“Professionally” Playing with Polymers. Organic Synthesis, Controlled Polymerization, and Material Manufacturing at the University of Utah
Joined March 2024
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Apr 30
Check out our most recent paper looking at radical flux to outcompete polymer flow in Frontal Polymerization!
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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
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23 Dec 2025
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
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26 Sep 2025
What is the one research question @JacobJLessard1 (@LessardLab, @UtahChemistry) would most like to answer? Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page. x.com/16467437/status/197048… • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
23 Sep 2025
Molecular Weight Control in Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Jacob J. Lessard and co-workers) #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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13 Sep 2025
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
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27 Feb 2025
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
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3 Dec 2024
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: nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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27 Nov 2024
please check out our latest deaminative contraction method to prepare pyrido[n]helicenes @UtahChemistry chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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24 Nov 2024
check out the latest from @lab_luo @UtahChemistry
This work is now published in @J_A_C_S! Great collaboration with @Merck @Fred_A_Perras @iowastatechem @waynestatechem! Thanks to @NSF for funding! #quantumdot for photocatalytic D/T labeling @UtahChemistry check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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25 Oct 2024
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. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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24 Oct 2024
New Group Website is up! Still a work in progress but feel free to check it out!
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1 Oct 2024
Found a $2 on the floor outside my lab. Thank you to the previous owner for your donation to the Lessard Lab
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18 Sep 2024
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!
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Paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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30 Jul 2024
Some really cool predictive FROMP modeling. Was a fun project to be apart of! Check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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22 Jul 2024
It was great to be a part of this work! Check it out!
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