Group News
November 2024:
Congratulations to current lab members Dr. Xin Liu and Dr. Yucheng Zhao and former group member Dr. Alex Green on their new publication "Photocatalytic C-F bond activation in small molecules and polyfluoroalkyl substances" in collaboration with the Damrauer and Paton groups!. Check out their paper published in Nature! Read More
August 2024:
Congratulations to current lab members Dr. Xin Liu, Brandon and former group members Dr. Cameron Chrisman and Analiese Wiedenbeck on their new publication "Organocatalyzed Carbonylation of Alkyl Halides Driven by Visible Light". Check out their paper published in Angewandte! Read More
Congrats to the group for receiving the Advanced Industries grant for the fourth time! Please check out the article published by CSU STRATA. Read More
June 2024:
Congratulations to current postdoc Dr. Zhitao Hu and graduate student Dr. Simone Bernsten on their new publication "Terpenoid-based high-performance polyester with tacticity-independent crystallinity and chemical circularity" in collaboration with Eugene Y.-X. Chen's group! Check out the paper published in Chem! Read More
January 2024:
Congrats to current group member Alex on his publication in ACS Catalysis titled "Mechanistic Investigation of a Photocatalyst Model Reveals Function by Perylene-Like Closed Shell Super-Photoreductant Capable of Reducing Unactivated Arenes".Read More
October 2023:
We have had two exciting new publications this month!
Current group member Katrina Puffer and former group member Daniel Corbin published "Impact of Alkyl Core Substitution Kinetics in Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts on Properties and Performance in O-ATRP" in ACS Catalysis! Read More
Yucheng, Emma, Katherine, and Hubert also published their work "Chemically recyclable polyolefin-like multiblock polymers" in Science! Read More
September 2023:
Congratulations to all involved in the launch of the new CSU-Lead NSF Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (SuPRCat)! The incredible team of 12 researchers from across Colorado and the U.S. celebrated being one of three selected to receive funding from the NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation. Read More
July 2023:
Congratulations to Garret and the group for being named a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists! Great work everyone! Read More
June 2023:
Check out the recent publication "Visible-Light-Promoted C-S Cross-Coupling Reaction for Synthesis of Aromatic Thioethers" in Organic Synthesis by former group members Dr. Chern-Hooi Lim and Dr. Bin Liu! Read More
Congrats to New Iridium for their feature in Nature Outlook: The Spinoff Prize 2023! See the article here. Read More
Congratulations to group member Emma Rettner for receiving an Honorable Mention for the IBUILD 2022 Cohort Fellowship application! Read More
May 2023:
Congratulations again to Cameron Chrisman, Katrina Puffer, Trevor Stewart, and Max Kudisch for their paper "Halide NonInnocence and Direct PhotoReduction of Ni(II) Enables Coupling of Aryl Chlorides in Dual Catalytic, Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions" being published in JACS! View the article here. Read More
April 2023:
Congratulations to Anna Wolff for receiving an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. We are so proud of you and all of your hard work! Read More
March 2023:
Congratulations to group members Cameron Chrisman, Katrina Puffer, and Trevor Stewart, and former group member Max Kudisch for their paper "Halide Non-Innocence and Direct Photo-Reduction of Ni(II) Enables Coupling of Aryl Chlorides in Dual Catalytic, Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions" being published on ChemRxiv! View the article here. Read More
February 2023:
We are excited to have Kun Liu join us as a postdoctoral scholar! Welcome, Kun!
December 2022:
We are excited to welcome two new first year chemistry graduate students: Jessica Lathrop and Sara Robinson! We are also excited to have one first year materials science and engineering student: Megan Battson!
November 2022:
Congratulations to Emma for winning 1st place for the Great Minds in Research Award (Office of Vice President for Research) at the Graduate Student Showcase this month! Great work, Emma!
October 2022:
Congratulations to former group member Felipe for publishing his paper in collaboration with the Srubar Group at CU Boulder! See the article in ACS Applied Polymer Materials here. Read More
September 2022:
Congrats to Katie for being chosen for the cover of Journal of Polymer Science! Nice work, Katie! See the edition here. Read More
August 2022:
Welcome new postdoc, Amreen! We are excited to have you join our team!
July 2022:
Congratulations to Katie Chism and Daniel Corbin for their publication in the Journal of Polymer Science titled "Removal of Photoredox Catalysts from Polymers Synthesized by Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" Read More
June 2022:
Congratulations to Katrina Puffer and former group member Daniel Corbin on publishing their paper in collaboration with the Patureau group titled "Effects of the Chalcogenide Identity in N-Aryl Phenochalcogenazine Photoredox Catalysts" in ChemCatChem! Read More
We are excited to welcome new postdoc, Hubert!
April 2022:
Congrats to Alex for winning first place in the poster showcase for Excellence in Energy at the CSU Demo Day!
Congratulations to Katrina on receiving an Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP! Great work Katrina!
March 2022:
Congratulations to Daniel for successfully defending his thesis! Daniel will be working as a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. We will miss having Daniel in the group and wish him the best of luck!
Congratulations to our undergraduate Katie for winning the first place award for her oral presentation in the Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science Symposium in POLY at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego! Good job Katie!
February 2022:
We are excited to welcome two new postdocs into our group: Xin Liu and Yucheng Zhao!
January 2022:
We are excited to welcome three first year graduate students to the group: Anna, Emma, and Getnet!
November 2021:
Congrats to Daniel and former group postdoc Nick for their book chapter titled "Fundamentals of Photochemical Redox Reactions" being published in Organic Photoredox Chemistry! Read More
Congrats to Daniel for his review titled "Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (O-ATRP): Precision Polymer Synthesis Using Organic Photoredox Catalysis" being published in Chemical Reviews! Read More
October 2021:
Congrats to current group members Mariel and Katrina, and former group member Max, for their publication titled "Structure–Property Relationships of Core-Substituted Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Organic Photoredox Catalysts and their Application in O-ATRP" being published in Polymer Chemistry! Read More
September 2021:
Congratulations to New Iridium being named a 2021 finalist for the Biomimicry Institute's "Ray of Hope Prize"! Read More
Congrats to Chern-Hooi Lim for being recognized as one of C&EN's "Talented Twelve" for his innovations in photocatalysis at New Iridium! Read More
July 2021:
Congratulations to Max for successfully defending his thesis! Max will be starting his postdoctoral studies with the Grubbs Group at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. We will miss having Max in the group and wish him the best of luck!
Congrats to former Miyake group postdoc Scott on his collaborative paper with Richard Finke and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós titled "Carbon-Electrode-Mediated Electrochemical Synthesis of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Using Water as the O-Atom Source" being published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering! Read More
June 2021:
Congrats to Olivia on completing her Master's studies and starting a new position at Sartomer and to Kyle for finishing his PhD studies! We wish you both the best of luck!
Congrats to former group members Tara, Kyle, Rob, and Kaushik on their collaborative paper with the Srubar Group (CU Boulder) titled "Mechanical evaluation of 3D printed biomimetic non-Euclidean saddle geometries mimicking the mantis shrimp" being published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics! Read More
May 2021:
Congrats to Dan, Katrina, Katie, and former group members Justin, Jordan, Blaine, Bonnie, Chern, and Sarah on their paper titled "Radical Addition to N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts and Implications in Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules! Read More
Congrats to Dan, Blaine, and Zach on their paper titled "Radical Cations of Phenoxazine and Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts and Their Role as Deactivators in Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being published in Macromolecules! Read More
Congrats to Katie on receiving the Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity 2021 Research - Highest Honors award! View the award
April 2021:
Congrats to Bin on finishing his postdoctoral studies! Bin will be an assistant professor in the School of Chemistry at Nanchang University. Check out his new group website here.
Congrats to Garret and the group on Garret receiving the Provost Research Scholar award! Read More
Congrats to the group on winning several CSU College of Natural Sciences awards! Garret received the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, Cam received the summer 2021 Energy Institute Sponsored Internship, and Mariel was named a VPR Graduate Fellow! Read More
Congrats to Izzy (Damrauer group, CU Boulder), Dan, Steven (Damrauer group), and Blaine on their paper titled "Interrogation of O-ATRP Activation Conducted by Singlet and Triplet Excited States of Phenoxazine Photocatalysts" being published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A! Read More
March 2021:
Congrats to Cam on being awarded the Energy Institute Sponsored 2021 Summer Internship (Research)!
Congratulations to Garret on receiving the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award!
Congrats to Nick and Dan on their paper titled "Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of N-Alkyl Phenoxazines in Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being published in ACS Macromolecular Letters! Read More
February 2021:
Congrats to Kyle on his collaborative paper with the Srubar Group (CU Boulder) titled "Mechanics, optics, and thermodynamics of water transport in chemically modified transparent wood composites" being published in Composite Science and Technology! Read More
January 2021:
We are excited to welcome two first year graduate students to the group: Katherine and Katrina!
December 2020:
Congratulations to Mariel, Max, and Nick on receiving the 2020 ACS Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting Flash Presentation Award!
We would like to congratulate Nick on finishing his postdoctoral studies and wish him best of luck in his new position at Boulder Scientific.
November 2020:
The company Cypris Materials, founded by former Miyake Group PhD students Matt and Ryan, has been featured in Scientific American magazine for their structural color pigments based on polymeric photonic crystals. Read More
Congratulations to the whole group! Garret has been selected for the Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching and/or Mentoring Award for 2019-2020 by the CSU College of Natural Sciences. Read More
October 2020:
Congratulations to Blaine, Steven (Damrauer Group @ CU Boulder), and Justin on their paper titled "Solvent Effects and Side Reactions in Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization for Enabling the Controlled Polymerization of Acrylates Catalyzed by Diaryl Dihydrophenazines" being published in Macromolecules! Read More
Mariel has been featured in an article in the CSU College of Natural Sciences News highlighting her being awarded the Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship! Read More
The Biomimicry Institute in collaboration with Cypris Materials has published a very high quality educational video about photonic crystals! Cypris Materials was founded based on research conducted in our group and is currently run by Miyake group alumni Matt Ryan and Ryan Pearson. Watch the video here.
September 2020:
Congrats to Bret, Joe, Tara, and Matt on their collaborative paper with Dr. Brian Newell titled "Impact of backbone composition on homopolymer dynamics and brush block copolymer self-assembly" being published in Polymer Chemistry! Read More
Our group and New Iridium (company co-founded by Chern, former Miyake group postdoc) have been featured in a CSU College of Natural Science article highlighting our project to develop a more efficient synthesis of remdesivir, an antiviral drug for treating severe cases of COVID-19. Our approach involves utilizing Ni catalysis and light-driven methods to replace bottleneck steps in the published synthesis. Read More
Congratulations to Devin and Simone on their paper titled "Organocatalyzed Photoredox Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Functionalized Vinylcyclopropanes" being published in Macromolecules! Read More
August 2020:
Congratulations to Dianfeng (Devin) Chen on completion of his postdoctoral studies! It was great having Devin in the group and we wish him the best in his future work.
Congrats to Chern (former Miyake group post-doc) on being featured in the ACS Industry Matters Newsletter Innovation Zone!
July 2020:
Congrats to Justin, Devin, Max, Ryan, and Chern on their paper titled "Organocatalyzed Birch Reduction Driven by Visible Light" being published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read More
Congratulations to Dan on his Preview article titled "Making Block Copolymers with the Flip of a Switch" being published in Chem. Read More
June 2020:
Congrats to Dan and Blaine on their paper titled "Impacts of Performing Electrolysis During Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being published in Polymer Chemistry! Read More
May 2020:
Congratulations to Justin on finishing his postdoctoral studies! Justin will be working as a research scientist for Boulder Scientific. We will miss having Justin in the group and wish him best of luck!
Congratulations to Joe on finishing his undergraduate research in the group! Joe will be starting graduate school in the fall at the University of North Carolina. Good luck to Joe in his graduate work.
April 2020:
Congratulations to Bonnie for successfully defending her thesis! Bonnie will be working with Gregg Beckham and Eric Karp at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for her postdoctoral studies. We will miss having Bonnie in the group and wish her the best!
Congratulations to Bret for successfully defending his thesis! Bret will be working as a research chemist at the PPG coatings innovation center in Pittsburgh, PA where he will be working on coatings and additive manufacturing. We will miss having Bret in the group and wish him the best of luck!
March 2020:
Congratulations to Blaine on successfully defending her thesis! Blaine will be joining Prof. Bob Waymouth's group at Stanford University for her postdoctoral studies. We will miss having Blaine in the group and wish her the best in her future work!
Congratulations to Getnet on his paper titled "The effect of plasticizers on thermoplastic starch films developed from the indigenous Ethiopian tuber crop Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica) starch" being published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Read More
Congratulations to Dan on winning the CSU Vice President for Research’s 3 Minute Challenge, a competition in which graduate students from 7 of the 8 CSU colleges each had 3 minutes to present their research to a general audience. Watch Dan's presentation
February 2020:
Check out Justin, Devin, and Max's preprint version of their paper titled "Organocatalyzed Birch Reduction Driven by Visible Light" published in ChemRxiv. Read More
Congratulations to Bin and Zach on their paper titled "Scalable and Phosphine-Free Conversion of Alcohols to Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds through Blue-Light Promoted Iodination Reaction" being published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Read More
January 2020:
Congratulations to Devin and Cam on their paper titled "Bromine Radical Catalysis by Energy Transfer Photosensitization" being published in ACS Catalysis. Read More
Congratulations to Bonnie on her paper being featured on the cover of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Read More
Congratulations to Cam on his collaborative paper with Steven (Damrauer group at CU Boulder) titled "Designing High Triplet Yield Phenothiazine Donor-Acceptor Complexes for Photoredox Catalysis being published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Read More
We thank Prof. Hayato Ichikawa for working in our group as a visiting professor and wish him the best of luck in his future research!
We would like to welcome 3 new first year graduate students to the group!
December 2019:
Congratulations to Max on his collaborative paper with Prof. Pall Thordarson being featured on the JACS Most Read Articles page for the last 30 days.
Congratulations to Bin on his collaborative paper with the Paton group being featured on the cover of Chemistry: A European Journal. Read More
Matt and Ryan (Miyake group alumni) have been recognized by Forbes magazine in the "30 under 30 - Energy" list for 2020 for developing heat-reflective coatings technology! Matt and Ryan have founded the company Cypris Materials to commercialize these coatings which are based on chemistry developed in the group in the study of photonic crystals.
November 2019:
Congratulations to Bonnie on her paper titled "Dimethyl‐dihydroacridines as Photocatalysts in the Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Acrylate Monomers" being published in Angewandte Chemie. Read More
Congratulations to Max on his collaborative paper with Prof. Pall Thordarson of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) titled "Energy Transfer to Ni-amine Complexes in Dual Catalytic, Light-driven C–N Cross-Coupling Reactions" being published in JACS. Read More
October 2019:
Congratulations to Bin on his collaborative paper with the Paton group titled "Unconventional Reactivity of Ethynylbenziodoxolone (EBX) Reagents and Thiols: Scope and Mechanism" being published in Chemistry: A European Journal. Read More
September 2019:
Congratulations to Scott Folkman on finishing his postdoctoral research. Scott was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to travel to Spain and conduct further postdoctoral studies under Prof J. R. Galán-Mascarós at the Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ). We thank Scott for being a pleasure to work with in the group and wish him the best in his future work!
An article about Blaine receiving the DSM Science and Technology Award (see below) has been published on the CSU College of Natural Science News page. Read More
August 2019:
Congrats to Blaine on being awarded the DSM Science and Technology Award (Theme: Polymers for a Sustainable Future) for her presentation at ACS. Read More
Congratulations to Getnet and his colleagues at Addis Ababa University on their paper titled "Comparison of physicochemical properties of indigenous Ethiopian tuber crop (Coccinia abyssinica) starch with commercially available potato and wheat starches" being published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. We greatly enjoyed having Getnet as a visiting graduate student in the group. Best of luck to Getnet in his future work! Read more
Congratulations to Bret, Touzong, Tara, and Tim, on their paper titled "3D Printing Using Powder Melt Extrusion" being published in Additive Manufacturing. Read More
July 2019:
Congratulations to Dian-Feng (Devin), Bret, Blaine, and Chern on their paper titled "Controlling Polymer Composition in Organocatalyzed Photoredox Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Vinylcyclopropanes" being published in JACS. Read More
Congratulations to Kyle and Kristen (Srubar group at CU Boulder) on their paper titled "Optical Properties and Mechanical Modeling of Acetylated Transparent Wood Composite Laminates" being published in Materials. Read More
May 2019:
Congratulations to Dr. Chern-Hooi Lim on finishing his postdoctoral studies! Chern has started a company called New Iridium based on the group's photoredox catalysts.
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Pearson and Dr. Matthew Ryan for successfully defending their dissertations! Matt and Ryan have started a company together called Cypris Materials and have been accepted into the Cyclotron Road program!
Congratulations to Steven (Damrauer Group at CU Boulder), Izzy (Damrauer group at CU Boulder), and Blaine on their collaborative paper titled "Effects of Naphthyl Connectivity on the Photophysics of Compact Organic Charge-Transfer Photoredox Catalysts" being published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Read More
Congratulations to Garret on being named a 2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. Read More
April 2019:
Congratulations to Bret and Daniel on being awarded the Colorado State University Graduate School Travel Award to attend the Spring ACS National Meeting.
Congratulations to Bonnie and Blaine on receiving the PMSE and POLY Travel Awards, respectively, to attend the Spring ACS National Meeting. In addition, Blaine was nominated by the CSU Department of Chemistry to present at ACS in the 2019 Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research Symposium organized by the POLY division.
Congratulations to Blaine on being selected as a CSU VPR Graduate Student Fellow after participating in the "Three Minute Challenge Competition". Read More
January 2019:
Congratulations to Justin, Celia, and Chern on their paper titled "Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using Low ppm Catalyst Loading" being published in Macromolecules. Read More
We would like to welcome Cameron Chrisman and Mariel Price, new first year graduate students, to the group!
December 2018:
Congratulations to Chern on his collaborative paper with the Boyer Group titled "Guiding the Design of Organic Photocatalyst for PET-RAFT Polymerization: Halogenated Xanthene Dyes" being published in Macromolecules. Read More
Congratulations to Chern on his collaborative paper with the Robert Group titled "Visible-Light-Driven Conversion of CO2 to CH4 with an Organic Sensitizer and an Iron Porphyrin Catalyst" being published in JACS. Read More
November 2018:
Congratulations to Matt and Ryan on their book chapter titled "Organocatalyzed Controlled Radical Polymerizations" being published in the book "Organic Catalysis for Polymerisation". Read More
Congratulations to Blaine on her collaborative paper involving work from 7 polymer research groups titled "What happens in the dark? Assessing the temporal control of photo‐mediated controlled radical polymerizations" being published in the Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. Read More
September 2018:
Congratulations to Bin and Chern on their paper titled "Light driven intermolecular charge transfer induced reactivity of ethynylbenziodoxol(on)e (EBX) and phenols" being published in JACS. Read More
August 2018:
An article written about Bonnie receiving the 2018 Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship and describing the group's research has been published on the CSU College of Natural Science's website. Read More
Congratulations to Blaine on her paper titled "Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Catalyzed by Core Modified N-Aryl Phenoxazines Performed under Air" being published in ACS Macro Letters. Read More
July 2018:
Congratulations to Bonnie on being awarded the 2018 Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship Award. Read More.
Congratulations to Chern, Max, and Bin on their paper making #1 on the most read article list in JACS for the month of June 2018. Check out the article.
May 2018:
Congratulations to Daniel on being awarded the Professor Louis S. Hegedus Fellowship for 2018-2019.
Congratulations to Olivia on being awarded the Professor Albert & Joan Meyers Memorial Family Fellowship for 2018-2019.
Congratulations to Bonnie on her review article titled "Photoinduced controlled radical polymerizations performed in flow: methods, products, and opportunities" being published in Chemistry of Materials.Read More
Congratulations to Chern, Max, and Bin on their paper titled "C-N Cross-Coupling via Photoexcitation of Nickel-Amine Complexes" being published in JACS. Read More
Congratulations to Jordan on her collaborative paper with Prof. Cyrille Boyer on titled "N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazines as Photoredox Catalysts for PET-RAFT and Sequential PET-RAFT/O-ATRP" being published in ACS Macro Letters.Read More
April 2018:
An article in the CSU Magazine has recently been published describing the group's photonic crystals projects and their impacts through energy savings from heat-reflective window coatings and replacement of toxic pigments with structural color. Read More
Matt and Ryan won the Energy Institute Poster of the Year award at the CSU Demo Day event! View their poster.
Congratulations to Ryan on being selected to give a TEDx talk at TEDxCSU. Watch the talk on YouTube.
Congratulations to Steven (Damrauer group), Blaine, and Ryan on their collaborative paper with Prof. Niels Damrauer titled "Exploiting Charge-Transfer States for Maximizing Intersystem Crossing Yields in Organic Photoredox Catalysts" being published in JACS. Read More
Congratulations to Jordan for successfully defending her thesis!
March 2018:
Congratulations to Blaine, Ryan, and Chern on their collaborative paper with Steven M. Sartor and Niels H. Damrauer titled "Structure–Property Relationships for Tailoring Phenoxazines as Reducing Photoredox Catalysts" being published in JACS. Read More
An article about Garret M. Miyake being named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar has been published on the CSU College of Natural Sciences website. Read More
February 2018:
Congrats to Garret on being named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar! Read More
January 2018:
Congratulations to Rob on his paper titled "Arm-first synthesis of star polymers with polywedge arms using ring-opening metathesis polymerization and bifunctional crosslinkers" being published in Polymer Chemistry. Read more.
A writeup on the group's C-S cross-coupling paper was recently published in SYNFORM. Read more.
December 2017:
We would like to welcome 3 new first year graduate students to the group! Daniel Corbin, Olivia Manahan, and Max Kudisch.
One of the group's phenoxazine photoredox catalysts is now available for purchase on Sigma-Aldrich. Check it out here.
Congratulations to Synthesis of star polymers using organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization through a core-first approach" being published in Polymer Chemistry. Read more.
October 2017:
Garret, Chern, Ryan, Matt, Bonnie, Blaine, Kyle, Bin, and Bret discuss their research at the ACS Rocky Mountain Research Meeting in Loveland, CO.
From left to right: Garret, Logan, Bret, Nathan, Matt, Ryan, Chern, Kyle, Bonnie, and Blaine.
Garret, Prof. Zadrozny, and Prof. Bandar are featured in an article in the Collegian. Read more.
Bin and Chern's recently published paper in JACS is the most read article for the month! Check out the paper here.
August 2017:
Ryan, Matt, Kyle, and Kristin (a graduate student in the Srubar group at CU-Boulder) are awarded 1st place in the BASF Science Competition. Congratulations!
From left to right: Kyle Foster, Ryan Pearson, Matthew Ryan, Kristin Hess, and Keith Middleton (BASF) in Detroit, Michigan.
Many thanks to Doug Gin, Cyrille Boyer, William Dichtel, Tim Swager, and Eugene Chen for presenting their work at the Mark Young Scholar Award Symposium in honor of Garret Miyake. You can check out a recent article on the award here.
From left to right: Doug Gin, Eugene Chen, Garret Miyake, Robert Grubbs, Tim Swager, and Will Dichtel at the 254th ACS Meeting in Washington D.C.
The Miyake Group joins the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University and moves into new lab facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado. Read More.
July 2017:
Cyrille Boyer and Garret Miyake co-authored an editorial, "Polymers and Light," for an edition of Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Read More.
June 2017:
Congratulations to Ya, Ryan, Chern, Matt, and Haishen on their collaborative paper with Steven M. Sartor and Prof. Niels H. Damrauer titled "Strongly Reducing Visible Light Organic Photoredox Catalysts as Sustainable Alternatives to Precious Metals" being accepted for publication by Chemistry - A European Journal. Read more.
Bonnie was chosen as the winner of the Best Poster Prize sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry at the 3-D Printing Symposium in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Matth, Ryan, and Tracy on their paper titled "Impact of Light Intensity on Control in Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being accepted for publication by Macromolecules. Read More.
May 2017:
Congratulations to Haishen on his collaborative paper with Rebecca J. Rapf, Russell J. Perkins, Prof. Barry K. Carpenter, and Prof. Veronica Vaida on titled "Photochemical Synthesis of Oligomeric Amphiphiles from Alkyl Oxoacids in Aqueous Environments" being accepted for publication in JACS. Read more
April 2017:
Congratulations to Jordan, Blaine, and Chern on their paper titled "Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Perspectives on Catalyst Design and Performance" being accepted for publication in Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Read more
March 2017:
Rob Learsch, Kyle Foster and Bret Boyle are invited to attend the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy this June at the School of Mines in Golden, CO.
From left to right: Bret, Rob, Mary Kirchhoff, and Kyle.
Congratulations to Bonnie, Ryan, and Logan on their paper titled "Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using Continuous Flow" being published in Macromolecules. Read more
Congratulations to Blaine, Kyle and Steven Sartor (Damrauer group at CU) on being awarded the NSF GRFP!
Congratulations to Matt, Jordan, Chern, Haishen, Andrew, Nathan, and Sarah on their collaborative paper with Prof. Charles B. Musgrave titled "Solvent Effects on the Intramolecular Charge Transfer Character of N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Catalysts for Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being accepted for publication by the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry. Read more
Congratulations to Kaushik on both winning 1st place for Physics in the Corden Pharma Colorado Regional Science Fair and on being awarded the Naval Science Award from the Office of Naval Research!
February 2017:
Congratulations to Bret, Tracy, Ryan, and Blaine on their paper titled "Structural Color for Additive Manufacturing: 3D- Printed Photonic Crystals from Block Copolymers" being published in ACS Nano. Read more
Congrats to Garret on being named the 2017 Mark Young Scholar.
Congratulations to Garret for being awarded the 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Read more
January 2017:
Weili Si from Nanjing Tech University joins the group as a visiting professor.
December 2016:
Congratulations to Chern, Matt, Blaine, and Jordan on their collaborative paper with Steven Sartor, Prof. Neils Damrauer, and Prof. Charles Musgrave on their paper titled "Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Ion Pairing in N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts for Efficient Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" being accepted into JACS. Read More
November 2016:
Ryan was selected to present his work at the 13th Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium and will be presenting his work at the 2017 San Francisco ACS meeting.
Ryan being presented with his award after his talk "Organocatalyzed Photoredox Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Catalyst Development and Application"
August 2016:
Congratulations to Ryan, Chern, and Blaine on their collaborative paper with Prof. Charles Musgrave being accepted into JACS. "Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using N-Aryl Phenoxazines as Photoredox Catalysts" Read More
June 2016:
Blaine McCarthy receives a 1st place award for her oral presentation at the 12th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference titled “Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization for the Synthesis of Precise Polymer Architectures”.
Blaine (third from the left) being awarded for her oral presentation at the 12th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference
May 2016:
Congratulations to Blaine on being awarded the John S. Meek teaching award for her excellence as an organic chemistry teaching assistant!
April 2016:
Bin Liu joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher. Bin completed his PhD in Chemistry studying C-H bond activation reaction development under Prof. Bing-Feng Shi at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.
Bonnie and Tracy attended the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy this June at the School of Mines in Golden, CO.
Picture of all the attendees at the 2016 ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Engineering
Ya Du joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher. Ya received her PhD in Chemistry under Prof. Liangnian He at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, where she studied the catalysis of synthetic carbon dioxide chemistry.
Congrats to Robert Learsch on being awarded the NSF GRFP!
March 2016:
Congratulations to Jordan, Chern, Haishen, and Matt on their collaborative paper with Prof. Charles Musgrave getting published in Science! "Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Driven by Visible Light"
January 2016:
Chern Lim joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher. Chern received his PhD in Chemical Engineering under Prof. Charles Musgrave here at the University of Colorado - Boulder.
December 2015:
The Miyake Research Group, in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, and Materia Inc., is awarded a grant from the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to fund the development of energy efficient window coatings. Read More
November 2015:
Congratulations to Ryan on being awarded the 2016 ACS CIBA travel grant in green chemistry. He will be presenting at the 20th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference.
Bret Boyle, Kyle Foster, Rob Learsch, Blaine McCarthy, and Bonnie Ramsey joined the Miyake Research Group.
May 2015:
Ryan was invited to attend the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy this June at the School of Mines in Golden.
Picture of all the attendees at the 2015 ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Engineering
April 2015:
Congratulations to Jordan Theriot on being awarded the NSF GRFP!
November 2014:
Ryan Pearson, Matthew Ryan, Tracy French and Jordan Theriot joined the Miyake Research Group
From left to right: Garret Miyake, Ryan Pearson, Matt Ryan, Jordan Theriot, Tracy French, Dakota William, and Chris Kim