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Advanced Functional Polymers Lab
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The lab creates polymers by living cationic polymerization to produce materials that respond to stimuli.
AboutAbout the lab
Shaping materials by polymerization to respond to their environment
The Advanced Functional Polymers Lab studies how to build the structures of various polymers using a method called living cationic polymerization.
Based on this, it aims to synthesize materials with functionality and stimuli responsiveness.
Its main research themes are supramolecular polymer networks, intermolecular interactions, and thermoresponsive hydrogels.
The lab also works on molecular association through halogen bonding and on actuator gels that change shape with temperature.
Key terms
- Living cationic polymerization
- A polymerization method in which the chain ends remain reactive, allowing polymers to be made with uniform length and structure
- Supramolecular polymer network
- A polymer network connected not by covalent bonds but by weak attractions between molecules
- Thermoresponsive hydrogel
- A gel that absorbs or releases water as the temperature changes, thereby changing how much it swells
ResearchResearch themes
Using living cationic polymerization, the lab builds a variety of polymer structures and synthesizes materials with functionality and stimuli responsiveness.
*Illustrative imageMaking materials with living cationic polymerization
The lab makes polymers with various structures by living cationic polymerization and synthesizes materials with functions and responsiveness to stimuli.
*Illustrative imagePolymers with halogen bonds
The lab synthesized three new vinyl ether monomers containing halogen-bond-forming moieties, converted them into polymers by cationic polymerization, and confirmed that they show distinct halogen bonding (2022).
MembersFaculty
- LecturerLANDENBERGER Kira B.
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Uncolored plastic granules” Rohini / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Making materials with living cationic polymerization: “Vinyl-ether-3D-balls” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
- Polymers with halogen bonds: “Silsesquixane halogen bond” Wisznu101 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Inorganic Structural Chemistry Lab): “Laser glass sculpture caffeine molecule” E. Goodman / Public domain (cropped)
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