Swager Group

Kudos to Jesús and Benedikt for their excellence in mentorship and contribution to the Swager lab! What an awesome time to be a part of the lobster team (or Mantis shrimps?)! 🦞🦐🍤

We are back with a great news from PolyJoule, an MIT spinout headquartered in Billerica, MA, found by Prof. Ian Hunter and our very own boss! Basically, a battery that you can put a blow torch to, and it won't burn! Check the details below 👇 batteriesnews.com/polyjoule-unve…

Check out our new paper in @NanoLetters on ultrasensitive hydrogen detection with n-type conjugated polymers! Excellent work by postdoc @Bergy_Dunitz and former undergrad Kae Hoang! doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

🍻🥩: Yesterday, several of the 🦞’s went out for a dinner to send our best wishes to Hayeon Kim, an exchange Ph.D. student from @KAIST_CBE. We wish her all the best in her upcoming journey, and hopefully she had many great memories with the lab members!

@JACS_Au @AFResearchLab Here is the link to the article if you are interested to know what our scientists came up with: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

📰: Our recent publication in @JACS_Au introduces a new method to functionalize PFA coil reactors with different photocatalysts through fluorophilic interactions, which can help configure flow reactors for reactions on scale. Congrats to Benedikt, Jesús, and @AFResearchLab team!

🆕 labmate: A late introduction, but we warmly welcome Dr. Yuki Hata who's from Nagoya, 🇯🇵. He got his B.S. from Yokohama National University and his Master's from @UTokyo_News_en before working for Nippon Steel and getting his Ph.D. from @NagoyaUniv concurrently. Stay tuned!

🆕 lab member: We welcome Dr. Davide Zanetti, who recently joined our lab as a FWF postdoc fellow! He obtained his BSc and then MSc from @unito/@icmabCSIC and then PhD from @univienna. He will explore redox-active organic systems and magneto-optical materials soon. Stay tuned!

Our Faraday paper with @SwagerGroup is now out in all its glory! nature.com/articles/s4146… @OxfordChemistry @SPC_Oxford

🍎🍏🍂: Last weekend, our lab members went to Honey Pot Hill Orchards, just ~45 minutes of driving away from the lab, to enjoy some apple cider donuts and freshly picked apples! Presented below are beautiful pictures from Ming's camera, and stay tuned for more beautiful photos!

🖼️'s from the award ceremony! @ColletteGordon9, a NOBCChE collaborative student representative, and Jennifer represented MIT at the Graduate School Fair at the NOBCChE conference. FYI, Tim serves as MIT faculty representative. Also, a nice reunion with former MSRP alumnus Arinze!

🫡: A belated post, but we are happy to celebrate our group members presenting at the NOBCChE conference last month! @ColletteGordon9 and Jennifer represented our group while reuniting with @KaylaStorme, Andy, and Eric. Collette earned 1st Place in the NSF Innovation Tank Talk!

Better pictures thanks to Ming, our professional photographer and also an enthusiastic postdoc! Featuring @ColletteGordon9, @ericguo0715, @lehoangminh2002, @ChiHsienWang (who left early 😭), @Bergy_Dunitz (honorable mention), and other awesome group members!

From explosives to ketones, all the way to PFAS, ethylene, and finally hydrogen sensing, the story of chemiresistors and biosensors in our lab still continues until today. Reunion with our alumni @RichrdLiu & @lennon_luo @HarvardCCB and a group photo in front of a group picture!

📣: Tim gave the Max Tishler Prize Lecture today @HarvardCCB and got the medallion from our alumnus (and now a faculty member in the Department’s next door to us!) @RichrdLiu. In a breezy day in Cambridge, we got together with our colleagues to listen to Tim’s exciting story 🎉!

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

@UBChemistry @Bergy_Dunitz The above article was published in @J_A_C_S earlier today!

📜🚨: New paper coming to your area! In this work, Daniel showcases an efficient synthesis of FOPCOT, which can be used as organic Faraday rotators. Thank you to our collaborators at @UBChemistry, Molly for her computation, @Bergy_Dunitz, and Peter at XRD! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

📰: Our rising 5th year stars Molly and Daniel along with our postdoc @AlsufyaniMaryam presented their research yesterday at the @ChemistryMIT-@Merck symposium! While you probably have seen Molly's and Maryam's work elsewhere on the net before, stay tuned for Daniel's very soon!

Forgot to mention but we have our awesome postdocs @ChiHsienWang, Ming, Sung Hwa, and the energetic/fabulous graduate students Jennifer, Francesca, Rina, and Tiffany! 🌹🌹🌹

🏐🦞: Repost from MIT Grad Rat Instagram! The lobsters are vibing with the last bit of Cambridge's summer weather before the fall foliage. Can you tell us what and how are our lobsters doing? If not, pay attention to the first picture! Following the heated match is the Muddy's...