TheLessardLab

“Professionally” Playing with Polymers. Organic Synthesis, Controlled Polymerization, and Material Manufacturing at the University of Utah

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

Check out our most recent paper looking at radical flux to outcompete polymer flow in Frontal Polymerization!
https://t.co/rxAfMcUXuH

[Sumerlin Research Group @LowDispersity]

Our first publication of 2026 is out in @J_A_C_S now! #Graham and friends electrochemically depolymerized PMMA, with greater than 95% depolymerization observed! @ERG_Chem @AustinMEvans @ButlerPolymer
https://t.co/qjvvsRIGZN

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

Research paper #2 from our group just dropped as Open Access in Adv Materials. In this paper, we probe pendant length in frontal polymerization and the resulting material properties. @KA_Stew absolutely crushed this one, check it out! @JacobJLessard1

https://t.co/5MFrRBpIdU

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

@angew_chem @JacobJLessard1 @UtahChemistry Thanks for the post!

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

What is the one research question @JacobJLessard1 (@LessardLab, @UtahChemistry) would most like to answer? Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page. https://t.co/ZE0O7J4bWB • https://t.co/7ftO0xNyOX

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

Our first paper on controlling molecular weight in Frontal Polymerization is live as Hot Paper in Angew. Chem. Check is out! @KA_Stew @JacobJLessard1 @angew_chem

https://t.co/uSwnLcx2Gw

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

@lab_luo @Pittcon @waynestatechem @UtahChemistry @MinteerLab @chemsnu @mpicec_press @baker_grp Congrats!

[Sumerlin Research Group @LowDispersity]

Crispy new paper out now in @ChemicalScience! @cabelleades27 and pals used aqueous PISA as a tool to avoid high viscosities typically obtained during UHMW polymer synthesis! Also got some massive polymer microparticles in the process. @Brent_Sumerlin
https://t.co/bxzGAvhnIK

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

Lab is branded!

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

@LowDispersity Glad to see the Fors and Sumerlin’s memes again

[a. g. roberts chemistry @agr_chemistry]

It was our pleasure (@SwansonGroup_UT) to highlight the latest on lasso peptide folding and substrate–cyclase tolerance from the Shukla, Burk, and Mitchell teams at @ChemistryUIUC @ChBEIllinois @lassogen: https://t.co/IwJWRDrcoh

[a. g. roberts chemistry @agr_chemistry]

please check out our latest deaminative contraction method to prepare pyrido[n]helicenes @UtahChemistry https://t.co/0o2FJ6vtdB

[a. g. roberts chemistry @agr_chemistry]

check out the latest from @lab_luo @UtahChemistry

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

“Fit” the load frame in the instrument room

[Kevin Stewart @KA_Stew]

A straightforward method for achieving modular polyimine vitrimers from partially bioderived polystyrene copolymers/crosslinkers. A special thank you to a slew of talented undergraduate (and highschool!) mentees for all their hard work on this project. https://t.co/yCvI56T8PR

[Jacob J Lessard @JacobJLessard1]

New Group Website is up! Still a work in progress but feel free to check it out!
https://t.co/xSoMCr136q

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

@SobieKristin innovative group funding strategies

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

Found a $2 on the floor outside my lab. Thank you to the previous owner for your donation to the Lessard Lab

[TheLessardLab @LessardLab]

@agr_chemistry Thank you for your donation

[Jacob J Lessard @JacobJLessard1]

Super stoked to have been a small part of this super cool paper on FP patterning just published in @Nature. Huge congrats to the team and especially Justine for exceptional work!
@Mechanophore
@BeckmanIllinois Press Release https://t.co/fVWN3I3rE3
Paper: https://t.co/k3TBQcqHok