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Postdoctoral Fellow Liang Feng has been selected as a 2021 American Chemical Society PMSE Future Faculty Scholar. The goal of the annual PMSE Future Faculty Symposium is to highlight and provide a forum for ~15 postdocs working on polymeric materials who will be applying for academic positions during that year, i.e., for appointments beginning the next year in 2022.

Former Stoddart group postdoctoral fellow (2011-2015) Chenfeng Ke, now Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College, was selected as a 2021 American Chemical Society PMSE Young Investigator. The annual PMSE Young Investigator Symposium highlights and provides a forum for around 15 early-career emerging leaders who have made significant contributions in their respective fields within polymer

Molecular architectures with topologies exist both in everyday life and in the microscopic world. Examples can be found ranging from shoelaces, fishing nets and traditional Chinese knots to knotted strands that have been identified in DNA and proteins. In an attempt to control molecular topology and understand its special features at the nanoscopic level, chemists

A review article entitled Radical-Pairing-Induced Molecular Assembly and Motion has been published in Nature Review Chemistry by Kang Cai and Long Zhang. Free radicals pervade all aspects of chemistry, from synthetic mechanisms to materials science to biological chemistry. For some conjugated radicals, they may tend to form multiple-centered π-bonded, spin-paired dimers, a process which is