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I’m excited to welcome five new people to the group this semester. New people bring new ideas, new areas of expertise, and new energy that propels our research into new directions! I’m looking forward to seeing where…

The scope of our DOE BES-funded team has expanded from proton-conducting polymer to include hydroxide-conducting polymers. I’m happy to announce our first paper in this area, entitled “Investigating Morphology and Diffusion in Simulations of Precise…

Last week, Aubry Hymel, a 3rd year PhD student in the Winey group, visited our collaborators Prof. Stefan Mecking and Viola Burlein at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Aubry is studying the self-assembly of precisely…

We are delighted to share our latest article in Macromolecules titled “Polyhalohydrins: Investigating Vicinal Functionalities by Ring-Opening of Epoxides on Polyolefins”, the result of a great collaboration with Bryan Coughlin group at University of Massachusetts…

Congratulations to Winey group postdoc Hoda Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani! She received the Early Career Researcher Best Poster Award from the ACS PMSE Division at the American Chemical Society Fall 2025 meeting in Washington, DC. Hoda presented…

Yesterday, two Winey group alumni stopped by Penn for a visit. Jinseok Park received his Ph.D. in 2022 and now works as a postdoc at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Jinseok gave a…

We hosted our collaborators from the University of Konstanz (Germany) including Prof. Stefan Mecking and three of his graduate students (Katharina Scherer, Katrin Wurst, Viola Burlein). The students gave excellent talks in Penn’s new Vagelos Laboratory…

The Winey lab is excited to welcome six undergraduate students to our group this summer. Left to right: Allen Jiang, CBE class of 2026, is being mentored by Maggie Brown, working on characterizing ion-containing multiblock…

I’ve returned from a productive and enjoyable trip to Michigan, where I had the opportunity to give four lectures as the 2025 Turner J. Alfrey Visiting Professor. Hoda Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani, a postdoctoral researcher in my…

I’m honored to be the 2025 the Turner J. Alfrey Visiting Professor and busy preparing for a set of lectures on Tuesday, June 3 in Midland, MI. The schedule for the one-day symposium is below. In addition to my four…

Justin Kennemur and I were interviewed for an article in C&ENews about the challenges of replacing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The story highlights the various applications that use PFAS and the many strategies for…

We are just back from a great APS March meeting! Congratulations to Margaret Brown for winning 2nd place in the DPOLY poster session! Here she is receiving the award from Prof. Rafael Verduzco of Rice…

This week, we hosted some of our Port5 project grad student collaborators for an in-person meeting. Zana Nadia Singleton from Justin Kennemur‘s group at Florida State and S. Amirali Mousavi Shahri from Michael Hickner‘s group…