[6] He also founded Cylopure, a university spin-off that seeks to bring to market water filtration with cyclodextrin polymers.
He completed the Chicago Sky Line Swim in 2022 as well as successfully crossing the English Channel on June 25, 2024 in 12 hours, 8 minutes.
[10][11][12] He then moved to Los Angeles to perform joint postdoctoral research between 2005 and 2008 with Prof. Fraser Stoddart at UCLA, and Prof. James R. Heath at Caltech, where he studied rotaxanes.
[13][14] Dichtel began his independent career at Cornell University in 2008, as an assistant professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology.
[9] Dichtel moved to Northwestern University in 2016, where he holds the post of Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry.