//This defines the title text for the sidebar
var sidebarTitle="News";
//And the max. number of stories on the news sidebar
var maxStories=6
//Store all news stories as a 2-D array, where the first dimension is the story # (0, 1, 2, etc...), and the second dimension is the part of the story (0=date, 1=story text)
//Add new stories to the top! (the script reads backwards)
var sidebarStories=new Array()
sidebarStories[57] = new Array("May 2019", "More great press for our work with recyclable plastics. C&EN, the Berkeley Lab News Center, and Chemistry World have all done write-ups the exciting application of vitrimers with diketoenamine bonds in closed-loop recycling. Congrats to the team on their continued success!");
sidebarStories[56] = new Array("April 2019", "The Weather Channel has picked up on the recyclable plastic excitement. Way to go team!");
sidebarStories[55] = new Array("April 2019", "Our research on recyclable plastics, spearheaded by Pete Christensen, was featured in Nature and Science. Congrats!");
sidebarStories[54] = new Array("April 2018", "Congrats to former Helms Group SULI student Erica Tsai for becoming a fellow in the 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!");
sidebarStories[53] = new Array("March 2018", "Our research on reconfigurable 3D-printed liquids, spearheaded by Joe Forth, was featured in General Electric's The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week, ScienceDaily, and the Berkeley Lab News Center. Congrats to the team for this well-earned recognition!");
sidebarStories[52] = new Array("March 2018", "Our work developing Tröger's base thermally rearranged polymer membranes was featured on the back cover of Angewandte Chemie. Congrats to the whole team for this success, and to Steve for the accepted artwork!");
sidebarStories[51] = new Array("March 2018", "Dr. Williams goes to Washington, DC! Teresa has accepted a congressional public policy fellowship from the American Chemical Society for 2018-2019, as part of a larger program through AAAS.");
sidebarStories[50] = new Array("May 2017", "Congrats to our new graduates! Teresa Williams - PhD in Applied Science and Technology Angelique Scheuermann - BS in Chemistry");
sidebarStories[49] = new Array("April, 2017", "Teresa presented her recently published work on quantitative descriptions of order-disorder in colloidal nanocrystal frameworks at the Spring ACS Meeting in San Francisco.");
sidebarStories[48] = new Array("March 16, 2017", "Congrats to undergraduate researcher Angelique Scheuermann for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!");
sidebarStories[47] = new Array("December 16, 2016", "Sean Doris graduated with his PhD in Physical Chemistry. Congrats Dr. Doris!");
sidebarStories[46] = new Array("April 15, 2016", "Congrats to all the Helms Group undergrads who will be heading to graduate school next fall:Erica Tsai - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ChemistryElise Goldfine - Northwestern University, Materials Science and EngineeringMuna Saber - University of California, Santa Barbara, Chemical EngineeringZiyi Zhang - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Materials Science and EngineeringWe wish you all the best in your future endeavors!");
sidebarStories[45] = new Array("March 28-April 1, 2016", "Pete Frischmann presented JCESR Research at the MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix.");
sidebarStories[44] = new Array("March 29, 2016", "Teresa Williams’s talk at the Spring 2016 ACS conference was recognized as the \"Best Presentation\" of her session. Congrats!");
sidebarStories[43] = new Array("March 13-17, 2016", "Steve, Teresa, Sean, and Brett gave talks at the Spring 2016 meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego.");
sidebarStories[42] = new Array("March 5, 2016", "Angelique Scheuermann presented at the 2016 UC LEADS Symposium at UC Davis and won the award for \"Best Poster Presentation in the Physical Sciences.\"");
sidebarStories[41] = new Array("March 1, 2016", "Pete Frischmann (Sepion Technologies) was selected to join the 2nd Cohort of Cyclotron Road innovators developing Li-S batteries enabled by Helms' group discoveries.");
sidebarStories[40] = new Array("December 18, 2015", "Changyi Li graduated with his PhD in Chemical Engineering. Congratulations Dr. Li!");
sidebarStories[39] = new Array("July 24, 2015", "Helms group alumnus Ethan Rosenberg was recognized as UCLA's 2015 Outstanding Materials Science BS student. Congrats, Ethan!");
sidebarStories[38] = new Array("August 16, 2015", "Teresa Williams gave a talk at the Fall 2015 ACS conference in Boston.");
sidebarStories[37] = new Array("July 23, 2015", "A collaborative effort between the Helms and Milliron groups was recently featured by the UT Austin news center. ");
sidebarStories[36] = new Array("June 4, 2015", "Helms group alumna Leanne Friedrich won the Gotaas award at Northwestern University. Congratulations Leanne!");
sidebarStories[35] = new Array("April 17, 2015", "Congratulations to Teresa Williams for passing her prelim exam!");
sidebarStories[34] = new Array("April 6–10, 2015", "Steve, Changyi, Pete, Laura, and Brett gave talks at the Spring 2015 MRS conference in San Francisco.");
sidebarStories[33] = new Array("March 19, 2015", "Congratulations to Steve Meckler for passing his qualifying exam!");
sidebarStories[32] = new Array("March 2015", "Congratulations to Angelique for receiving the Chevron scholarship and being accepted into the UC LEADS program!");
sidebarStories[31] = new Array("May 18, 2014", "Congratulations to James for graduating from UC Berkeley's Mechanical Engineering program! We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.");
sidebarStories[30] = new Array("May 18, 2014", "Congratulations to Teresa for earning her M.S. in Applied Science and Technology!");
sidebarStories[29] = new Array("April 21-25, 2014", "Brett, Andy, Teresa, and Sean presented talks at the Spring 2014 meeting of the Materials Research Society on topics ranging from energy storage to interlayer dielectrics for microprocessors.");
sidebarStories[28] = new Array("January 22, 2014", "Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes: The LBL news center reports on a recent collaboration between Brett and Frank Ogletree to covalently functionalize carbon nanotubes for increased thermal conductivity.");
sidebarStories[27] = new Array("January 14, 2014", "Brett gives a seminar on mesoscale science at the University of Washington's Department of Chemistry");
sidebarStories[26] = new Array("January 5-10, 2014", "Changyi, Laura, Pete and Brett brave the polar vortex and attend the JCESR All-Hands meeting in Bolingbrook, IL.");
sidebarStories[25] = new Array ("October 29, 2013", "Sean Doris presented his poster, \"Electron Transfer Across Electrode Interfaces in Lithium-Air Batteries\", at the 224th meeting of the Electrochemical Society.");
sidebarStories[24] = new Array("October 16, 2013", "Congratulations to Sean Doris for passing his qualifying exam!");
sidebarStories[23] = new Array("August 6, 2013", "Listen in (starting at the 1:05 mark) on Teresa's appearance in the monthly radio show segment, \"What\'s up doc?\"");
sidebarStories[22] = new Array("May 4, 2013", "20 years and counting! Teresa presented a poster at Applied Science and Technology's 20th anniversary celebration at UCB.");
sidebarStories[21] = new Array("April 17, 2013", "Brett delivers an invited seminar at Harvard's Wyss Institute on Bio-Inspired Design of Electrodes and Membranes for Energy Storage.");
sidebarStories[20] = new Array("April 7-11, 2013", "April and Brett present their work on nanocrystal architectures and interfaces at the Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleans.");
sidebarStories[19] = new Array("April 3, 2013", "Congratulations to Sean Doris for receiving the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship!");
sidebarStories[18] = new Array("April 1-5, 2013", "Helms group takes the MRS meeting by storm! Brett, Teresa, Evie, and April give talks at the Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco.");
sidebarStories[17] = new Array("March 3, 2013", "The Roman Spring of Dr. Helms - Brett gives a talk on cyclic peptide polymer membranes at the Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials Conference in Sorrento, Italy.");
sidebarStories[16] = new Array("February 22, 2013", "Amazingly beautiful ski weekend in Tahoe with the Organic and Inorganic Facilities of the Molecular Foundry.");
sidebarStories[15] = new Array("February 4-5, 2013", " Brett attended the JCESR Energy Storage Hub kick-off meeting held at Argonne National Laboratory. The Helms group is matrixed to the Non-Aqueous Redox Flow battery effort in the hub.");
sidebarStories[14] = new Array("February 1, 2013", "Brett delivers NSE seminar at UC Berkeley on forging mesoscale materials from polymers and nanocrystals.");
sidebarStories[13]= new Array("December 3, 2012", "Brett visits Tulane University to close out their Chemistry Department's seminar series for 2012 with a talk on mesoscale materials.");
sidebarStories[12]= new Array("November 11, 2012", "Brett takes naked nanocrystals to the beach at the 2012 Zing Polymer Conference in Xcaret, Mexico.");
sidebarStories[11]= new Array("November 5, 2012", "Dr. Helms goes to Washington: delivers an invited seminar entitled \“Polymer-Directed Assembly of Mesoscale Materials\” at the University of Washington, Seattle.");
sidebarStories[10]= new Array("October 18, 2012","Sean Doris presented his poster, \"Surface Structural Analysis of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Using Hetero-Metallic Ligands \", at the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative Symposium.");
sidebarStories[9]= new Array("October 13-14, 2012","Bradley Williams was sponsored by Owens Corning to attend the \"Out to Innovate\" conference hosted by Ohio State University.");
sidebarStories[8]= new Array("September 2012","Brett was promoted to career staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry. Congratulations Brett!");
sidebarStories[7]= new Array("September 2012","Congratulations to Changyi Li for passing his qualifying exams and advancing to PhD candidacy!");
sidebarStories[6]= new Array("June 2012","Teresa Pick received a graduate student travel award from the European Physical Society in support of her trip to present her work at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICNT) in Paris, France.");
sidebarStories[5]= new Array("June 2012","Teresa Pick gave an invited talk at the \'French-Korean Symposium on Functional Organic and Polymeric Materials\' at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France), hosted by our collaborator, Professor Andre-Jean Attias.");
sidebarStories[4]= new Array("May 3, 2012","Georgeta Masson was invited to present the results from a joint research effort at the Carbon Cycle 2.0 Seminar Series.");
sidebarStories[3]= new Array("December 8, 2011","Nanocrystals Go Bare: The LBL news center reports on new ligand stripping chemistries developed in the Helms lab.");
sidebarStories[2]= new Array("January 11, 2011","\"Polymer Membranes with Molecular-sized Channels That Assemble Themselves\": A recent LBL news center feature highlights a Helms group collaboration with UC Berkeley's Prof. Ting Xu.");
sidebarStories[1]= new Array("October 20, 2010","\"Berkeley Lab Scientists Open Electrical Link to Living Cells\": A recent LBL news center feature highlights a Helms group collaboration with the Ajo-Franklin group.");
sidebarStories[0]= new Array("June 28, 2010","Helms group member Aaron Albers was featured in an LBL news feature after being honored with the E.O. Lawrence Fellowship.");
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