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to differentiate dye-labeled biological nanoparticles by size, charge, and membrane composition. #ACSNano doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c10813

Pick up one arroz con dulce and pass along the other containers. 🇵🇷

Happy to participate and contribute to Caribbean science with one of the plenary talks at te VI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Dominicana de Física (VI CI-SoDoFi 2025).

RIP Rickey Henderson

Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 ⛄️

Post a PERFECT album from the 90’s that is neither Nirvana nor Pearl Jam.

Since it's the season, I made this video on how I structured my faculty job talk for Chemistry/Mat Sci/Physics Departments when I was interviewing. Apologies for the black square on the title slide: youtu.be/mXZlJ2PQ6jI

Happy to share our recent Perspective published in JACS Au, in which we elaborate on why conjugated oligoelectrolytes (COEs) and conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) are leading materials for bioanalytical and electrochemical applications. doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c00789