Interface-promoted Assembly and Disassembly Processes for Rapid Manufacture and Transport of Complex Hybrid Nanomaterials
The intimate combination of inorganic nanoparticles and organic polymers within nanoscopic packages of controlled sizes and shapes includes many challenges with the processes for their production and many opportunities for unique materials properties. Organic polymers are typically considered as plastics and they have physical and mechanical properties that allow them to serve common roles, such as elastic materials (clothing, tents, parachutes, etc.), containment vessels (cups, plastic bags, etc.), and high technology needs, such as optical materials (eye glasses, OLED devices, etc.), engineering materials (airplane parts, football helmets, etc.), among many others. Inorganic nanoparticles are typically rigid and often possess characteristics of magnetism, optical signaling or catalytic reactivity. This project will develop computational methods to guide approaches to rapidly discover and manufacture hybrid inorganic-organic nanostructured objects (HIONs) possessing complexity of compositions, structures, properties and functions.
Publications
Elucidation of Substantial Differences in Ring-Opening Polymerization Outcomes from Subtle Variation of Glucose Carbonate-Based Monomer Substitution Patterns and Substituent Types
Y. Shen, M. Leng, Y. Yang, S. K. Boopathi, G. Sun, and K. L. Wooley
7/6/2023
Complexities of Regioselective Ring-Opening vs Transcarbonylation-Driven Structural Metamorphosis during Organocatalytic Polymerizations of Five-Membered Cyclic Carbonate Glucose Monomers
Y. Shen, X. Yang, Y. Song, D. K. Tran, H. Wang, J. Wilson, M. Dong, M. Vazquez, G. Sun, and K. L. Wooley
1/14/2022
Machine Learning Enhanced Computational Reverse Engineering Analysis for Scattering Experiments (CREASE) to Determine Structures in Amphiphilic Polymer Solutions
M. G. Wessels, and A. Jayaraman
7/23/2021
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Research Highlights
Theory-guided Targeted Delivery of Nanoparticles in Advective Environmental Porous Media
William P. Johnson and Karen L. Wooley
11/14/2019
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