Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚

Assistant Professor | School of Materials Science and Engineering | NTU Singapore | Nerding over symmetry & breaking it.

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

AIChE is not over yet!! Mark your 📆

We have put together an exciting lineup of speakers on Thursday, tomorrow morning at 8 am at Hilton Aqua Salon D.

@BhamlaLab will be kicking it off with some cool science about entangled blobs of worms.

@ChEnected @aiche_mesd

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

@kvagrawal @ZhaoGroupNUS Thanks Varoon for coming to NTU. Great to discuss science and everything around it :)

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

@MkhoyanL Thank you Andre ! Your support has been invaluable and I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you.

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

@MkhoyanL Very sorry to hear this Andre :(

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

Kumar ATOMIC lab will set it's foundations in Singapore this June and my lab will be recruiting excellent candidates at all levels of their studies. My group has 3 PhD openings and 1 postdoc opening. Please see the attached posting and reach out to me.
https://t.co/A9vT8thjhj

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Nanyang Technological University @NTUsg School of Materials Science and Engineering as a tenure-track assistant professor this June. The big move across the pond will begin soon. (1/n)

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

To say that I reached here all by myself would underscore the contribution of my mentors, letter writers (Andre Mkhoyan, Michael Tsapatsis, Nicholas Kotov, Sharon Glotzer, Rohit Bhargava),friends (you know who you are)and most importantly my parents (3/n)

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

@kvagrawal Congratulations Varoon ! This is pretty exciting news.

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

I am excited to present a webinar hosted by JASCO next Tuesday (16th May) about our recent work on 3D metamaterials capable of tunable polarization rotation.
@kotov_group @profglotz @GlobalJasco

Good vibrations promised 📳

Registration link -
https://t.co/nGYSZ1qgDp

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

We published the experimental realization of these gold tetrahelices and their sensing properties in this @angew_chem article done in collaboration with Shunai Che's group @sjtu1896 https://t.co/ofBg5a2eai

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

My paper on understanding the role of coupled electromagnetic fields between small chiral molecules and large gold helices in Chiral Sensing 🍥 is out! Grateful for the contributions of my undergrad Alex Simon and postdoc mentor @kotov_group https://t.co/Be2GqnW2zZ

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

This work originated in the summer of 2020 during the height of the pandemic, when we were forced to stick to computer screens. Alex now a graduate student in Notestein lab @nu_chbe took on this beautiful journey with me of creating and simulating gold tetrahelices.

[Chemistry of Materials @ChemMater]

'Nature and photography inspire me to create materials with an eye for atomic scale arrangement' - Prashant Kumar
Read the full interview as part of our '35 Voices' Series
👉 https://t.co/Mon4EbRmQc @prashantksk

[Chemistry of Materials @ChemMater]

New from our 35 Voices interview series! Read on to discover new perspectives from our community focusing on creativity, collaboration, and persistence. 👩🏿‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 👉 https://t.co/ufT4yqhLL1 @VidaJamali @AngshumanNag4 @GroupHarding @LotschGroup @prashantksk

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

@clh731 @cenmag @UiisesPerez @RRF_Lab This is a great example of a PI standing with the student. Prof. Renee Frontiera sets a great example.

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by @SaraSkrabalak for this unique initiative by @ChemMater . I share my perspective on navigating academia as an immigrant in the US and as a post-doc during pandemic.

@UMichChE @kotov_group @UMengineering

https://t.co/akvbzTUWaR

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@NatureSynthesis @ali_stoddart @Nature @profglotz @kotov_group @UMichChE Thank you Ali for highlighting our work. 🙂

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

And @Ella_Maru Alex stuck it out with me through the tight deadline to create these beautiful renders of bowties.

Thank you to all involved :)

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

Happy and relieved to see that my work on fabricating 3D chiral structures with a 'twist', as a post-doc with @kotov_group @UMichChE is finally out for everyone to enjoy. Lucky that the paper made it to the cover.

Article is at
https://t.co/GLAiSjimEa

[nature @Nature]

This week in Nature: Twist factor – Nanosheets form photonically active bow ties with tunable geometry. Browse the full issue here: https://t.co/sedHC46wot

[Prashant Kumar | प्रशांत कुमार 🐚 @prashantksk]

Even I couldn't have explained it as simply as @kmca43 did

https://t.co/MgR4E3OlGV