Graduate student Brecklyn Groce and biology junior Madison Ferguson from the Pojman research team investigated cationic frontal polymerization of various epoxy and vinyl ether monomers using only a superacid-generating iodonium salt, with initiation by heat or UV light.
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'Spooky' Super Science Saturday
Date: October 28, 2023
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM
Location: LSU Pete Maravich Assembly Center Concourse - Upper Level
Free Admission! Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Baton Rouge Food Bank.
Research Highlights
The Wilson-Kennedy research group investigates how diverse intersectional groups of low-income undergraduate STEM students utilize and leverage their identities, skillsets, and resources to establish connections to their scientific community, impacting retention and persistence in STEM disciplines.
Redox flow batteries have presented a means to bridge the gap between green energy sources and on-demand grid level energy storage. The Elgrishi research group is helping explore this potential by investigating the electrochemical properties of organometallic complexes and their interactions with commonly used support electrolyte salts.
The Pojman research team investigated the effects of adding clay fillers to an epoxy-vinyl ether cationic frontal polymerization system. Learn how adding fillers can improve the properties of polymer composites generated by frontal polymerization and affect front kinetics.
Xuxian He (graduate student, Lee Group) and coworkers synthesized new molecular receptors that use nitrone C-H groups to bind anions. They recognized that nitrone C-H groups are greatly polarized and demonstrated their efficacy as hydrogen bond donors for binding anions.
A comprehensive review of frontal polymerization co-authored by Professor John Pojman, LSU Chemistry graduate student Brecklyn Groce, and collaborators from Italy and Illinois. The review examines the physical and chemical phenomena that govern frontal polymerization and existing applications.
In the 2021 Emerging Investigators series, the Elgrishi research group reports how the choice of buffer impacts the electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI) for drinking water purification.
In the special issue highlighting Emerging Leaders of Coordination Chemistry, the Elgrishi research group reports how to control the synthesis of nanocages made from titanium or steer the reaction toward forming new football-shaped molecular capsules.
The Pojman research group and collaborators generated 3D spheroids using encapsulated cells in thiol–acrylate (TA) hydrogel scaffold droplets to study the endocrine response in ER+ breast cancer. This study provides an alternative approach to generating 3D spheroids with an easy-to-use, inexpensive scaffold.
The Haber and Schneider research groups examined acetaminophen-induced changes in the adsorption and transport properties of malachite green isothiocyanate dye to the surface of unilamellar 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) liposomes in an aqueous colloidal suspension using time-resolved SHG spectroscopy.