Morgan Skala

PhD Candidate @UWChemistry @golder_team and CEI Graduate Fellow @UW_CEI | Former NREL Polymer Science | FSU Alum | she/her

[Morgan Skala @SkalaMorgan]

I’m proud to say my first author paper was just accepted to Chem Sci! If you’re interested in how we chemically modify polystyrene waste under ball mill grinding conditions while maintaining high molar mass check it out! 🔨🥽

[Matt Golder @AurMatthew]

Just in time for the latest paper in @ChemicalScience from @SkalaMorgan! In this work, we combine our interests in mechanochemistry and sustainability to demonstrate the viability of ball milling for PPM of plastic waste w/o deleterious chain scission https://t.co/IeP07OcVOb

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

Out now in Macromolecules @MacroJrnls_ACS: a PNW collab with Matt's PhD advisor Ramesh Jasti @nanohoops at UofO! First reported synthesis of high MW [n]CPP conjugated polymers and copolymers with solution processibility. Great work all!
https://t.co/oxwj5ychfB

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

In collab with @mcgonigalgroup, our latest work is out now in ACS Central Sci! We present a novel fluorobullvalene-centered polymer mechanophore, directly probing the changes in isomer distribution in response to force. Congrats all! https://t.co/TBsMeVWSLw

[The Jasti Laboratory @nanohoops]

📢Big congrats to Harrison for leading this beautiful work and to our collaborators - @golder_team and @Kertesz_group for their contributions!!
🔎This paper highlights the first reported synthesis of high MW [n]CPP conjugated polymers and copolymers with solution processibility.

[Ramesh Jasti @profjasti]

Now published, led by Harrison Reid @nanohoops High Molar Mass [n]Cycloparaphenylene Conjugated Polymers and Copolymers with Improved Electronic Delocalization | Macromolecules https://t.co/4GcGERimoH

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

Check out this article in the @UWArtSci April newsletter, covering the work we do to mitigate plastic waste and enhance their usable lifetime!
https://t.co/SGCQwnl1WC

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

We wish her well when she returns to her hometown later this year for a postdoc with Chris Cooper at WashU St. Louis!

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

The heartiest of congratulations to our resident greyhound enthusiast and Steely Dan expert DR. Morgan E. Skala!! She successfully defended her thesis last week, titled "Ball Mill Grinding Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Chemical Transformations of Post-Consumer Polymer Waste"🥳

[NaOH Bartfield, PhD 🧪 @NaOHBartfield]

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[Morgan Skala @SkalaMorgan]

I’m honored to have received the 2026 Hyp J. Dauben Best Dissertation in Organic Chemistry alongside Brian’s win in Materials Chemistry. Next up: my dissertation defense in April!

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

Another set of congratulations is in order for Dr. Brian Sun and our 5th year Morgan Skala for receiving (respectively) the 2026 Dalton Best Dissertation in Materials Chemistry Award and Dauben Best Dissertation in Organic Chemistry Award from @UWChemistry!! 🥳😤

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

We can't wait to learn about the wonderful new chemistry he'll be doing as a postdoc with Dr. Jarad Mason @HarvardCCB!! We wish him the utmost luck on his move to the East Coast; he will be sorely missed by all. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

The grandest of congratulations to now DR. BRIAN SUN! 🥳🥳 We are DELIGHTED to have been a part of his incredible scientific journey. Until his departure next week, he remains the only student on Team Golder to have known ALL of its members—truly the end of an era...

[The Jasti Laboratory @nanohoops]

📢Huge congratulations to our polymer chemist, Dr. Reid, on this beautiful work, powered by some fantastic collaborations! 😍😇💫

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

Check out our latest paper in Polymer Chemistry, co-authored by Jason and Mercie! We further our mechanoredox methodology to make triblock copolymers from immiscible monomers, and ultra-high molecular weight polyacrylates in the ball mill. Exciting stuff! https://t.co/m5yJzK3Ec5

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

A big congratulations to our second years, Adelle Koenig and Jason Kaff, for both passing their second-year exams!!! We look forward to seeing the wonderful science they'll continue doing in our lab 🥳🥳

[TeamGolder @golder_team]

Speaking of wonderful science, congratulations again Adelle for bringing the Golder Lab into the engineering space with a new publication in Composites Part B, in collaboration with the Vashisth Lab @ME_at_UW!!
https://t.co/8dN4pQoLpn

[NaOH Bartfield, PhD 🧪 @NaOHBartfield]

I have successfully defended my PhD on the total synthesis of Securiflustra and Chartella alkaloids. Thank you to everyone for your support the past ~4 years!

[Impactive @Impactive_EU]

#Mechanochemistry is in fashion. Only twenty years after recognising the term “mechanochemistry”, IUPAC selected it as one of the most exciting developments of the current chemical landscape. Publications have grown exponentially in this field since then.

#MechanoMondays

[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