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Aizenberg Lab @AizenbergLab

Joanna Aizenberg leads the biomineralization and biomimetics lab @hseas @harvardCCB. Student managed account.

Joined May 2022
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Check out @LimGarrick's Account where he chronicles his PhD work on using colloidal templating principles to design model catalytic platforms! @hseas @HarvardGSAS @HarvardCCB
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
16 Oct 2025
In this Account, I summarize my PhD research with @AizenbergLab @hseas on how colloidal templating can afford a modularly versatile and robustly stable catalytic platform to elucidate clear structure-property relationships pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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Check out our microfluidics-based strategy for shaping LCE microactuators into various 3D shapes in Adv. Mater., led by Milan, Hamed & Peiyuan (Tony)! @hseas @HarvardCCB advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Towards Differentiation in Untethered Microactuators: A Soft Fabrication Strategy

This article introduces a fabrication strategy for developing soft microactuators with orthogonally programmed shape, texture, and molecular anisotropy. Using microfluidics to generate liquid...

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Check out our new work in @NatureComms on nanoscale wetting effects when preparing bimetallic PdAu alloy catalysts, led by @LimGarrick @hseas @HarvardCCB
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
8 Jul 2025
In @NatureComms, we report how the sequence of preparing Pd8Au92/SiO2 catalysts tunes the size of Pd ensembles on the nanoparticle surface @HarvardCCB @hseas @ucmerced @NorthwesternU @stonybrooku @Materials_Intel @ChristianReece @UUBeta @AizenbergLab nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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At @ChemCatalysis, we worked with Sautet group @uclachem to study electron storage at the Au/anatase-TiO2 interface @hseas @HarvardCCB kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrac…
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We are excited to publish on our brain ventricle model @PNASNews that can help hydrocephalus research progress further by understanding fluid dynamics in context of shunt implants @hseas pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…

Fluid dynamics model of the cerebral ventricular system | PNAS

Hydrocephalus, a neurological condition characterized by an excessive buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, affects millions worldwide...

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Check out our latest work, in collaboration with the Montemore group, on tuning one-pot reaction selectivity in dilute PdAu alloy catalysts! @HarvardCCB @hseas
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
16 Jun 2025
We report in @CatalysisSciTec how the Pd ensemble size in dilute alloy PdAu catalysts tunes competitive adsorption kinetics to steer selectivity in one-pot hydrogenation and reduction amination reactions. @HarvardCCB @hseas pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Our recent PhD grad @LimGarrick will be at @NAM29NACS to give a broad summary of his PhD work @HarvardCCB @hseas
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
8 Jun 2025
At @NAM29NACS on Tuesday, I will share how our raspberry-colloid-templating method can be employed as a model catalytic platform by broadly surveying some of my PhD works from @AizenbergLab. Extended abstract here: lnkd.in/eiP779uV
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Our lab celebrated commencement with Joanna hooding our three PhD graduates: Haritosh, Milan, and @LimGarrick! @hseas @HarvardCCB @HarvardGSAS
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Check out what some of our undergrads @hseas @HarvardCCB are working on! We hope that more undergrads will work with us!
Jacopo Movilli@JacyTaci
15 May 2025
Proud mentor moment: The SpiroSniff team wins the Ingenuity Award and the Dean's Award!🏆 The vision: a portable, AI-driven, real-time, and non-invasive breathalyzer for detecting lung cancer—and more diseases. Check it out 👉innovationlabs.harvard.edu/v… #SEAS #Harvard #SpiroSniff
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Over the past week, we celebrated the PhD defenses of Milan, @LimGarrick, and Haritosh - congratulations!! Thank you to all who supported them through their PhDs! @hseas @HarvardCCB @wyssinstitute
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Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
3 Apr 2025
Excited to work with @cargnellogroup and @jaramillogroup on CO2 catalysis from this fall as a @StanfordEnergy postdoc fellow! Thanks to @AizenbergLab, Anatoly Frenkel, & Jessi van der Hoeven for support! @HarvardCCB @hseas @HarvardGSAS @astar_research energypostdoc.stanford.edu/n…

New energy postdocs seek interdisciplinary solutions collectively

Ten new postdoctoral scholars will expand and enrich the range of topics for potentially high-impact, scalable energy research in this unique postdoctoral program.

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Check out our newest research in collaboration with @ORNL on active and stable diesel oxidation catalysts at @ChemEurope
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
17 Mar 2025
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@AizenbergLab report in @ChemEurope how our raspberry-colloid-templating method can produce active and stable PtPd diesel oxidation catalysts under industry-defined testing. Research sponsored by @wyssinstitute, @doddtra, @ENERGY, @hseas, @HarvardCCB. chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…
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Check out our new perspective @AdvPortfolio Adv. Sci. on how natural biological olfaction (i.e., sniffing) can guide future designs of electronic noses! @hseas @wyssinstitute advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Design Principles From Natural Olfaction for Electronic Noses

Unlocking “universal smell” requires integrating key principles of natural olfactory systems: modulation of gas transport, utilization of non-selective sensing elements, chemical filters akin to the...

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Check out our new work at @PNASNews , led by @LimGarrick, on enhancing interfacial catalytic performance by partial nanoparticle embedding!
Kang Rui Garrick Lim@LimGarrick
9 Jan 2025
We report in @PNASNews how partial PdAu nanoparticle embedding into TiO2 support accentuates catalytic contributions from the Au/TiO2 interface. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… @AizenbergLab @hseas @HarvardCCB Research supported by @doescience, @doddtra
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Fancy some nanoscopic crystal art? Joanna collaborated with Wim's group at @_amolf to demonstrate how BaCO3 crystal growth can be directed, now published in @CGD_ACS @wyssinstitute @HarvardCCB @hseas pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

Directing Sequential Self-Organization with Self-Assembled Nanocrystals

Sequential self-organization can be used to design the hierarchy and complexity of materials beyond what is possible with single-step synthesis. However, such sequential approaches introduce additi...

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In @ScienceMagazine, we control polymer-mesogen interactions and polymerization stress to unlock newfound phase behaviors and achieve diverse ambidirectional deformations. This beautiful work was led by @hseas grad students @yuxing_yao & Milan Wilborn! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Programming liquid crystal elastomers for multistep ambidirectional deformability

Ambidirectionality, which is the ability of structural elements to move beyond a reference state in two opposite directions, is common in nature. However, conventional soft materials are typically...

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Congratulations to our @HarvardCCB grad student @LimGarrick for being selected for the @Materials_MRS graduate student awards! @hseas Check out his talk tomorrow Dec 4, 9 am ET, Hynes room 103
Materials Research Society (MRS)@Materials_MRS
2 Dec 2024
👏 Celebrate excellence in materials research at the #F24MRS Graduate Student Awards Special Talk Sessions! 🌟 Join us to support award finalists as they showcase their groundbreaking research! 🧪🎓 🗓️ Dec 3, 12:15–3:15 PM ET 📍 Marriott, 1st Floor #MRSCommunity
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Congratulations to our @hseas postdoc @hmd_almohammadi, who has been named as a rising star by @UChicago MRSEC! Listen to Hamed’s research on the virtual symposium on Dec 11-12! mrsec.uchicago.edu/about-us/…

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Wyss Institute@wyssinstitute
5 Nov 2024
Inspired by how lotus leaves naturally repel water, researchers in @AizenbergLab created a new, PFAS-free coating for fabrics that keeps water out without harming people or the planet. #Sustainability #PFAS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Robust PFAS‐Free Superhydrophobicity Exhibited in Hierarchically Nanostructured Coatings on Textiles

This work introduces a fluorine-free hierarchical nanocoating on textile substrates. A multistep synthetic approach includes fabric pretreatment to facilitate robust particle-to-substrate attachment...

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