by nlewis | Oct 13, 2025 | Running
90 miles of technical gravel cycling across the giant sand-pit of the Owens Valley in Mammoth Tuff? Sublime. High altitude trail running in the Mammoth Trailfest 50K? Gut-turning, but beautiful. Podium finish at the Des Plaines River Trail Races 50 miler?...
by nlewis | Aug 26, 2025 | Running
Went over to Lincoln Nebraska to compete in the Full Double at Gravel Worlds — 50K run on Friday plus the 150 mile ride on Saturday. Dealing with some nagging injury on the run so I couldn’t push hard in the 50K, but could still do enough to start the ride...
by nlewis | Jul 16, 2025 | Publications
New paper out in Nature Communications about unusual cooperative effects in ion transport under confinement. Lead ions pave the way to enhance the diffusion of potassium by coordinating the functional groups inside the channels. Very happy to have been able to help...
by nlewis | May 21, 2025 | Running
7 hour race on the local trails out at Palos — second place by a hair! Together we set the course record at 10 laps of the 4.5 mile course, just squeezed the last lap in with less than 5 minutes to spare. Second place by something like a minute at the end.
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...