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We are enthusiastic about designing, creating, and playing with exotic small molecules and large polymers with unusual properties and behaviors.
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NEWS
Sept, 2025
Welcome to new members, Dr. Nachuan Jiang and Linda Yiu (and much belated welcome to Dr. Moritz Hansen and Dr. Mike Baird)!
Spring, 2025
Paper highlight Vittal's ACS Macro Lett. reporting surprising mechanoactivation behavior observed from well controlled polymechanophore block copolymers. Xuyi and Yongmin's Adv. Mater. reporting chemically recycling of pDCPD thermosets with invariant curing characteristics and thermomechancial properties over 5 generations. Nov, 2024
Two new collaborative publications on fluorinated polymers: Reported in JACS, Fluorination on polyladderane affects the force sensitivity, product distribution, and increases the fraction of products undergoing the dynamic pathway. Heavy fluorines act as bowling balls and enhance dynamic effect. Congratulations Maggie! Reported in ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., Fluorinated polymer enhances mechanical and combustion performance of B composites. Congratulations Ashley! Sept, 2024 Congratulations to Ke and the team on reporting depolymerizable "polycyclohexene" in JACS! Ultrahigh MW, semicrystallinity, scalable synthesis from commodity monomers, and catalyst-triggered room temperature depolymerization, this polymer has it all. |
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