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Professor Jeffrey Pyun is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. In Fall 2004, he joined the faculty in Chemistry at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 has been a Full Professor since 2015. Prof. Pyun’s research interests focus on the synthesis, self-assembly, characterization and device evaluation of novel polymers, nanoparticles, and nanocomposites materials. He is currently working on materials are anticipated to broadly impact the areas of information storage, optical materials, sulfur utilization, photocatalysis-solar fuels and energy storage technologies. In 2002, he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University working in the area of controlled radical polymerization applied to the synthesis of organic/inorganic hybrid materials. He then moved on to postdoctoral research in a joint position with Prof. Jean M.J. Fréchet and Prof. Craig J. Hawker at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2002-2004 focusing on the synthesis of complex macromolecular architectures for catalysis. Since 2009, he has also served as a World Class University Professor, in the School of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Seoul National University. Prof. Pyun’s research contributions have been recognized by a number of prestigious awards for young investigators, namely, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and for important contributions to the magnetic tape industry thru the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Technical Achievement Award. He has also been recognized by the University of Arizona with the Innovation and Impact Award from Tech Launch Arizona and was named the Academic Innovator of the Year in 2017 from the State of Arizona. He was also recently appointed as a Kavli Fellow, an ACS PMSE Fellow (2019) and admitted into the National Academy of Inventors (2019). In 2021, he was also appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Pyun serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Polymer Science, Progress in Polymer Science and Polymer.Show Less
Courses
- OSAOrganic Structural Analysis Laboratory
- AOCAdvanced Organic Chemistry
- GCIGeneral Chemistry I
- PCPolymer Chemistry
- LOCLectures in Organic Chemistry
Student Thesis/Dissertation
- Sulfur Based Polymers and Polymer Magnetic Nanoparticle Composites: Novel Materials for Next Generation IR & Magneto-Optics
2022
doctoral - SURFACE-INITIATED ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION OF MAGNETO-OPTICALLY ACTIVE NANOCOMPOSITES: ROLE OF RANDOM COPOLYMERS FOR HIGH VERDET CONSTANT MATERIALS
2022
bachelors - Spectroelectrochemical Characterization of Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots
2021
masters - Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs): Plastics for Infrared Imaging and Photonics
2020
doctoral - Synthesis of Electrocatalytic [2Fe-2S]-Metallopolymers and Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials
2020
doctoral - Direct Utilization Of Elemental Sulfur For Novel Copolymeric Materials
2015
doctoral - Synthesis and Dipolar Assembly of Cobalt-Tipped CdSe@CdS Nanorods
2014
doctoral
Grants
- New Optical Polymers and Plastic Optics for Night Vision and Long Wave Infrared Imaging Materials
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$51.4KActive - Sulfenyl Chloride Electrophilic Addition to Olefinic Monomers: A New Step-Growth Polymerization Reaction to Prepare Optical Polymers
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$550.0KActive - Novel Sulfur Based Polymers for Optical and Photonic Systems
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$70.0KActive - Chalcogenide Polymer Infrared Optics
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$18.0KActive - DMREF: Computational Chemistry to Accelerate Development of Long Wave Infrared Polymers
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$1.9MActive - High Index Electroactive Polymer Development
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$270.2KActive - Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Sulfur Based Optical Polymers
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$140.0KActive - PFI-RP: Translational Research from Academia to Industry on Low Cost Plastic Materials for Infrared Thermal Imaging
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$676.0KActive - CAS: Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production with Polymer-Supported [2Fe-2S] Clusters
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$520.0KActive - Biomechanical Approaches and Technologies for Enhancing TAVR Outcomes
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$850.3KActive
Technologies / Patents
News
- UArizona Chemists Develop Flame Retardant Sulfur Plastics from Fossil Fuel Waste
2021
- Using Computational Chemistry to Produce Cheaper Infrared Plastic Lenses
2019
- Faculty Elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
2019
- From Inventions to Assets: Tech Launch Arizona's Pipeline
2017
- I-Squared Awards Honor Impact, Innovation
2016
- UA Researchers are Creating Better Thermal-Imaging Lens From Waste Sulfur
2014
- Better Batteries From Waste Sulfur
2013
- UA Chemist Named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
2009
- Magnetic Tape Research Earns Award for UA Chemist
2009
Publications (86)
Recent
- The use of polymers in Li-S batteries: A review.
2017
- From waste to valuable plastics-Discovery of new paradigms from well-studied systems with elemental sulfur.
2017
- Subsurface Imaging of the Cores of Polymer-Encapsulated Cobalt Nanoparticles Using Force Modulation Microscopy.
2017
- Type I vs. quasi-type II modulation in CdSe@CdS tetrapods: ramifications for noble metal tipping.
2017
- Chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers CHIPs) via inverse vulcanization and dynamic covalent polymerizations.
2017
- Multimodal Characterization of the Morphology and Functional Interfaces in Composite Electrodes for Li-S Batteries by Li Ion and Electron Beams.
2017
- Facile Assembly of Aligned Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains in Polymer Nanocomposite Films by Magnetic Flow Coating.
2017
- Inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur and styrene for polymeric cathodes in Li-S batteries.
2017
- The Importance of Confined Sulfur Nanodomains and Adjoining Electron Conductive Pathways in Subreaction Regimes of Li-S Batteries.
2017
- Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers: Ultrahigh Refractive Index Polymers for Infrared Imaging.
2017
- High Refractive Index Copolymers with Improved Thermomechanical Properties via the Inverse Vulcanization of Sulfur and 1,3,5-Triisopropenylbenzene.
2016
- Colloidal Random Terpolymers: Controlling Reactivity Ratios of Colloidal Comonomers via Metal Tipping.
2016
- Arm length dependency of Pt-decorated CdSe tetrapods on the performance of photocatalytic hydrogen generation.
2016
- Analytical Multimode Scanning and Transmission Electron Imaging and Tomography of Multiscale Structural Architectures of Sulfur Copolymer-Based Composite Cathodes for Next-Generation High-Energy Density Li-S Batteries.
2016
- Polymerizations with elemental sulfur: A novel route to high sulfur content polymers for sustainability, energy and defense.
2016
- Elemental Sulfur and Molybdenum Disulfide Composites for Li-S Batteries with Long Cycle Life and High-Rate Capability.
2016
- Synthesis and Assembly of Dipolar Heterostructured Tetrapods: Colloidal Polymers with Giant tert-butyl Groups.
2016
- Graphene quantum dots: structural integrity and oxygen functional groups for high sulfur/sulfide utilization in lithium sulfur batteries.
2016
- Conformal Polymeric Multilayer Coatings on Sulfur Cathodes via the Layer-by-Layer Deposition for High Capacity Retention in Li-S Batteries.
2016
- A one-pot synthesis of polysulfane-bearing block copolymer nanoparticles with tunable size and refractive index.
2016
- Modular synthesis of functional polymer nanoparticles from a versatile platform based on poly(pentafluorophenylmethacrylate)
2016
- Colloidal polymers from inorganic nanoparticle monomers.
2015
- Band Edge Energetics of Heterostructured Nanorods: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Waveguide Spectroelectrochemistry of Au-Tipped CdSe Nanorod Monolayers.
2015
- High Sulfur Content Polymer Nanoparticles Obtained from Interfacial Polymerization of Sodium Polysulfide and 1,2,3-Trichloropropane in Water.
2015
- Improving the Charge Conductance of Elemental Sulfur via Tandem Inverse Vulcanization and Electropolymerization.
2015
- Dynamic Covalent Polymers via Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur for Healable Infrared Optical Materials.
2015
- Universal Length Dependence of Rod-to-Seed Exciton Localization Efficiency in Type I and Quasi-Type II CdSe@CdS Nanorods.
2015
- Recent Approaches for the Direct Use of Elemental Sulfur in the Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Materials.
2015
- Structural origins of enhanced capacity retention in novel copolymerized sulfur-based composite cathodes for high-energy density Li-S batteries.
2015
- Kilogram scale inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare high capacity polymer electrodes for Li-S batteries.
2015
- Inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur with 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne for cathode materials in Li-S batteries.
2015
- Uniform decoration of Pt nanoparticles on well-defined CdSe tetrapods and the effect of their Pt cluster size on photocatalytic H2 generation.
2015
- One-pot synthesis of PbS NP/sulfur-oleylamine copolymer nanocomposites via the copolymerization of elemental sulfur with oleylamine.
2014
- Colloidal Polymers via Dipolar Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticle Monomers.
2014
- Synthesis of ferromagnetic cobalt nanoparticle tipped CdSe@CdS nanorods: critical role of Pt-activation.
2014
- Colloidal Polymers from Dipolar Assembly of Cobalt-Tipped CdSe@CdS Nanorods.
2014
- Inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare polymeric electrode materials for Li-S batteries
2014
- New infrared transmitting material via inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare high refractive index polymers
2014
- Preparation of Dynamic Covalent Polymers via Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur.
2014
- Optical properties of sulfur copolymers for infrared applications.
2014
- Single chain polymer nanoparticles via sequential ATRP and oxidative polymerization
2013
- Polyoctadecyl methacrylate brushes via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization
2013
- Synthesis, self-assembly and reversible healing of supramolecular perfluoropolyethers
2013
- The use of elemental sulfur as an alternative feedstock for polymeric materials.
2013
- Functionalization and patterning of reactive polymer brushes based on surface reversible addition and fragmentation chain transfer polymerization
2012
- Directing the deposition of ferromagnetic cobalt onto Pt-tipped CdSe@CdS nanorods: Synthetic and mechanistic insights
2012
- Polymer chemistry: Still in control
2012
- Systems engineering at the nanoscale
2012
- Self-assembly and colloidal polymerization of polymer-nanoparticle hybrids into mesoscopic chains
2012
- Controlling length and areal density of artificial cilia through the dipolar assembly of ferromagnetic nanoparticles
2012
- Magnetic self-assembly of gold nanoparticle chains using dipolar core-shell colloids
2011
- Polymer Encapsulation of Metallic and Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Multifunctional Materials with Novel Optical, Electronic and Magnetic Properties
2011
- Morphological conversion of dipolar core-shell Au-Co nanoparticles into beaded Au-Co sub 3 sub O sub 4 sub nanowires
2011
- Dipolar organization and magnetic actuation of flagella-like nanoparticle assemblies
2011
- Graphene oxide as catalyst: Application of carbon materials beyond nanotechnology
2011
- Dipolar assembly of ferromagnetic nanoparticles into magnetically driven artificial cilia
2010
- Synthesis of ferromagnetic polymer coated nanoparticles on multi-gram scale with tunable particle size
2010
- Oxidation effect in cobalt nanoparticles magnetic fluids
2009
- Colloidal Polymerization of Polymer Coated Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles into Cobalt Oxide Nanowires
2009
- Fabrication of long CdS nanowires by using a chemical solution process
2008
- Self-assembly of polymer-coated ferromagnetic nanoparticles into mesoscopic polymer chains
2008
- Field induced formation of mesoscopic polymer chains from functional ferromagnetic colloids
2007
- Synthesis and self-assembly of polymer-coated ferromagnetic nanoparticles
2007
- Nanocomposite materials from functional polymers and magnetic colloids
2007
- Polymer-coated ferromagnetic colloids from well-defined macromolecular surfactants and assembly into nanoparticle chains
2006
- Synthesis and direct visualization of block copolymers composed of different macromolecular architectures
2005
- The dramatic effect of architecture on the self-assembly of block copolymers at interfaces
2005
- Efficiency and fidelity in a click-chemistry route to triazole dendrimers by the copper(I)catalyzed ligation of azides and alkynes
2004
- Synthesis and surface attachment of ABC triblock copolymers containing glassy and rubbery segments
2004
- ABA triblock copolymers containing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane pendant groups: Synthesis and unique properties
2003
- Synthesis of Polymer Brushes Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
2003
- Synthesis of Block, Statistical, and Gradient Copolymers from Octadecyl Meth)acrylates Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
2003
- Evaluating the effect of termination by chain-chain coupling in living free-radical polymerizations
2003
- Synthesis and characterization of organic/inorganic hybrid nanoparticles: Kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization and morphology of hybrid nanoparticle ultrathin films
2003
- Macromolecules of controlled architecture
2003
- Synthesis of polypropylene-poly(meth)acrylate block copolymers using metallocene catalyzed processes and subsequent atom transfer radical polymerization
2002
- Synthesis and characterization of silica-graft-polystyrene hybrid nanoparticles: Effect of constraint on the glass-transition temperature of spherical polymer brushes
2002
- Synthesis and microstructural characterization of POSS-based triblock copolymers prepared using atom transfer radical polymerization
2000
- Synthesis of hybrid polymers using atom transfer radical polymerization: Homopolymers and block copolymers from polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane monomers
2000
- Synthesis of organic/inorganic hybrid materials using atom transfer radical polymerization
2000
- Functionalization of polymers prepared by ATRP using radical addition reactions
2000
- Synthesis of well-defined star polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization using the core-first approach
1999
- Synthesis and characterization of star polymers with varying arm number, length, and composition from organic and hybrid inorganic/ organic multifunctional initiators
1999
- The synthesis of multifunctional star and hyperbranched polymers using atom transfer radical polymerization and atom transfer radical addition
1999
- Synthesis of organic/inorganic hybrid materials from polysiloxane precursors using atom transfer radical polymerization
1999
- Preparation of hyperbranched polyacrylates by atom transfer radical polymerization, 4: The use of zero-valent copper
1998
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