Patty Gumbley, Syena Sarrafpour, Zach Smith, Damla Koylu, Rob Pawle, Esra Korkut, Sam Thomas, Dmitriy Pukhov, and Jingjing Zhang
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• February 2013: We have been selected for a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award!
• January 2013: Our paper titled "Furan-Containing Singlet Oxygen-Responsive Conjugated Polymers" by Altinok, Friedle, and Thomas has been accepted for publication in Macromolecules. You can find the paper HERE.
• January 2013: Patty Gumbley is selected for a GAANN Award. Congratulations Patty!
• November 2012: Welcome to our new group members: first-year graduate students Rom Baral and Xiaoran Hu.
• September 2012: Welcome to our new group members: Tufts undergrads Ankita Agarwal and Trey Lawrence.
• September 2012: An invited Talent Article highlighting some of our research accomplishments has been accepted for publication in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. You can access it HERE.
• August 2012: An NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant has been awarded to Tufts (Thomas co-PI) for a new X-Ray diffractometer.
• August 2012: Our recent ACS Macro Letters paper is highlighted in the September 2012 issue of Synfacts.
• August 2012: Our paper titled "Acene-Doped Polymer Films: Singlet Oxygen Dosimetry and Protein Sensing" by Koylu, Sarrafpour, Zhang, Ramjattan, Panzer, and Thomas has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications. The link to the paper is HERE.
• July 2012: Our recent ACS Macro Lett. paper is at the top of this month's most read list.
• June 2012: Our paper titled "Photoinduced Aggregation of Polythiophenes" by Smith, Pawle, and Thomas has been accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters. You can see the paper HERE.
• May 2012: Sam is profiled on the Journal of Materials Chemistry blog. Read it HERE.
• May 2012: Welcome to new group member, first-year graduate student Dmitriy Pukhov!
• April 2012: Our J. Mater. Chem. on crowded tetracenes has been highlighted on the Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog as a "Hot Article". You can see the write-up HERE.
• April 2012: Our lab is selected for an award for the Tufts University Open Access Fund to enable making our recent J. Mater. Chem. paper freely available.
• February 2012: Our paper titled "Structure, Photophysics, and Photooxidation of Crowded Diethynyltetracenes" by Zhang, Sarrafpour, Haas, Müller, and Thomas has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry. Link to the paper HERE.
• January 2012: Our paper titled "Photochemical Disruption of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers" by Koylu, Thapa, Gumbley, and Thomas has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Link to the paper HERE.
• January 2012: We are selected by the National Science Foundation for a 2012 CAREER award! This grant will fund research in photoresponsive charge-shifting polymers, as well as community college outreach and science fair mentoring.