The Swager Group
@swagergroup.bsky.social
It's swahhh-ger. Organic materials, polymer synthesis, chemical sensing & dynamic colloids @mitchemistry.bsky.social & @isn.mit.edu. Our web is https://swagergroup-archive.mit.edu. Earlier posts can be viewed via our X account at https://x.com/SwagerGroup.
🆕 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 Univ. of Turin/@icmabcsic.bsky.social and then PhD from Univ. of Vienna. He'll explore redox-active organic systems and magneto-optical materials soon. Stay tuned!
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🆕 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 Univ. of Turin/@icmabcsic.bsky.social and then PhD from Univ. of Vienna. He'll explore redox-active organic systems and magneto-optical materials soon. Stay tuned!
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Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
🍎🍏🍂: Last weekend, our lab members went to Honey Pot Hill Orchards, just ~45 minutes of driving away from the lab, to enjoy some apple cider donuts and freshly picked apples! Presented below are beautiful pictures from Ming's camera, and stay tuned for more beautiful photos when October still lasts!
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🍎🍏🍂: Last weekend, our lab members went to Honey Pot Hill Orchards, just ~45 minutes of driving away from the lab, to enjoy some apple cider donuts and freshly picked apples! Presented below are beautiful pictures from Ming's camera, and stay tuned for more beautiful photos when October still lasts!
Happy Tuesday: 🖼️'s from the award ceremony! Collette, a NOBCChE collaborative student representative, and Jennifer represented MIT at the Graduate School Fair at the NOBCChE conference. FYI, Tim also serves as an MIT faculty representative. Also, a nice reunion with former MSRP alumnus Arinze!
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Happy Tuesday: 🖼️'s from the award ceremony! Collette, a NOBCChE collaborative student representative, and Jennifer represented MIT at the Graduate School Fair at the NOBCChE conference. FYI, Tim also serves as an MIT faculty representative. Also, a nice reunion with former MSRP alumnus Arinze!
🫡: A belated post, but we are happy to celebrate our group members presenting at the NOBCChE conference last month! Collette and Jennifer represented our group while reuniting with Kayla (our former group graduate!), Andy, and Eric. Collette also earned First Place in the NSF Innovation Tank Talk!
October 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🫡: A belated post, but we are happy to celebrate our group members presenting at the NOBCChE conference last month! Collette and Jennifer represented our group while reuniting with Kayla (our former group graduate!), Andy, and Eric. Collette also earned First Place in the NSF Innovation Tank Talk!
From explosives to ketones, all the way to PFAS, ethylene, and finally hydrogen sensing, the story of chemiresistors and biosensors in our lab still continues until today. Reunion with our alumni Prof. Richard Liu & @lennonluo.bsky.social @harvard.edu and a group photo in front of a group picture!
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
From explosives to ketones, all the way to PFAS, ethylene, and finally hydrogen sensing, the story of chemiresistors and biosensors in our lab still continues until today. Reunion with our alumni Prof. Richard Liu & @lennonluo.bsky.social @harvard.edu and a group photo in front of a group picture!
📣: Tim gave the Max Tishler Prize Lecture today @harvard.edu and got the medallion from our alumnus (and now a faculty member in the Department’s next door to us!) Richard. In a breezy day in Cambridge, we got together with our colleagues to listen to Tim’s exciting story 🎉!
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📣: Tim gave the Max Tishler Prize Lecture today @harvard.edu and got the medallion from our alumnus (and now a faculty member in the Department’s next door to us!) Richard. In a breezy day in Cambridge, we got together with our colleagues to listen to Tim’s exciting story 🎉!
📜🚨: New paper coming to your area! As promised, in this work, Daniel showcases an efficient synthesis of FOPCOT, which can be used as organic Faraday rotators. Thank you to our collaborators at SUNY Buffalo, Molly, Harry, and Peter from MIT XRD! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
September 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📜🚨: New paper coming to your area! As promised, in this work, Daniel showcases an efficient synthesis of FOPCOT, which can be used as organic Faraday rotators. Thank you to our collaborators at SUNY Buffalo, Molly, Harry, and Peter from MIT XRD! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
📰: Our rising 5th year stars Molly and Daniel along with our postdoc Maryam presented their research yesterday at the @mitchemistry.bsky.social - Merck symposium! While you probably have seen Molly's and Maryam's work elsewhere on the net before, stay tuned for Daniel's very soon!
September 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📰: Our rising 5th year stars Molly and Daniel along with our postdoc Maryam presented their research yesterday at the @mitchemistry.bsky.social - Merck symposium! While you probably have seen Molly's and Maryam's work elsewhere on the net before, stay tuned for Daniel's very soon!
🏐🦞: Repost from MIT Grad Rat Instagram! The lobsters are vibing with the last bit of Cambridge's summer weather before the fall foliage. Can you tell us what and how are our lobsters doing? If not, pay attention to the first pictures! Following the heated match is the Muddy's...
September 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🏐🦞: Repost from MIT Grad Rat Instagram! The lobsters are vibing with the last bit of Cambridge's summer weather before the fall foliage. Can you tell us what and how are our lobsters doing? If not, pay attention to the first pictures! Following the heated match is the Muddy's...
✍️: We gathered together last night to send our best wishes to our recent graduate Haosheng for his future journey! Following the fulfilling hotpot dinner, we had a friendly 🎱 match along with great 🍻 and conversations! So far, a successful lab social before the fall semester starts next week!
August 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
✍️: We gathered together last night to send our best wishes to our recent graduate Haosheng for his future journey! Following the fulfilling hotpot dinner, we had a friendly 🎱 match along with great 🍻 and conversations! So far, a successful lab social before the fall semester starts next week!
✌️: Say hi to our newest lab member, Benjamin, who's from Heidelberg in Germany! He did his bachelor thesis in the Levkin group at the KIT and is currently pursuing his master's at Heidelberg University. He interned at the startup Panosome before joining our lab. A warm welcome!
August 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
✌️: Say hi to our newest lab member, Benjamin, who's from Heidelberg in Germany! He did his bachelor thesis in the Levkin group at the KIT and is currently pursuing his master's at Heidelberg University. He interned at the startup Panosome before joining our lab. A warm welcome!
🧨🍾 to Tim for winning the Arthur C. Cope Award and giving such a great lecture today! Featured in the photo below are Tim and the lobster crew: our postdocs Chi-Hsien and Harry, our former Ph.D. graduate @lennonluo.bsky.social, and our soon-to-be doctor Molly! Please enjoy the vibe while it lasts!!
August 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🧨🍾 to Tim for winning the Arthur C. Cope Award and giving such a great lecture today! Featured in the photo below are Tim and the lobster crew: our postdocs Chi-Hsien and Harry, our former Ph.D. graduate @lennonluo.bsky.social, and our soon-to-be doctor Molly! Please enjoy the vibe while it lasts!!
Our great leader Tim is currently giving his Arthur C. Cope Award Lecture at ACS Fall 2025 under the topic of "materialverse" where opportunities never cease to amaze anyone! Looks like we have a great attendance there, so you certainly do not want to miss this great talk!!!
August 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Our great leader Tim is currently giving his Arthur C. Cope Award Lecture at ACS Fall 2025 under the topic of "materialverse" where opportunities never cease to amaze anyone! Looks like we have a great attendance there, so you certainly do not want to miss this great talk!!!
🧑💻: Molly's podium presentation is currently happening in the ACS Fall 2025, and let us brag about how great she is in any role - as a person, speaker, or chemist! You definitely do not want to miss the talk! And less than two hours is Tim's talk - stay tuned for more fun with the lobsters 😉
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🧑💻: Molly's podium presentation is currently happening in the ACS Fall 2025, and let us brag about how great she is in any role - as a person, speaker, or chemist! You definitely do not want to miss the talk! And less than two hours is Tim's talk - stay tuned for more fun with the lobsters 😉
As our kick-off member today in the ACS Fall 2025 meeting, our gorgeous postdoc Chi-Hsien also presented her work in the group about detecting NDMA in aqueous media using a novel colorimetric assay. Watch out as this work will be featured in a journal near you very soon (catch it if you can 🤭)!!!
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As our kick-off member today in the ACS Fall 2025 meeting, our gorgeous postdoc Chi-Hsien also presented her work in the group about detecting NDMA in aqueous media using a novel colorimetric assay. Watch out as this work will be featured in a journal near you very soon (catch it if you can 🤭)!!!
Someone is not doing a good job in highlighting our lab citizens' awards, so here is the belated congratulations to our rockstar postdoc Harry for being selected as one of 20 PMSE Future Faculty class members! He also gave a talk earlier today at the PMSE symposium at the ACS Fall 2025 meeting!
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Someone is not doing a good job in highlighting our lab citizens' awards, so here is the belated congratulations to our rockstar postdoc Harry for being selected as one of 20 PMSE Future Faculty class members! He also gave a talk earlier today at the PMSE symposium at the ACS Fall 2025 meeting!
A little bit of an early sneak peek, but Tim is giving ANOTHER talk on the topic of organic electronics - applications in sensing also in Hall D, Room 4, but on Wednesday! The podium presentation will start at 10:00 AM, so grab a coffee before the talk starts and enjoy it nicely!
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A little bit of an early sneak peek, but Tim is giving ANOTHER talk on the topic of organic electronics - applications in sensing also in Hall D, Room 4, but on Wednesday! The podium presentation will start at 10:00 AM, so grab a coffee before the talk starts and enjoy it nicely!
📒: It is a BUSY day for the🦞's in the ACS Fall 2025 tomorrow! At 9:55 AM in room 207B, our postdoc Chi-Hsien is kicking us off with her podium presentation under the title "Development of a novel colorimetric assay for N-nitrosodimethylamine detection in aqueous solution." See you there for the fun!
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
📒: It is a BUSY day for the🦞's in the ACS Fall 2025 tomorrow! At 9:55 AM in room 207B, our postdoc Chi-Hsien is kicking us off with her podium presentation under the title "Development of a novel colorimetric assay for N-nitrosodimethylamine detection in aqueous solution." See you there for the fun!
🆕: A long-awaited introduction from last week! We welcome Alberto, our new exchange graduate student from Italy. He graduated from the University of Parma in Chem. Sci. & Tech. and currently pursues his Master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry there, working in the Dalcanale group. Enjoy the stay!
August 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🆕: A long-awaited introduction from last week! We welcome Alberto, our new exchange graduate student from Italy. He graduated from the University of Parma in Chem. Sci. & Tech. and currently pursues his Master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry there, working in the Dalcanale group. Enjoy the stay!
📎: A belated introduction, but here it is for a good Friday! Robert is a rising junior who joined our lab this winter, working with Ashton since then. He was born and raised in St Lucie, FL and is currently pursuing his major in DMSE with a minor in Chemistry. Welcome (a little bit delayed though)!
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📎: A belated introduction, but here it is for a good Friday! Robert is a rising junior who joined our lab this winter, working with Ashton since then. He was born and raised in St Lucie, FL and is currently pursuing his major in DMSE with a minor in Chemistry. Welcome (a little bit delayed though)!
🏖️📷: With the fall commencing soon, we gathered earlier today for a farewell and welcome party! Our tradition of giving farewell speeches continues with the superstar visiting undergrads while we welcome Nathan and our visiting grad students into the lab. Tech Square is amazing as always!
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🏖️📷: With the fall commencing soon, we gathered earlier today for a farewell and welcome party! Our tradition of giving farewell speeches continues with the superstar visiting undergrads while we welcome Nathan and our visiting grad students into the lab. Tech Square is amazing as always!
Our postdoc Maryam Alsufyani also got highlighted a few days ago as a recipient of the prestigious MIT IBK Research Award for her proposal "Detection of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Water using Turn-ON Fluorescent Dyes." We are so proud of her! ibk.mit.edu/news/dr-mary...
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our postdoc Maryam Alsufyani also got highlighted a few days ago as a recipient of the prestigious MIT IBK Research Award for her proposal "Detection of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Water using Turn-ON Fluorescent Dyes." We are so proud of her! ibk.mit.edu/news/dr-mary...
Next, we welcome our new visiting graduate student, Andrea Minaya, from @ethz.ch! She earned her undergrad degree in MechE, developing NO2 sensors based on carbon nanotubes. Prior to joining our lab, she spent an exchange year @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and interned at Porsche & 8inks. Welcome!
August 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Next, we welcome our new visiting graduate student, Andrea Minaya, from @ethz.ch! She earned her undergrad degree in MechE, developing NO2 sensors based on carbon nanotubes. Prior to joining our lab, she spent an exchange year @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and interned at Porsche & 8inks. Welcome!
It's August 8, a palindrome day (8/8 = 100%!!!), a great time to welcome some new lab members! First, we welcome back our postdoc Nathan after a six-month tenure working with our former alumni, Prof. Grace Han. Nathan will conduct some great work in a cool project - stay tuned!
August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It's August 8, a palindrome day (8/8 = 100%!!!), a great time to welcome some new lab members! First, we welcome back our postdoc Nathan after a six-month tenure working with our former alumni, Prof. Grace Han. Nathan will conduct some great work in a cool project - stay tuned!