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Li found the nanoparticle segregation by accident when printing colloidal inks. The segregation was difficult to get rid of. I suggested that why don’t we use it? Li used the segregation to make so beautiful color patterns.

Our work on one-step, mask-free structural colour patterning via tunable nanoparticle segregation was published on Nature Communications. Big congrats to my PhD student, Li. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our work about the inverse design of structural colors in bottlebrush block copolymers was highlighted by C&EN: Chemistry in Pictures: Predicting a polymer palette cen.acs.org/materials/poly…

Our work on Inverse design of structural colours in polymeric films with crystallization-induced reversible thermochromism is published on Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Finished my first ever FULL marathon at Chengdu! My PB 4:22, not too bad

Finished ACS Fall conference and arrived at Phoenix city to test how I can stand the heat

finished my US academic trip with attending a GRC conference and visits to several universities in the New England area.

Rui @RuiHuangUTAus and I have just completed a draft of a textbook titled— Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Polymers The book is limited to reversible thermodynamic processes of polymer networks. We would value your comments. Please kindly retweet. docs.google.com/document/d/1BW…

It took one month to find reviewers, but no one accepts to review the paper. what is wrong with reviewing system?

Our review on “Electrically Triggered Color‐Changing Materials” is published in Advanced Optical Materials. We’re the first to put pigmentary and structural colors together for detailed comparative discussion in the context of electrochromic materials. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Submitted my first research with me being the only corresponding author since I started my own lab. Finger crossed

US trip ended with meeting postdoc advisor Vinny Manoharan and collaborator David Clarke. Benefited a lot again from talk with them. Just arrived at Hongkong and getting my self ready to go back to work!

EL05: Soft optics session is amazing. Glad to meet new and old friends Looking forward to present my talk tomorrow morning. #F23MRS

Lucky to know Lakers plays with Cavs last night. Drove directly to the arena right after landing. Surprised to see Quicken loans is changed to Rocket Mortgage. When I entered the arena after 1 hour of traffic, the third quarter already started. Enjoyed the live game a lot!

Super excited to go back to Akron after almost six years. Looking forward to see old and new friends there.

@arthijayaraman maybe it is the right time to have a break now.

@JennyPeteya congrats on your new position!

@Longyu_Li88 congrats! You are becoming Agnew King

My second Angew as the corresponding author is coming up faster than I thought. We showed that TFR allows the equilibration between irreversible enol-to-keto tautomerization and dynamic imine bonds to produce β-ketoenamine-linked macrocycles and highly crystalline COFs.

It is right sometime, although it is a joke