Simona Fine

new paper alert! here, we study how controlling the polymerization kinetics of ethyl cellulose-poly(acrylic acid) composites allows for tunable structural color. we envision our materials as a replacement for traditionally-colored plastics @SPInLabNU advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

How can we make fashion more sustainable? Northwestern Engineering’s Cécile Chazot is developing recyclable polymers that could transform how textiles are made and reused. Read more in this Northwestern Magazine profile: spr.ly/601046SY6 @CraftyMatSci @SPInLabNU

We’re so proud of Charmaine for presenting her work on tunable, structurally-colored films at the 2025 Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition🪲🦋 As the spring quarter wraps up, we’d like to thank our wonderful undergrads for all of their hard work🫶 Have a great summer!

my first trip to Seattle for #S25MRS has been a blast so far and I'm thrilled to be presenting my work on structurally-colored alternatives to plastic tomorrow (9:15-9:30 am, SU02.08.03)

I'm excited to be attending my first @Materials_MRS meeting and can't wait to share my research on structurally-colored cellulose composites on Thursday (1:45-2 pm, SB11.11.01) #F24MRS

It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all @TrubyLab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, @NehaPKamat, @simonaf1ne and @SPInLabNU for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!

New group photo just dropped👻 Happy Halloween!

becoming a PhD candidate ✅

And our latest publication by @simonaf1ne made the supplemental cover of @MacroJrnls_ACS Biomacromolecules! Simona designed and executed this cover herself ! Learn more about this work: doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

There is still time for undergraduates to apply for MICRO this year and conduct paid research with a lab @MIT @mit_dmse and @NorthwesternU! Applications close on 8/5. Help us spread the word . mse-micro.net/take-action

come check out poster #71 at @Po_W_E_R tomorrow to hear about structurally-colored cellulosic materials and composites!

@sankalp_kg congrats!!!

I am happy to have received the 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 at the MSE awards banquet, as well as the 𝑻𝑨 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 paper plate award (cute design) at dept barbecue. I am thankful for the nominations and grateful for all the love from my students!

thrilled that this paper was published in Biomacromolecules today! we studied how the time-resolved appearance of macroscopic structural color in cellulose-based liquid crystals reflects the nano- and microscale cholesteric self-assembly kinetics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New publication from @simonaf1ne and @SPInLabNU is now out in @MacroJrnls_ACS Biomacromolecules ! We elucidate how polymer chain mobility affects cholesteric liquid crystal self-assembly kinetics and optical properties. doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

I had an amazing time in Les Diablerets at the Bioinspired Materials @GordonConf meeting brilliant researchers, learning about bioinspired systems through multiple scientific lenses, and presenting my research in a GRS talk and GRC poster! First conference ✅

I am @GordonConf Bioinspired Materials GRC this week in Les Diablerets !🇨🇭 @simonaf1ne is also representing our amazing team @SPInLabNU : as a second year grad student (!!!) she gave her talk at the GRS and knocked it out of the park ! 😎 Stop by her poster #13 on Tuesday! 🍀

In honor of Earth Day 2024, with the theme of Planet vs. Plastics, I'm sharing infographics I made for a science communication course that explore some of the materials science challenges associated with making plastics more sustainable

@abhinavroy1999 congrats!

Excited to share the pre-print of my latest paper which completes the percolation theory of passivation for binary alloys. Looking forward to comments/feedback from the community. #PhD #research Link: arxiv.org/abs/2401.13954

@shimajiro_III @ChrisWolverton1 @ACS4Authors @ChemMater congrats!

Thrilled to share that our figure made it to the cover of Chem. Mater.! Designing this cover was a blast - my first journal cover experience! Huge thanks to our PI and our co-authors for making this journey unforgettable. @ChrisWolverton1 #MyACSCover @ACS4Authors @ChemMater

And our paper made a cover ! Thanks to @OznamTV who designed and drew this beautiful cover art for us. Go check it out : Cover - pubs.acs.org/toc/cmatex/35/… Article - doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…