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Materials scientists and organic chemists @Purdue, with a twist of biology. It’s all about function.

Joined October 2018
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WeiGroup@Purdue retweeted
Chemistry makes plastics and Biology makes biopolymers, right? Writing in @J_A_C_S, we showed chemical polymerization makes #polysaccharide, too: Precision Cellulose from Living Cationic Polymerization of Glucose 1,2,4-Orthopivalates @ChemtryBC #glycotime pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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1️⃣ vs. 3️⃣ Billed as the Game of the Year. It did not disappoint. 🎞️ The cinematic highlights from the win over No. 1 Arizona.
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College of Science and College of Engineering jointly search for candidates to fill positions in Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Advanced Materials. The review starts on Dec 8th. ⁦⁦@PurdueChemistry⁩ ⁦@PurdueEngineers⁩ careers.purdue.edu/job/West-…
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WeiGroup@Purdue retweeted
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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Applying to grad school can be expensive, so this year Purdue Chemistry is paying the application fee for qualifying U.S. citizens or permanent residents applying to our PhD program for Fall 2024 admission. Learn more: bit.ly/24CHMAppOffer
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Our department is hiring! We have a faculty opening in the area of physical chemistry. The link to apply is in our main departmental page below. Be our colleague in a great department in the sunny SoCal. Please spread the word by retweeting this. dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/
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Congratulations to alumna Susannah Cox Banzinger for being named to the C&EN Talented 12 for 2023! cen.acs.org/people/profiles/…
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Fire hazards are all too common in chemistry labs. That's why NU's Office of Research Safety developed a comprehensive fire extinguisher training program. 🧯🔥 #firesafetytraining #NUChem
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Fascinating and frightening video of flame jetting- can happen when pouring a bottle of flammable liquid over an open flame (sensitive scene at 3:25) youtube.com/watch?v=5sfUl6GI…
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Thanks to our prestigious 2023 H.C. Brown Lecturers! -Nobel laureate Benjamin List with Severin Schneebeli -Margaret Brimble with Jianguo Mei -Véronique Gouverneur with P. Ramachandran -Mark Lautens with Mark Lipton
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WeiGroup@Purdue retweeted
Veronique Gouverneur from Oxford talking fluorinated molecules #HCBrownLectures @PurdueChemistry
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A nice dinner concludes the 38th H C Brown Symposium. Thanks to HCB for his legacy which allows to invite distinguished guests like Ben List (2022 H C B awardee) Margaret Brimble, Veronique Gouverneur and @MarkLautens (2021 awardee) for the Brown Lectures.
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WeiGroup@Purdue retweeted
We’ve been upping our snack game this year. It’s a small weekly source of joy and there’s always a fun rapport at the beginning of lab meeting each week. Thanks to Josh for placing orders and keeping us happily surprised and guessing each week. #mochinut 🍡🍩
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The 38th H C Brown Lectures will be held @PurdueChemistry on April 14, featuring Ben List (2022), @BrimbleM @GouverneurGroup and @MarkLautens (2021) chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectu… The registration is free, and lunch is provided. Welcome people from neighboring communities.
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#InternationalWomensDay celebrating our amazing faculty members!
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Greetings everyone, I'm glad to participate in #RSCPoster 2023 @RoySocChem. My work is all about the role of light stimuli on a small organic fluorophore leading to NO release, FONs formation and organelle switching. #RSCChemBio, #RSCMat, #RSCNano. The HD poster is in comment.
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Single-use pH electrodes designed by @wei_group can tolerate gamma radiation and retain accuracy many days after single-point calibration, for use with sterile bioreactors or biomedical devices. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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5 - Python for Everybody Specialization Learn to Program and Analyze Data with Python. Develop programs to gather, clean, analyze, and visualize data from this amazing course from the University of MICHIGAN in.coursera.org/specializati…
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