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New MONET Publication in ACS Applied Polymer Materials
The Kalow lab, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, synthesized two oligosiloxane-based epoxy networks that provide...
Feb 7, 20241 min read


New MONET Publication in Nano Letters
A team from the Steinmetz and Craig labs built an internal polymer “backbone” using a maleimide cross-linker to covalently interlink...
Jan 31, 20241 min read


New MONET Publication in Journal of Physics: Materials
Professors Alshakim Nelson and Stephen Craig write the "Stimuli-responsive materials" section for the 2023 Soft Matter Roadmap....
Dec 12, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in ACS Macro Letters
A team from the Olsen, Rubinstein, and Craig labs explore the question of reactivity-guided fracture in otherwise indistinguishable...
Dec 1, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Olsen lab updated a kinetic graph theory (KGT) model to account for off-stoichiometric reactive groups and side reactions...
Nov 27, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Olsen lab measured the gel point of an end-linked poly(ethylene glycol) gel during forward (bond forming) and reverse...
Nov 14, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
The Johnson lab reports bifunctional silyl ether (BSE)-containing high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-like materials synthesized through a...
Oct 29, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Polymer
A team from the Craig and Kulik groups crosslinked polybutadiene backbone polymers by complexation with two different metal salts. ...
Oct 19, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in JACS
A team from the Johnson, Craig, and Kulik labs introduce a new class of polymer metal–organic cage (polyMOC) gels featuring polyethylene...
Sep 28, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Olvera de la Cruz and Kalow labs combined coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations with a Monte Carlo method to...
Sep 28, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Klausen, Kulik, and Craig labs report the preparation of a new class of oligosilane dienes and their acyclic diene...
Aug 17, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Chemical Science
A team from the Johnson lab use ring-opening metathesis polymerization to synthesize terpolymers of (1) a “functional” monomer (e.g., a...
Aug 1, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
Scott Danielsen of the Rubinstein lab extends mean-field equilibrium theory for reversible network formation due to heterotypic pairwise...
Jul 30, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Rubinstein lab present an equilibrium statistical mechanical theory for the formation of reversible networks in...
Jul 9, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in ACS Macro Letters
Extending polymer chains results in a positive chain tension, 𝑓ch, due primarily to conformational restrictions. At the level of...
Jun 25, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Science
When a polyacrylate is crosslinked by weak, strong, or intermediate strength cross-linkers, the Craig, Johnson, and Rubinstein labs find...
Jun 21, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Chem
A team from the Kalow and Kulik labs investigate the relationship between conjugate acceptor structure, kex, and viscoelasticity for...
Jun 6, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Frontiers in Virology
A team from the Steinmetz and Craig labs investigate the effects of linear and multivalent polyethylene glycol (PEG) coatings on the...
Jun 2, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in JACS
A team from the Klausen, Johnson, Craig, and Kulik labs report the geometrically selective synthesis of trans- and cis-silacycloheptenes...
Apr 4, 20231 min read


New MONET Publication in Polymer Chemistry
A team from the Craig and Johnson labs use mechanophore force probes with discrete molecular weights to determine how the deformation and...
Mar 14, 20231 min read
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