Appearing today in Chemical Science, Yan Sun (Yan Sun) and coworkers in The Robb Group illustrate that a polarizing dialkylamine substituent enables photochromic and mechanochromic behavior from a typically inert linear naphthopyran. Congrats to all! 🎉 doi.org/10.1039/D3SC03…

Delighted to share the latest paper from The Robb Group in collaboration with Mikhail Shapiro 🇺🇦’s group online now in PNASNews. Mechanophore activation using #biocompatible focused ultrasound! Huge congrats to Molly McFadden and Yuxing Yao and coworkers! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Hey, check out the front page of the @caltech website 😊 You can read the news story by Emily Velasco 🍥 here: caltech.edu/about/news/dru…

Drug-delivery system uses focused ultrasound to release cancer drugs precisely when and where they’re needed – click on the image to read more. ow.ly/fghJ50PTRaY

Welcome to our new postdoc Dr. Dr. Jessica Beard !!!

The Robb group is ready!

We have our old friend back in lab 🧪 🎄

We are excited to welcome our first year grad students Liam, Nathan and Analiese!!!

Who is your Sockret Santa? Well the Robb group today received some really cute socks and creative deliveries! 🎅

Congratulations to Tian Zeng (May) and coauthors on the latest The Robb Group publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! A new nonscissile mechanophore design enables polymers that can release hundreds of small molecule payloads with force. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3…

One last paper from The Robb Group to finish off the year… Congratulations to Debbie on her paper online now in Chemical Science! We exploit a unique fragmentation pathway using a self-immolative linker to design a mechanophore for dual payload release. doi.org/10.1039/D3SC06…

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Congrats to Dr.Tian Zeng (May) for successfully defending her thesis today!!! We send our best wishes to her postdoc research! Congrats May!!!🎉🎊🎊

First group outing of 2024! Hotpot🥘!

So happy I was able to return to Caltech last week and see my thesis advisor Maxwell Robb give a fantastic talk on all the beautiful work he and the Robb group have done these past few years.

Last week, Prof.Maxwell Robb gave us an amazing talk on polymer mechanochemistry. We are very excited to tell people about our cool chemistry! Also thanks to Dr.Molly McFadden for giving a wonderful intro!

Happy to be at #ACSSpring2024 to celebrate Maxwell Robb Piero Canepa and Jarad Mason's awards!!! Congratulations!!!! 🎉🎉

Well, I guess it’s Twitter Official…Yesterday I was promoted to Professor with tenure Caltech in Caltech Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. I am beyond grateful to my amazing students, colleagues, mentors, family, and friends that helped me get here. I feel truly lucky. Thank you!

Congrats to Max!!!

Today we report in J. Am. Chem. Soc. a novel and highly modular platform for mechanically triggered chemiluminescence (bright light emission) from polymers. Congrats to Peng Liu｜刘朋, Yu-Ling (Debbie), and coworkers! Collab with Shabat Group. Caltech Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Caltech pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…