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
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 Matias! 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.
Summer, 2024
Congratulations to Erica and the team on a mechanochem paper in Angew Chem! Distant locations where to pull the mechanophore still affect its force sensitivity. Welcome to new postdocs Ai He and Yong Min and visiting student Kazu!
Feb, 2024
The group warmly welcomes Vittal and Ruilin to officially join the group! Congratulations to Ashley and Francesca on their doubleheader in Macro Lett! New understanding on how CANAL polymer structures affect gas transport properties and how Ru Fischer carbene affects the reactivity of cyclic alkenes with moderate strain. |
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