Macromolecular materials and hybrid materials are of high interest because of the number of synthesis routes and the design-to-property correlation. Achieving self-assembly and directed assembly systems are some of the ways to design new functions based on the use of interfacial ordering and nanostructuring. By controlling the aspects of kinetics and thermodynamics of molecular design, intrinsic and extrinsic properties, energy, and mechanistic insights on various chemical reaction pathways are possible. With macromolecules or polymers, the high molecular weight, molecular weight distribution (MWD), linearity or branching microstructure, and end group functionality offer almost an infinitesimally large number of possible combinations that pose a challenge in defining structure- composition- processing- property (SCPP) relationships. With AI/ML, optimizing synthesis or characterization experiments can be made closer to heuristics. We have targeted the precision synthesis of molecules, macromolecules, hybrid materials, and supramolecular connectivity and ordering in our projects.

Publications on this topic:

• A Trefoil Knotted Polymer Produced through Ring Expansion
• On the Interfacial Behavior of Catenated Poly(l-lactide) at the Air–Water Interface
• Hybrid Semiconductor Nanoparticles: π-Conjugated Ligands and Nanostructured Films
• A Facile Synthesis Route to Thiol-Functionalized α,ω-Telechelic Polymers via Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization
• A First Synthesis of Thiophene Dendrimers
• Decreased Aggregation Phenomena in Polyfluorenes by Introducing Carbazole Copolymer Units
• Design, Synthesis, and Photochemical Behavior of Poly(benzyl ester) Dendrimers with Azobenzene Groups throughout Their Architecture
• Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers via PET-RAFT Self-Condensing Vinyl Polymerization in a Flow Reactor