Group News
May 2024
Graduation Celebration: We celebrated the graduation of several group members including Katie, Jordan, Naga Sai, and Mia. Congratulations to your well-deserved degrees. All of you will shine on the next page of your careers.
Graduation Celebration: We celebrated the graduation of several group members including Katie, Jordan, Naga Sai, and Mia. Congratulations to your well-deserved degrees. All of you will shine on the next page of your careers.
Faculty Highlight: Dr. Sun was selected as the recipient of University of New Haven Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
April 2024
Student Highlight: Our group member Jordan Martindale won the 2024 MS-CHEM Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congrats Jordan! A bright future is ahead after graduation.
Student Highlight: Our group member Jordan Martindale won the 2024 MS-CHEM Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congrats Jordan! A bright future is ahead after graduation.
Student Presentations: Our group members Tarek Ibrahim and Jordan Martindale delivered research talks at the 8th Annual ACS-New Haven Student Research Symposium.
Paper Accepted: Our new research article titled "Polyheptenamer: A Chemically Recyclable Polyolefin Enabled by The Low Strain of Seven-Membered Cycloheptene" is accepted to Journal of Polymer Science! This work is supported by a NSF LEAPS-MPS award (CHE-2316842) and an ACS PRF Undergraduate New Investigator award (66137-UNI7). Congrats to our student coauthors: Tarek Ibrahim, Jordan Martindale, Angelo Ritacco, and Mia Rodriguez! [Link]
March 2024
Conference: Together with Prof. Justin Kennemur (Florida State University), Prof. Junpeng Wang (University of Akron), and Prof. Yutan Getzler (Kenyon College), Dr. Sun co-organized the inaugural ROP/RCD symposium in the ACS Spring 2024 National Meeting & Exposition. In addition to enjoying the insightful talks from experts in the field, Dr. Sun also presented our lab's recent research on degradable and depolymerizable polymer materials produced via ROMP.
Conference: Together with Prof. Justin Kennemur (Florida State University), Prof. Junpeng Wang (University of Akron), and Prof. Yutan Getzler (Kenyon College), Dr. Sun co-organized the inaugural ROP/RCD symposium in the ACS Spring 2024 National Meeting & Exposition. In addition to enjoying the insightful talks from experts in the field, Dr. Sun also presented our lab's recent research on degradable and depolymerizable polymer materials produced via ROMP.
February 2024
Paper Published: Our new research article titled "Modular Approach to Bio-Based Poly(enol ether)s with Tunable Thermal Properties and Degradability" is published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials! This work is supported by the NSF LEAPS-MPS award (CHE-2316842). Congrats to our student coauthors: Tarek Ibrahim [Link]
Paper Published: Our new research article titled "Modular Approach to Bio-Based Poly(enol ether)s with Tunable Thermal Properties and Degradability" is published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials! This work is supported by the NSF LEAPS-MPS award (CHE-2316842). Congrats to our student coauthors: Tarek Ibrahim [Link]
January 2024
Paper Published: Our review article titled "Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins via Ring-Closing Metathesis Depolymerization" is published in Chemical Communications! This work is supported by a NSF LEAPS-MPS award (CHE-2316842) and an ACS PRF Undergraduate New Investigator award (66137-UNI7). Congrats to our student coauthors: Tarek Ibrahim, Angelo Ritacco, and Daniel Nalley! [Link]
Paper Published: Our review article titled "Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins via Ring-Closing Metathesis Depolymerization" is published in Chemical Communications! This work is supported by a NSF LEAPS-MPS award (CHE-2316842) and an ACS PRF Undergraduate New Investigator award (66137-UNI7). Congrats to our student coauthors: Tarek Ibrahim, Angelo Ritacco, and Daniel Nalley! [Link]
November 2023
Paper Published: Our NSF-supported research article titled "Biomass-Derived Degradable Polymers via Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Exo-Oxanorbornenes and Cyclic Enol Ethers" is published in ACS Macro Letters! Congrats to our student coauthors: Katie Durkee, Angelo Ritacco, and Tarek Ibrahim! [Link]
Paper Published: Our NSF-supported research article titled "Biomass-Derived Degradable Polymers via Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Exo-Oxanorbornenes and Cyclic Enol Ethers" is published in ACS Macro Letters! Congrats to our student coauthors: Katie Durkee, Angelo Ritacco, and Tarek Ibrahim! [Link]
Student Highlight: Our group member Tarek Ibrahim successfully passed his PhD qualifying exam today. Excellent work on the original research proposal and the presentation. Big congrats!
Student Presentation: Our group member Katie Durkee received her NASA Graduate Student Fellowship certificate, and presented her work on light-triggered self-healing materials at the 2023 NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Expo! Congrats Katie for this excellent achievement.
September 2023
Paper Published: Our research article titled "Indocyanine Green–Glycogen Conjugates for Near-Infrared-Triggered Photothermal Cancer Therapy" is now published in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics! Thank you NASA-CTSGC for supporting this research. Congrats to student coauthors: Hayat Khan, Tarek Ibrahim, and Farbod Shirinichi! [Link]
August 2023
Research Grant: Dr. Sun received his first NSF grant by the Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) program. This federal grant will support our group to continue the research on biomass-derived degradable polymer materials for a sustainable future. Thanks NSF for your strong support! [Link]
Highlighted in Charger Blog [Link]
July 2023
University highlight: Katie and Dr. Sun were highlighted in the University Charger Blog for their recent awards from NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium. [Link]
June 2023
Student Graduation: Farbod was awarded a Master of Science degree in Chemistry at UNH. He will join the University of Notre Dame as a PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congrats Farbod! We will miss you.
Research Grant: Dr. Sun received a UNH Summer Research Grant ($3,250 for summer 2023) and a UNH research fund ($2,000 for 2023-2024). Those internal grants will be used to support UNH student research in developing biomass-derived degradable polymer materials.
April 2023
Journal Highlight: Dr. Sun was selected as an emerging researcher by Journal of Polymer Science. [Link]
Research Grant: Dr. Sun received a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (NASA-CTSGC) Faculty Research Grant ($10,000 for 2023-2024). This fund will support two UNH students by providing them valuable hands-on research experience in developing self-healing polymer materials for NASA’s space-related applications. [Link]
Student Award: Congrats to our graduate student Katie Durkee for winning a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (NASA-CTSGC) Graduate Research Award. Together with Dr. Sun, Katie will develop self-healing polymers from biomass resources for space related applications.
Student Award: Congrats to our sophomore student Hayat Khan for winning the highly competitive UNH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)! Hayat will conduct undergraduate research under Dr. Sun's mentorship in summer 2023.
Student Award: Congrats to graduate students Tarek and Farbod for being selected to the 2023 TCoE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards! [Link]
November 2022
Paper Published: Our review article titled "Assembling the best of two worlds: Biomolecule-polymer nanoparticles via polymerization-induced self-assembly" is now published in Journal of Polymer Science! Congrats to student authors: Farbod, Tarek, and Mia!
October 2022
Research Grant: Dr. Sun received an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) UNI award ($55, 000 for 2023-2025. This award will support several UNH undergraduate students in STEM research related to developing novel degradable polymer materials. Thanks ACS-PRF for your generous support. [Link]
April 2022
Student Award: Sophomore student Mia Rodriguez won the highly competitive UNH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)! Mia will conduct research under the mentorship of Dr. Sun in summer 2022. Congratulations Mia!
March 2022
Research Presentation: Hao delivered a research talk titled "Peptide-Brush Polymers with Tunable Stability: A Wonderful World of Backbone Chemistry" in ACS Spring 2022 in San Diego.
December 2021
Student Award: Graduate student Farbod Shirinichi won a TCoE Endowed Graduate Student Fellowship! Congratulations to Farbod!
September 2021
The Sun Polymer Research Lab is now officially launched at the University of New Haven. Our research team is dedicated to developing novel sustainable and degradable polymer materials for various applications.
Contact
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Dr. Hao Sun
Echlin Hall, 119C West Haven, CT, 06516, USA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 (203) 479-4868 |