Wei You Research Lab

@WeiYouResearch

Twitter page of the You research group at UNC Chapel Hill. Chemistry Enabled (Soft) Materials Discovery: Applications Oriented Fundamental Research

Chapel Hill, NC

Joined March 2018

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Jul 16

This paper is an important follow-up to our most recent photoredox n doping (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). You will learn more fundamentals on the electron transfer process and how to improve that. Congrats to the DOPE MURI team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. We recently demonstrated that photoredox catalysts can enable n-type doping of conjugated polymers under light at room temperature. While experimental data confirm that the key electron transfer step...

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Jun 16

Finally. Our photoredox catalyzed n type doping came on line in @ScienceAdvances.!! Congratulations to the DOPE MURI team! There was a story behind and you can learn more from the below. chem.unc.edu/news/study-fin…

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Jun 3

After some waiting, we finally had our students office renovated with new desks and an old couch (sorry, bit it is a comfy one!) A better office would mean more and better pubs? We will see!

WeiYouResearch's tweet image. After some waiting, we finally had our students office renovated with new desks and an old couch (sorry, bit it is a comfy one!) A better office would mean more and better pubs? We will see!

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · May 16

Last weekend's hooding ceremony with Dr. @ShanahanJordan! It is always more fun to attend this hooding ceremony with the student's family.

WeiYouResearch's tweet image. Last weekend's hooding ceremony with Dr. @ShanahanJordan! It is always more fun to attend this hooding ceremony with the student's family.

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Apr 23

PhD No. 26 - Dr. Justin Neu! He defended his PhD thesis on April 21, 2025!

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Apr 23

PhD. No. 25 - Dr. Jordan Shanahan! He successfully defended his thesis on April 7, 2025!

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Apr 21

Thanks to @PolymChem, Sam published her fifth (first-authored) paper! And open access, too! If your company is at at RTP and looking for a summer intern, contact her! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. Here, we report the modelling of photo-mediated RAFT step-growth polymerization kinetics of maleimide and acrylate monomers with bifunctional RAFT agents bearing tertiary carboxyalkyl stabilized...

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Mar 28

This work started when Sung Yun was a postdoc with us. It was great that he did more work and now it is! Random Terpolymerization as a Design Strategy to Modulate Aggregation in NDI-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells | ACS Macro Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. Naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based conjugated polymers are prominent polymer acceptors in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). However, these polymers tend to exhibit strong self-aggregation, which can...

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Mar 27

Very much honored. It's a great day to be a Tar Heel! unc.edu/posts/2025/03/…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. The American Association for the Advancement of Science chose professors from the medical and pharmacy schools and College of Arts and Sciences.

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Jan 28

New year, new group activity! We went to ice skating! It was adventurous, particular for some of us that had not done such before. But we had fun!

WeiYouResearch's tweet image. New year, new group activity! We went to ice skating! It was adventurous, particular for some of us that had not done such before. But we had fun!

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Dec 22

Congratulations to Sam and Joji on this nice piece of work on kinetics of RAFT Step-Growth polymerization! Our contribution to the 15th anniversary of @PolymChem! Mechanism and modelling of thermally initiated RAFT step-growth polymerization pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. Here we report the modelling of thermally initiated RAFT step-growth polymerization kinetics of maleimide and acrylate monomers with bifunctional RAFT agents bearing tertiary carboxyalkyl-stabilized...

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Nov 25

Business as usual: Thanksgiving group gathering! This year featured a whole piece of smoked brisket on a brand new pellet smoker (after 12 hours of smoking!), in addition to the delicious turkey. Everyone had fun with their chosen activities!

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Wei You Research Lab@WeiYouResearch · Nov 7

Congrats to Anthony, Justin and Jiyeon！ Achieving Closed‐Loop Recycling of a Semi‐Conjugated Polymer Through the Incorporation of Ester Linkers Along the Backbone - Megret‐Bonilla - ChemSusChem - Wiley Online Library …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cs…

WeiYouResearch's tweet card. To achieve recyclable polymers for electronic applications, different depolymerizable ester units were incorporated into a parent conjugated polymer to afford a series of semi-conjugated polymers....

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