Former members
The following list does not include former undergraduate students.
Doctorals
Name | Duration | Project |
Anton B. Kornberg | 09/16 – 11/20 | Flexible conductive composites with co-continuous morphology |
Yuan Gao | 09/15 – 11/19 | Polyolefin-based reversible shape memory polymers |
Lei Lei | 09/13 – 08/17 | Gas-switchable polymers |
Darko Ljubić | 09/13 – 08/17 | Semiconductive polymers for light responsive organic electronics |
Meng Li | 09/13 – 08/17 | Stress sensitive polymeric materials |
He (Hermes) Zhu | 09/11 – 09/16 | Polymer functionalization and processing of MOF materials |
Erlita Mastan | 09/11 – 11/15 | Modeling of ATRP |
Ali M Rabea | 09/11 – 10/15 | ATRP at high conversion |
Chad S Smithson | 09/11 – 09/15 | Organic field-effect transistor (OFET) |
Ping Liu | 09/05 – 12/11 | Semi-conductive polymer materials |
Sara Alibeik | 09/06 – 09/11 | Polymer biomaterials |
Hongyan (Helen) Gu | 09/06 – 06/11 | Surfadditives for plastics |
Zhilin (Mary) Jin | 01/06 – 01/10 | Polyurethane surface modification |
Xiang (Shane) Gao | 05/05 – 09/09 | Living radical polymer grafting fundamentals |
Renxu (Jerry) Chen | 05/04 – 06/09 | ATRP for microelectronic dielectric materials |
Santiago Faucher | 09/02 – 04/07 | Recyclability of supported ATRP systems |
Hualong Pan | 09/03 – 04/07 | Semiconductive polymers for plastic transistors |
Wei Feng | 09/02 – 04/07 | ATRP grafting for non–biofouling materials |
Hormoz Eslami | 10/02 – 08/06 | Emulsion ATRP |
Aileen Wang | 09/01 – 06/05 | Diffusion-controlled ATRP |
Fahad AlObaidi | 09/99 – 08/04 | Polyethylene by Ni/diimine & metallocene |
Zhibin Ye | 09/99 – 06/04 | Novel polyolefins by single-site catalysts |
Ed Kolodka | 09/97 – 12/02 | LCB metallocene polyolefins |
Youqing Shen | 09/99 – 12/01 | ATRP and its continuous processes |
Sam Zeng | 02/98 – 12/01 | ATRP comb-branched polyelectrolytes |
Leming Gu | 09/96 – 10/01 | polyvinylformamide and polyvinylamine |
Hua Guo | 09/91 – 12/95 | Emulsion polymerization with crosslinking |
Masters
Name | Duration | Project |
Dan Gariepy | 09/13 – 08/15 | Coagulatable and redispersable polymer latexes |
Yiran (Yvanne) Ren | 09/11 – 09/14 | Surface modification for protein resistance |
Rummana Syeda | 09/10 – 12/13 | Vegetable oil based emulsifiers |
Lily So | 05/11 – 12/12 | Synthesis of polyolefin waxes |
Nels Grauman | 09/09 – 12/12 | Wax emulsification |
Mark Rattle | 09/09 – 07/12 | Maleation of waxes |
Hongyu Lu | 09/10 – 07/12 | MOF/polymer membrane |
Cam Derry | 09/09 – 12/11 | Microelectronic device printing |
Meng Li | 09/09 – 11/11 | Switchable polymers |
Tom Kowpak | 05/07 – 12/09 | Microcytometry and microfluid |
Jason Doggart | 05/07 – 08/09 | Metal nanoparticle printing |
Mohammad Hajabed | 09/06 – 05/09 | Hyperbranched polyethylene wax |
Mark Machado | 09/06 – 06/08 | Engineering ATRP |
Rachel Gong | 09/05 – 08/07 | Polymer grafting from steel surface |
Jen Mahon | 05/04 – 04/06 | GPC analysis of polyelectrolytes |
Phil Whitney | 09/03 – 04/05 | Controlled EPR domains in PP matrix |
Ni Zhao | 09/02 – 08/04 | Study on interfaces of plastic transistors |
Xiaoping Jin | 09/01 – 11/03 | DNA/polyelectrolyte complex for gene delivery |
Gregor Matzke | 09/99 – 08/02 | Polymethylacrylamide macromonomer |
Shin-Joon Park | 09/98 – 04/00 | Ethylene/propylene metallocene copolymerization |
Bill Huang | 09/97 – 04/99 | Metallocene syndio polystyrene |
Dajing Yan | 09/96 – 04/98 | Rheology of metallocene LCB polyethylene |
Julie McLachlan | 01/96 – 10/97 | Graft polyelectrolytes for flocculation |
Weifeng Zhang | 09/95 – 08/97 | Curing of unsaturated polyester resins |
Weixia Zhou | 09/95 – 08/97 | Peroxide modification of polyolefins |
Min Ma | 09/94 – 09/96 | Water-soluble polymers for sludge dewatering |
Postdoctoral fellows
Name | Duration | Project |
Jin-Jin Li | 07/17 – 06/18 | Smart composite materials |
Yin-Ning Zhou | 07/16 – 06/18 | Smart materials and kinetic modeling |
Weifeng Liu | 09/14 – 09/16 | CSTR for polyolefins |
Qi Zhang | 11/13 – 10/15 | Gas-triggered switchable polymeric materials |
Renxu (Jerry) Chen | 06/09 – 05/10 | Wax emulsifier |
Lu Wang | 03/10 – 05/10 | Wax emulsification process |
Joe Zhang | 09/08 – 09/10 | Polyshell project |
Derek Duan | 01/07 – 08/07 | Silicon surface modification |
Zhiqiang Fan | 11/99 – 04/00 | Column reactors for ATRP |
Youqing Shen | 05/98 – 08/99 | Living anionic polymerization |
Ramesh Subramanian | 11/97 – 05/99 | Reactive extrusion of flocculants |
Wenjun Wang | 04/97 – 03/99 | Continuous solution ethylene polymerization |
Keshavlal Rathi | 05/97 – 11/97 | Modeling fibre network |
Zhiyi Zhang | 02/96 – 05/96 | Polyester composites |
Dean Li | 01/96 – 07/97 | Water-soluble flocculants |
Jesus Vela-Estrada | 06/95 – 09/95 | Water-based coating |
Visiting professors
Name | Duration | Project |
Dan Liu | 12/16 – 12/17 | Polymerization kinetics |
Yong Qian | 11/15 – 01/16 | Lignin-based sunscreen |
Xiaohui Li | 04/15 – 08/15 | Digital synthesis of polymer chains |
Qiang (Frank) Ren | 09/14 – 08/15 | Synthesis of epoxy foam |
Lei Yang | 10/14 – 05/15 | Tailor-made polymer materials for textile finishing |
Guodong (Gordon) Han | 03/13 – 02/14 | Modeling polyolefin production |
Heyang Liu | 10/12 – 09/13 | Switchable controlled radical polym |
Dapeng Zhou | 05/11 – 04/12 | CSTR polyolefins |
Shujun Liang | 11/10 – 10/11 | Reactive processing |
Zhenggang Xiao | 01/10 – 12/10 | ATRP grafting |
Seyed Mohaghegh | 06/03 – 12/03 | Polycondensation kinetics |
Qiang Yu | 10/99 – 10/00 | Polymer composites for medical devices |
Chengfa Jiang | 09/99 – 08/00 | ATRP hydrogels |
Qiang Yu | 02/97 – 01/98 | ESR study on ATRP |
Visiting students
Name | Duration | Project |
Yangyang Lu | 01/16 – 04/16 | Novel smart polymer adsorbent |
Yipeng (Noah) Wei | 10/14 – 05/15 | Emulsion ATRP |
Yong Qian | 09/14 – 02/15 | Lignin modification |
Xiaohui Li | 04/13 – 10/13 | Modeling controlled radical polymerization |
Pingwei Liu | 06/12 – 09/12 | Functionalization of hyperbranched polyethylene |
Weifeng Liu | 11/10 – 10/11 | CSTR for polyolefins |
Bean Young | 10/09 – 09/10 | PE crystallization |
Boris Bitsch | 10/09 – 09/10 | Semibatch RAFT |
Esa Kokko | 03/00 – 02/01 | CSTR ethylene polymerization |
Research assistants/associates
Name | Duration | Project |
Tom Kowpak | 11/09 – 04/10 | Microcytometry and microfluid |
Jason Doggart | 09/09 – 12/09 | Polyshell |
Wenjun Wang | 04/99 – 08/01 | High-temperature polyethylene reactor system |