TheLessardLab

Our first publication of 2026 is out in @J_A_C_S now! #Graham and friends electrochemically depolymerized PMMA, with greater than 95% depolymerization observed! @ERG_Chem @AustinMEvans @ButlerPolymer pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Research paper #2 from our group just dropped as Open Access in Adv Materials. In this paper, we probe pendant length in frontal polymerization and the resulting material properties. @KA_Stew absolutely crushed this one, check it out! @JacobJLessard1 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

@angew_chem @JacobJLessard1 @UtahChemistry Thanks for the post!

What is the one research question @JacobJLessard1 (@LessardLab, @UtahChemistry) would most like to answer? Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page. twitter.com/16467437/statu… • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Our first paper on controlling molecular weight in Frontal Polymerization is live as Hot Paper in Angew. Chem. Check is out! @KA_Stew @JacobJLessard1 @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

@lab_luo @Pittcon @waynestatechem @UtahChemistry @MinteerLab @chemsnu @mpicec_press @baker_grp Congrats!

It is my great honor to receive the @Pittcon achievement award! Thanks to all the current and former students for their hard work @waynestatechem @UtahChemistry! Also, thanks to @MinteerLab, TD @chemsnu, Siegi @mpicec_press, and Lane @baker_grp for the continued support!

Crispy new paper out now in @ChemicalScience! @cabelleades27 and pals used aqueous PISA as a tool to avoid high viscosities typically obtained during UHMW polymer synthesis! Also got some massive polymer microparticles in the process. @Brent_Sumerlin tinyurl.com/SaltyPISA

Lab is branded!

@LowDispersity Glad to see the Fors and Sumerlin’s memes again

our lab's spotify wrapped just came out! no judgement please

It was our pleasure (@SwansonGroup_UT) to highlight the latest on lasso peptide folding and substrate–cyclase tolerance from the Shukla, Burk, and Mitchell teams at @ChemistryUIUC @ChBEIllinois @lassogen: nature.com/articles/s4158…

please check out our latest deaminative contraction method to prepare pyrido[n]helicenes @UtahChemistry chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

check out the latest from @lab_luo @UtahChemistry

“Fit” the load frame in the instrument room

A straightforward method for achieving modular polyimine vitrimers from partially bioderived polystyrene copolymers/crosslinkers. A special thank you to a slew of talented undergraduate (and highschool!) mentees for all their hard work on this project. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New Group Website is up! Still a work in progress but feel free to check it out! chem.utah.edu/directory/Less…

@SobieKristin innovative group funding strategies

@LessardLab Oh I’d be so screwed with a lab swear jar 😂😂

Found a $2 on the floor outside my lab. Thank you to the previous owner for your donation to the Lessard Lab

@agr_chemistry Thank you for your donation

@LessardLab that's mine, but you can have it

Super stoked to have been a small part of this super cool paper on FP patterning just published in @Nature. Huge congrats to the team and especially Justine for exceptional work! @Mechanophore @BeckmanIllinois Press Release beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/art… Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@oljasimoska Thank you! Excited to get some research out soon! :D

@LessardLab Very nice!!!!! Exciting to see your lab space coming together. 😀

Lab kitchenette is decked out now