Swager Group

It's swahhh-ger. Organic materials, polymer synthesis, chemical sensing, and dynamic colloids @ChemistryMIT @MIT_ISN. Our Bluesky is at

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🗣️👋: A little bit late to announce, but an interesting project from our lab was published recently by our former postdoc Georgios and collaborator, Prof. Alex Slocum from @MITMechE! A practical strategy to recover metals from coal fly ash - read more here https://t.co/N5uNH7oNrV

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📰🚨: Our work on dipyrrolyl acetylene synthons en route to N-rich polycyclic aromatics now has been published on @ChemCommun by our recently minted Ph.D. Daniel Martinez, his undergrad mentee Ryan Jang, and our former lab member Léo! Congrats to all! https://t.co/sqc1nke10M

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🎆🎊 A huge congrats to Dr. Krajovic, a former member of our group!

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Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Krajovic of MIT, winner of the 2026 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science! 🏆

Sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company, the PMSE award recognizes the best paper presented at its award symposium.

#PMSE #ACSFall2026

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🔦: In this month's @ChemistryMIT Graduate Student Spotlight, @lehoangminh2002 shares the most amazing adventure he'd take and what he'd like to discover there, the famous person he'd like to be stuck in an elevator with, and more! https://t.co/ocvXqWMjv7

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🍂🍁: A farewell party for our recent fabulous doctor @ColletteGordon9 yesterday 🥹 We hope that you cherished the great moments and friends you made during your journey here @MIT, and we look forward to seeing your success in the future! May our paths cross again very soon ☘️☘️

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🍾🎉🥳🪩: Congratulations to our newly minted PhD @ColletteGordon9, who just defended her thesis earlier today! We appreciate your strong leadership and great contribution to the lab for the past four years, and we cannot wait to see what you'll accomplish after your tenure here!

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Congrats @ColletteGordon9 and @michocheje for publishing their PFAS sensing work using polyaniline homopolymers and copolymers (PANIs)! This work enable the further development of selective and low-cost PFAS acid vapor sensors. For more details, read here https://t.co/WixMVRJ7Ud!

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🌥️: The summer is over! Let us bring the joy of research to you this academic year, start with our 5th year graduate student Thomas Pioch in the CSS tomorrow from 10 AM in room 4-370! Thomas's presentation will also serve as the kickoff of the CSS series this fall. See you there!

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Right now at the annual Organic Retreat - go Jennifer, our beloved third-year Ph.D. candidate!

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🦞’s conquer the volleyball world! We defeated the Elkin lab’s team earlier this afternoon - great job to the whole team! To a month of sport events following the kick-off World Cup ⚽️ match today!

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Last week, we had the annual group dinner @ChartHouseRest at the Long Wharf in Seaport to celebrate a successful year for the team. Photos to follow, but we have a new group photo to share with you all first!

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Kudos to Jesús and Benedikt for their excellence in mentorship and contribution to the Swager lab! What an awesome time to be a part of the lobster team (or Mantis shrimps?)! 🦞🦐🍤

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Congratulations to the extraordinary winners of the Spring 2026 Mentorship Spotlight Award: Rad Chrzanowski, Dr. Jesus Castro Esteban, Wenlai Han, Ira Martyniak, Rachel Motz, Dr. Benedikt Schreib, and Madelyn Scott.

https://t.co/9gbI6KitYv

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We are back with a great news from PolyJoule, an MIT spinout headquartered in Billerica, MA, found by Prof. Ian Hunter and our very own boss! Basically, a battery that you can put a blow torch to, and it won't burn! Check the details below 👇

https://t.co/hNjCmop5JG

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Check out our new paper in @NanoLetters on ultrasensitive hydrogen detection with n-type conjugated polymers! Excellent work by postdoc @Bergy_Dunitz and former undergrad Kae Hoang!

https://t.co/4WYmrUpnSx

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🍻🥩: Yesterday, several of the 🦞’s went out for a dinner to send our best wishes to Hayeon Kim, an exchange Ph.D. student from @KAIST_CBE. We wish her all the best in her upcoming journey, and hopefully she had many great memories with the lab members!

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@JACS_Au @AFResearchLab Here is the link to the article if you are interested to know what our scientists came up with: https://t.co/JHbjBqnMvS

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📰: Our recent publication in @JACS_Au introduces a new method to functionalize PFA coil reactors with different photocatalysts through fluorophilic interactions, which can help configure flow reactors for reactions on scale. Congrats to Benedikt, Jesús, and @AFResearchLab team!

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🆕 labmate: A late introduction, but we warmly welcome Dr. Yuki Hata who's from Nagoya, 🇯🇵. He got his B.S. from Yokohama National University and his Master's from @UTokyo_News_en before working for Nippon Steel and getting his Ph.D. from @NagoyaUniv concurrently. Stay tuned!

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🆕 lab member: We welcome Dr. Davide Zanetti, who recently joined our lab as a FWF postdoc fellow! He obtained his BSc and then MSc from @unito/@icmabCSIC and then PhD from @univienna. He will explore redox-active organic systems and magneto-optical materials soon. Stay tuned!

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Our Faraday paper with @SwagerGroup is now out in all its glory!
https://t.co/LPRvMAe9EN
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