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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · 20h

Congratulations to our friend & former @uclacb.bsky.social colleague Prof. Omar Yaghi on winning the @nobelprize.bsky.social in chemistry for his groundbreaking #nano work on MOFs

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UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry @uclacb.bsky.social · Aug 27

UCLA spinout Entropic Biosciences, co-founded by
@pswnano.bsky.social & alum Amir Nasajpour (PhD ’23), awarded $200K from BARDA/BTI VANGUARD to develop a high-throughput 3D skin model. www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/ucla-sp...

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Aug 18

@uclacb.bsky.social PhD student AJ Addae will be speaking this morning at an @acs.org meeting Presidential event #cosmetics #chemistry #nano @ucla.edu Room 140B

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UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry @uclacb.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congratulations to Prof. Paul S. Weiss (@pswnano.bsky.social)‬, who has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences – Materials Science Division! www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/paul-s-...

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Jul 17

Coming up shortly, a discussion of and roundtable of\n the impact of the National #Nanotechnology Initiative as part of the quadrennial review #nano #NNI bit.ly/NNI25w

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’ll be speaking at @nyutandon.bsky.social engineering on Tuesday & @nyu.edu chemistry on Wednesday #nano

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Jun 8

I will be giving a plenary talk Monday morning at bit.ly/TCW25 #TechConnect in Austin - see you there!

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are hosting Prof. Jungwon Park @seoulnatluniv.bsky.social today @uclacb.bsky.social - sharing his pioneering work in liquid-phase electron microscopy #nano

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · May 23

We have Prof. Khalid Salaita @emoryuniversity.bsky.social speaking in biophysics today @ucla.edu on the mechanobiology of immune cells #nano

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · May 14

Chris Chang @christhechang.bsky.social @princeton.edu is giving our student-invited chemistry seminar @uclacb.bsky.social @ucla.edu

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · May 8

Here is an exciting new paper on 3D printing in vivo with ultrasound with @pswnano.bsky.social group alumna Prof. Elham Davoodi, now @utah.edu, from her work at @caltech.edu with @weigaolab.bsky.social bit.ly/InVsound3D @science.org

Imaging-guided deep tissue in vivo sound printing

Three-dimensional printing offers promise for patient-specific implants and therapies but is often limited by the need for invasive surgical procedures. To address this, we developed an imaging-guided...

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · May 5

Prof. Andrea Liu @upenn.edu returns to @uclacb.bsky.social to give our physical chemistry seminar

Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Apr 30

We are celebrating Prof. Naomi Halas @riceuniversity.bsky.social with a symposium @upenn.edu in honor her Franklin Institute Medal in chemistry #nano

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Apr 27

I am looking forward to giving the chemistry seminar tomorrow (Monday) afternoon @tulaneu.bsky.social in New Orleans and visiting @tulanemedicine.bsky.social & Tony Hu on Tuesday! #nano

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Apr 24

AJ, Jennifer, & Michelle presenting our group poster at the UCLA Microbiome Center Symposium @cnsiatucla.bsky.social

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Apr 7

I will be speaking this afternoon at the MRS @materials-mrs.bsky.social meeting in Seattle on our collaborations in Africa and the developing world #nano #materials #albinism #SCD

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 27

I am looking forward to giving the Mitsch Lectures at & visiting Hamline University today (Thursday) & tomorrow - bit.ly/Mitsch25

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 26

I will give my final talk of this @acs.org meeting today (Wednesday) on cage-molecule self-assembly & precise building blocks in Pacific 24 of the San Diego Marriot #nano
Don't miss AJ Addae's talk on a novel ZnO tetrapod-based sunscreen on Thursday @ 8:50 AM in Marina G, also @ San Diego Marriot

Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 25

I will be speaking this afternoon at the @acs.org meeting in San Diego in a symposium celebrating Tom Mallouk, chair of the @upenn.bsky.social chemistry department & my former colleague @pennstatechemistry.bsky.social #nano - SDCC 28A, 4:20 PM

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 23

See you at the spring @acs.org meeting in San Diego, starting early this morning! Here are our @uclacb.bsky.social, @uclasamueli.bsky.social, @cnsiatucla.bsky.social group presentations on nanoscience, chemistry, physics, materials, chirality, sustainability, & skincare

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 23

Next up in the early Sunday morning @acs.org Global Virtual Symposium, Dr. Tianhan Liu @ PRL on chirality & spin polarization #nano

Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 23

I am not sure whose idea it was to have (online) talks starting at 5:30 AM on a Sunday at the @acs.org meeting, but I would like a word. My first talk of the meeting will be at 7 AM - I will send out a group schedule soon. #chemistry #nano

Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 22

I will be giving a YSLL online talk to 1500 high school students this morning before heading to San Diego for the @acs.org meeting - nano science outreach

Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 21

Today, we celebrate the lives of my predecessor @uclacb.bsky.social Prof Sir Fraser Stoddart & our noted alumnus Glenn Seaborg. Fraser was to be awarded the UCLA Chemistry Department's Seaborg Medal. Our symposium features Nobel Laureate @nobelprize.bsky.social Ben Feringa (shared prize w Fraser).

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Paul S. Weiss @pswnano.bsky.social · Mar 19

It was an honor and a lot of fun to give the annual student-invited talk in chemistry at the University of Houston @uh.edu What a terrific and engaged group of PhD students across fields!