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Summaries of the Ober Group's research interests are listed below, along with the names of the group members working on each project. Please click on the titles or the expand/shrink links of the individual projects to read the project descriptions.


Transient Polymer Photoresists

▶ Jingyuan Deng

Figure showing the incorporation of photoacid generator (PAG) to a cleavable backbone of a chain scissionable polymer. The lower portion of the figure shows the exposure (stimulus) generate acids and trigger the degradation to monomer.

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Polymer Brushes

▶Yuming (Robin) Huang, Gozde Aktas Eken

Methods of nano-patterning polymer brushes via E-beam lithography.

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Anti-biofouling Surface-Active Block Copolymers

▶ Riddhiman Medhi

Aluminum panels (reference and SABC-coated) after 30 days of static immersion and 30 days of dynamic sea immersion (Tuticorin, India). Tests performed by Nanosurfaces Inc.

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Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors

▶ Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) Wang

Liquid crytals with immiscible ionic conducting building blocks and electronic conducting building blocks can self-assemble into specific phases generating co-continuous domains for ion and electronic carrier transport, respectively.

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Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

▶ Florian Kafer, Nick Diaco, Chenyun Yuan

Pathway of Preparing Hairy Nanoparticles.

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