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My Soft Matter paper featured on the cover of Issue 46

Posted on November 11, 2014 by dmckinno@gmail.com

My third and final cover of graduate school has hit the press. Mike Brasino, of Jen Cha’s group, did a great job with the design and I love how this turned out.

McKinnon Soft Matter cover

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