March 3

Jacob, Srikant, Xiaomian and Jian attended the APS March meeting in Minneapolis. Jacob, Srikant, and Jian all presented their researches.

February 29

Lizy officially joined us! Exciting!

February 9

Rumoring origin and tradition of lunar new year, led by Kuan-Yu, who also taught many of us how to write in traditional/simplified Chinese, happy new year (新年快乐). One of the best group pictures; everyone is smiling!

Janyary 21

First group gathering in Jian's home, and first of this nature after a long break. Codewords game is fun!

Janyary 11

Lizy started to rotate in the group!

December 8

Adi passed the qual exam, and is now officially a candidate. The group gathered in Alpine Inn (a bit chilly) to celebrate this important milestone and to cheer us up at the end of the quarter!

December 7

Victoria gives a neat poster reporting the results on how chain stiffness affects cluster dimension. It was so nice to have you rotating with us!

October 13

10/13: Wes's ribbon-like chain (RLC) theory on conformational statistics of conjugated polymers is selected as ACS Editors' Choice by Macromolecules!

September 28

Theo and Jacob both presented in Bio-X symposium. Nice opportunity for networking.

September 21

The first year Victoria starts to do rotation in our lab. Welcome!

September 1

Kuan-Yu Lin joined us as a postdoc working on electrochemistry, thanks to the support from Taiwan Science & Technology Hub. Welcome!

August 28

Jialing's show-time, lightening talk and poster!

August 25

Wave the end of Jialing's UGVR stay. Ten weeks was too short, yet the progress were huge. Thanks for visiting, and all the best!

August 24

Keshav presented the poster in towards the end of REU session in Shriram team room! Always proud of undergraduates' achievements. Special thanks to Srikant the mentor.

July 21

Friday afternoon storytime replaced with true happy hour for Paul. Paul will start his postdoc position in Adam Weber's lab at LBNL. "See you again"!

June 26

Jialing joined us as an UGVR student. Welcome!

June 18

Commencement is always a highlight! It is a huge pity that Jian missed it because of travel.

April 21

Farewell party for Mark!

April 18

Congratulations to Xiaomian Yang on receiving the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship!

March 10

Aditya officially joined us as a PhD student!

Marh 4-10

Group attended the APS March meeting in Vegas. Doug, Jacob, Mark, Srikant gave excellent talks or poster presentation.

January 23

Sathya got admitted into MIT PhD program. Warm congratulations!

January 13/17

The first group dinner at Joya in 2023 on January 13! The undergraduates (Doug, Sathya, Xiaomian) joined Jian in faculty club on January 17. Due to the poor planning of Jian, pictures were not taken earlier. So Xiaomian was "inserted".

January 10

Brandi defended. Amazing performance. Congratulations!

December 6

Paul defended, the 5th, and the 1st to do so in-person. Congratulations!

December 3

Holiday party with Zia group. Bye, friends!

October 26

Group happy hour celebrating Srikant pasing the Qual!

September 10

A sub-group attending the first Berkeley-Stanford Soft Matter Symposium.

August 5

KBBQ lab happy hour is back!

July 30

The contact singularity paper by Huada is accepted by Soft Matter. It allows for calculation of exact polarization energy.

June 29

The gel-cluster paper by Doug and Paul is accepted by ACS Polymers Au!

June 12

Commencement 2022! First in-person commencement from the lab.

June 1

Jacob received the Bio-X Graduate Fellowship.

May 10

Paul is recognized by the Community Impact Award of 2022!

April 7

The first group gathering the long "break"!

Mar 31

Brandi joined us as a PhD student coadvied by Prof. Evan Reed and Prof. Tom Devereaux. A warm welcome, Brandi!

Mar 7

Dionysis officially joined us as a PhD student!

Mar 1

Srikant officially joined us as a PhD student!

February 28

Jacob passed the Qual Exam! Pity I did not take a screening shot. But we have many more exciting years to come!

January 28

Wes successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Michaels!

January 3

Srikant started rotation with us!

October 15

Jian is the recipient of the 2022 APS John H. Dillon Medal. Thanks to the first wave of student joining the efforts behind this very special recognition!

September 20

Dionysis and Wrayzene started rotation with us!

August 29

Xian is leaving us for a faculty position in China. All party has an end. Thank you Xian!

July 22

Huada successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Lian!

June 16

The group gathering as we are approaching the end of pandemic! And, there was wine, a year after Kevin's defense.

May 20

Sean successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Friedowitz!

April 16

Xian and Kevin's paper on fluctuation accepted by ACS Macro Letters!

April 9

Sean's refrigerator claimed!

April 5

Wes's PEDTO:PSS DFT paper accepted by Macromolecules!

March 1

Jacob Horne joined the lab!

January 1

The first meeting!

May 26

Kevin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hou!

March 13

Xian's work on chromatic jamming highlighted.

February 13

Paul speaks and presents for 2020 eWear symposium.

February

Wes is recognized by the Community Impact Award of 2019!

January 20

Hiking through windy hill.

January 9

The new year is started with Rum Ham.

November 22

Xian delivered a research talk to the Stanford Polymer Collective (SPC) which summarizes his past work, and provided perspective of his experiences.

November 7

Sean's short detour to Europe in the summer is highlighted by Graduate Research and Internship Program in Germany, which is likely to inspire the next batch of graduate students to explore more broadly.

September 12

Paul presented a poster on "Lithium dendrite suppression by a soft polymer coating" at the eWEAR Symposium.

August 16

The SURF student Alexandra Leonor Ramos Figueroa presented the poster based on her work on simulation of dynamic polymer network. The picture features Alexandra and her mentor Paul.

August 7

The RISE student Trinity Mai presented the poster based on her work on T-Farm. Thanks Wes for the great mentorship.

June 28

A RISE high school stuent, Trinity Mai from Arroyo High School, and a SURF undergraduate, Alexandra Leonor Ramos Figueroa from University of Puerto Rico-Mavaguez, joined us this week! And they already start to enojoy lab happy hour by watching world cup soccer.

June 10

Huada is recognized by the Robert A. Huggins Award by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, which was established in 2009 by the Huggins family on the occasion of Professor Huggins 80th birthday. Prof. Huggins is one of the founding members of the department. Congratulations to Huada on this deserving honor!

May 31

Kevin's artistic rendering of the canonical diblock copolymer phase diagram has won the second prize in the Art of Science Competition. The composition and the symmetry are highlighted with the pattern and the brightness.

May 11

The team sucessfully escaped a training trap from the Theo. Roosevelt office in Palace Games.

May 9

Wes and Paul present in annual poster exhibition of Stanford Polymer Collective.

May 8

Jian with Terry, one of the first (1953) ever batch students of Stanford ChE.

April 27

Warm congratulations to Wes being awarded the Mason Graduate Fellowship by the department, to recognize his dedication and efforts to the department and for serving the graduate student community as part of the Action Committee! Wes will be presented the fellowship during the Mason lecture ceremony. The picture features Wes being hornored during the Mason lecture ceremony on May 8.

What did Wes say after all these? "Not all superheroes wear capes."

April 27

Had a very informative chat with Prof. Olvera de la Cruz and Sean in Jian's office. Thanks Sean for taking the picture!

April 15

Paul is smiling after solving the lithium dendrite growth problem during the Boston Marathon.

April 9

Congratulations to Jason Qin on receiving the NSF graduate fellwoship based on his rotation project on the calculation of chromatic entropy.

April 4

The first Happy Hour of the group in the first week of Spring quarter! An electrica piano keyboard, and a guitar joined. A new card game, as mysterious as usual, was played. And yes, Sevahn has a bright smile. The PI just realized that it has been a long time since he plays table tennis last time.

March 4-8

Wes, Huada, and Xian attended the APS march meeting presenting their researches in Boston. Wes talked about the force field parameterization of PEDOT:PSS. Huada talked about the dielectric virial expansion for nano-particle composite. Xian talked about coarse-grained modeling of lithium dendrite growth near lithium anode, which he was working on with Paul. Jian attended too, and presented Sean's research on complexation of homologous polyions.

February 15

Sometimes beer die is not enough. You just have to be in Devil Canyon Brewing to get a byte of band. It is weird that Wes and Sean are absent from the brewery. Time stops when kids and dogs are listening quietly.

February 2

Beer die beats Mario-Kart to become the official game of the lab because, as is clear, not everyone is paying attention while playing Mario-Kart though somes does.

November 30

Annual group Thanksgiving Party! This group is not tired of Q-Port yet.

November

The group was awarded the NSF CAREER based on Kevin's work on dielectric screening in structured electrolytes, right before Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving!

October

Jian attended AIChE annual meeting in Pittsburgh presiding sessions and presenting the results on polyelectrolytes.

August 8

Frank visited and spoke for Stanford Polymer Collective (SPC).

September

Paul passed Qual. Congratulations! Sevahn's rotation ended. Matthew and Jason are rotating in the Fall. A new academic year!

August 8

Thanh's poster presentation during the last day of the RISE program. Among many other things, she wrote the script to recognize the image and digitize the thermodynamic table! Thanks to Kevin and Sean for mentoring. Best wishes to Thanh! (Paul is too sad so closed his eyes.)

July 17

In Cactus garden. Back from lunch in Palo Alto downtown, welcoming Thanh and Sevahn.

June 19

Guoxi graduated and moved back to Beijing to work for a startup company. Best wishes!

May 22

Warm congratulations to Kevin on being recognized by the Centennial TA award! His exemplary service made the Stat. Mech. class order of magnitude easier.

April 20

The first joint Zia-Qin group happy hour!

April 3

A warm congratulations to Paul on receiving the NGF!

March 30

Kyle graduated and moved to Oakland to pursue a career in Music!

March 9

Paul join the group as the PhD student!

March 5-9

Sean, Kevin, Huada, Guoxi, and Jian attended the APS march meeting in LA. Sean spoke about his work on charge association effects in polyelectrolyte solutions. Kevin spoke about his work on the competition of ion solvation with entropy. Huada presented a poster on his work on modeling of ladder polymers. Guoxi presented a poster on his work on all-atom simulation of concatenated polyethylene rings.

February

Huada was enrolled into the PhD program of materials science!

November 19

Annual group Thanksgiving Party!

November

Our collaborator, the creator of Beauty of Science, Yan Liang is highlighted by C&EN.

September 22

Wes passed qualification exam. Now you are a candidate. Congratulations!

September

Xian Kong joined us as a postdoc researcher and Eric Zhao joined us as a rotation student.

August 9

Thanh presents a poster summarizing her work done during the summer, which initializes the T-farm database construction. This is the last day of Thanh staying in the lab as a visiting student supported by the RISE program. We had a lot of fun together. We wish her all the best!

July 15

Group bowling night. Kyle, Thanh and Gruoxi are watching Menghao bowling while Wes appears to be chatting with Huada trying to find out where Sean and Kevin have been.

Jun. 12

Jian is selected as a Hellman Scholar 2017-2018.

May 19

Group photo day.

May 5

Group gathering in Jian's home, featuring Shish Kebab.

March 3

ACS-Macro Editor Tim Lodge kickstarts 50th Anniversary celebrations for Macromolecules during the ACS annual spring meeting in San Francisco which Jian attended on Sunday March 2. The canonical phase diagram produced by Ludwik Leibler in 1980 was highlighted in Tim's talk.

March 17

Congratulations to Wes winning the NSF Graduate Fellowship, and to Sean receiving an Honorable Mention!

March 11-16

Kevin and Jian attend the APS march meeting, 2017, in New Orleans. Kevin presented a poster on his work related to the phase diagram of salt-doped diblock copolymers. Jian, who unfortunately only showed up on Wednesday and Thursday, gave an oral presentation on how charge connectivity changes the polyelectrolyte complexation behavior. It is exciting. Great to meet all the colleagues and to mingle with people sharing the same passion about polymer and physics.

March 10

Mr. Michaels finishing riding a mechanical bull. Can he still walk in straight line?

March 3

The group has a Logo---Thanks to Kevin Jia-Yu Hou's hard and marvelous work!

Mar. 2

Wes Michaels joined the group as PhD student!

Feb. 12

Jian received the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award for work related to entanglement.

January

Sean Friedowitz joined officially as PhD student!

January

Wes Michaels, Thomas K. Ludwig, and Bob Feng joined as rotation students.

January 2

There is no better way to start a new year with receiving the following icy picture of Lake Michigan front from Tom. It's taken on January 1, 2017.

December

Christmas 2016 party.

November

Kyle Gustafson speaks in the AIChE annual meeting on polarization of dipolar particles.

October

Huada Lian joined us as rotation student.

September

Jeremy Binagia and Sean Friedowitz joined as rotation student.

September

Kevin and Kyle passed qualification exam. Congratulations!

July

The group received the Precourt Seed Grant for collaborative work with Bao group.

July

Cover image from Macromolecules highlighting our work. "$. Hello User! The Polymer Self-Consistent Field Theory (PSCF) code is on your PATH and ready to run."

July 22

Joint happy hour BBQ with theoreticians from Andy's lab.

May 26

Kevin is awarded Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Well done!

May 20

"How do you design a better polymer?" A media highlight of our work on polymer entanglement.

May 11

Jian visited Argonne national lab delivering a talk on polyelectrolyte in a workshop on ionic soft matters.

May 9

CJ Paige joined our group. Welcome!

April

Our presentation with collaborators on a novel education practice was accepted by the ICCS 2016 conference. Title: A Hybrid Human-Computer Approach to the Extraction of Scientific Facts from the Literature. Authors: Roselyne Tchoua, Mladen Rasic, Jian Qin, Debra Audus, Kyle Chard, Juan de Pablo, Ian Foster.

Mar. 28

Prof. Karl Freed visited us.

Mar. 18

Jian visited Penn State University and had very enjoyable conversations with Prof. Ralph Colby.

Feb. 25

Kyle Steven Gustafson joined us as PhD student. Cheers!

Feb. 9

Kevin Jia-yu Hou joined us as PhD student. Cheers!

Jan. 22

Opening of six labs in Shriram!

Jan. 1

Day one.