Rob Macfarlane

Multivalent Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles as Reinforcing Fillers for 3D Printable Self-Healing Elastomers By @Macfarlane_RJ, Carl J. Thrasher et al. @MIT @miamiuniversity Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/bo8

Related paper: Enabling three-dimensional real-space analysis of ionic colloidal crystallization @SacannaGroup @glenhocky nature.com/articles/s4156…

News & Views: Illuminating defects in crystal clear colloidal assemblies @Macfarlane_RJ nature.com/articles/s4156…

Rationally Designing the Supramolecular Interfaces of Nanoparticle Superlattices with Multivalent Polymers | Journal of the American Chemical Society @mit_dmse @MIT #Supramolecular #Nanoparticle #Superlattice #Polymer pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

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Researchers @MITMechE and @mit_dmse present a route for programmable mechanical properties of nanocomposite tectons. 💡 Shaping NCTs enables programming of their stiffness and strength. @CMPortela @Macfarlane_RJ @mit_dmse Learn more in #NanoLetters 🔗 go.acs.org/5YE

@LabMacfarlane’s POV: #nano and #polymer people should borrow/learn from each other and work together more. Check out our latest Acc. Chem. Res. article for our thoughts on how/why - polymer brushes as nanoparticle ligands! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @ACSPublications @mit @mit_dmse

Recent paper from @CarlosMPortela and @LabMacfarlane measuring the nanomechanical properties of NCT lattices! Great work by Somu and @dryeeseeks, and a big advance in NP superlattice processing and properties characterization. doi.org/10.1021/acs.na… @mit_dmse @NanoLetters @MIT

How can the mechanical properties of self-assembled nanocomposites be programmed? Fun collaboration b/w @Macfarlane_RJ, J. Andrade, and our team @MITMechE demonstrating the tunable mechanical properties of nanocomposite tectons (NCTs). 🔗: doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

Congrats to the 2023 PMSE Early Career Investigator Award recipients. #Polymer #researchers #RisingStars @AmerChemSociety

The dynamic duo, reunited!@JonesMattRob @Macfarlane_RJ

@dryeeseeks Now that you’re an independent PI and not part of the Macfarlane lab anymore, is it acceptable for me to point out that #3 is not something unique to your being in Lausanne? (jk 😁)

(2/2) …and Margaret’s paper on stabilizing Nanocomposite superlattices in gels/solids, in @JChemPhys - “Improving nanoparticle superlattice stability with deformable polymer gels” doi.org/10.1063/5.0130… nice work Drs Zornberg and Lee! @mit_dmse @MIT

(1/2) Two new manuscripts from recently graduated Macfarlanites: first is Leo’s paper on making DNA-programmed superlattices into functional optical devices in @acsnano - “Self-Assembling Systems for Optical Out-of-Plane Coupling Devices” pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102… @mit_dmse @MIT

Seeing your own face on @MIT's frontpage is so weird... Not sure the kid who started as a chem major at @willamette_u would believe it. Honored to be here and grateful to @mit_dmse, @CHADNANO, @atwaterharry, @annvalentine, RHG, and the Macfarlanites. web.mit.edu/spotlight/desi…

Thank you!! Very fun couple of days returning to MIT to talk about what my lab is up to, and catch up with @DrRituRaman @afurst1 @lennon_luo @Macfarlane_RJ @MzTaraAnn @_SumanB @dryeeseeks and meet with so many students, postdocs, and faculty!