by nlewis | Feb 19, 2025 | Publications
New paper out in Nature Communications! We used a combination of methods including thin film conductivity, MD and 2D IR to study a dynamics in a new class of anion exchange polymer, connecting structural and dynamical properties from the ultrafast and microscopic all...
by nlewis | Oct 17, 2024 | Running
First hundred miler in the bank! Smashed it at Hennepin. 8th overall, 3rd in age group, just under 18 hours. It was super hot all afternoon, so it was a matter of troubleshooting all day – managing heat, fluids and nutrition. I succeeded in not burning myself to...
by nlewis | Jul 2, 2024 | Conferences, Running
A lot of activity this June with two 100K races and a great CMDS conference in York. Kettle Moraine 100K at the beginning of the month was fantastic, won my age group and 10th overall! I was planning on taking it easier in the first half then pushing harder on the way...
by nlewis | Jun 5, 2024 | Publications
A new paper many years in the making! We lay out a detailed practical discussion of how we implement broadband supercontinuum IR sources as a probe in ultrafast IR experiments, including many of the things we have learned working with it over the years. We hope this...
by nlewis | May 24, 2024 | Publications
Check out our paper on studying the transport of lanthanide ions in functionalized MoS2 channels. In this work, we point to new possibilities for designing membranes for tricky lanthanide separations.