Past Funded Researchers
Julia Ortony
- Finmeccanica Career Development Professor (formerly, has since left MIT)
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Ortony completed her Ph.D. at U.C. Santa Barbara in 2011, where she developed instrumentation based on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy for measuring the motion of water on molecular length scales in soft matter. Following her Ph.D., Prof. Ortony worked on dynamics characterization of supramolecular materials in Sam Stupp’s group at Northwestern. Prof. Ortony joined the faculty of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in November 2015. Her group focuses on design, synthesis, and characterization of largely non-biological small molecules that spontaneously self-assemble in water, and on their applications.
J-WAFS-funded projects
Publications
- Effects of molecular flexibility and head group repulsion on aramid amphiphile self-assembly
- Dynamics in supramolecular nanomaterials
- Emerging investigator series: aramid amphiphile nanoribbons for the remediation of lead from contaminated water
- Morphological transitions of a photoswitchable aramid amphiphile nanostructure
- Self-assembly of aramid amphiphiles into ultra-stable nanoribbons and aligned nanoribbon threads
News
- Student from J-WAFS PI Julia Ortony's lab invents nanomaterial for water treatment
- World Water Day 2022 Research Highlight: Filtering arsenic from drinking water in South Asia
- PI Julia Ortony's nanostructures featured in Physics Today
- PI Julia Ortony inspired by Kevlar to create super-strong nanostructures
- The water purification potential of J-WAFS PI Julia Ortony’s super-strong nanostructures
- Ortony Lab's nanostructure work highlighted in German scientific magazine
- Concocting nanomaterials for clean water and alternative energy