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†denotes equal contributions. *denotes corresponding authors.Δdenotes undergraduate students
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Publications at UNH

2023

43. Omar F. Emon*, Hao Sun, Ahadur Rahim, Jae-Won Choi, "An Ionic Liquid-Based Stretchable Sensor for Measuring Normal and Shear Force", Soft Robotics, 2023, in press. [Link]
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42. Kagya Amoako*, Rikki Kaufman, Waad Haddad, Romario Pusey, Venkata Sanisetty, Hao Sun, David Skoog, Keith E. Cook, "Zwitterionic Poly-sulfobetaine Coating and Antiplatelet Liposomes Reduce Fouling in Artificial Lung Circuits", Macromolecular Bioscience, 2023, e2200479. [Link]
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41. Wei Cao*, Haochuan Mao, Naneki C. McCallum, Xuhao Zhou, Hao Sun, Christopher Sharpe, Joanna Korpanty, Ziying Hu, Qing Zhe Ni, Michael D. Burkart, Matthew D. Shawkey, Michael R. Wasielewski, Nathan C. Gianneschi*, "Biomimetic Pheomelanin to Unravel the Electronic, Molecular and Supramolecular Structure of the Natural Product", ​Chemical Science, 2023, Accepted [Link]
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2022

40. Farbod Shirinichi†, Tarek Ibrahim†, Mia RodriguezΔ, Hao Sun*, "Assembling The Best of Two Worlds: Biomolecule-Polymer Nanoparticles via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly", Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/pol.20220614. (Invited) [Link]
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39. Soumik Das, JungHyun Noh, Wei Cao, Hao Sun, Nathan C. Gianneschi*, Nicholas L. Abbott*, "Using Nanoscopic Solvent Defects for Spatial and Temporal Manipulation of Single Assemblies of Molecules", Nano Letters, 2022, 22, 18, 7506–7514. [Link]
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38. Xin Wang†, Hao Sun†, Young-Ki Kim, Daniel B. Wright, Michael Tsuei, Nathan C. Gianneschi,* Nicholas L. Abbott*, "Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystal Printheads for Spatial and Temporal Control of Polymerization", Advanced Materials, 2022, 32, 2106535. [Link]
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37. Michael Tsuei, Hao Sun, Young-Ki Kim, Xin Wang, Nathan C. Gianneschi*, Nicholas L. Abbott*, "Interfacial Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexes Regulate Escape of Microdroplets Elastically Trapped in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals", Langmuir, 2022, 38, 1, 332–342. [Link]
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36. Hao Sun†, Baofu Qiao†, Wonmin Choi†, Nicholas Hampu, Naneki C. McCallum, Matthew P. Thompson, Julia Oktawiec, Steven Weigand, Omar M. Ebrahim, Monica Olvera de la Cruz*, Nathan C. Gianneschi*, "Origin of Proteolytic Stability of Peptide-Brush Polymers as Globular Proteomimetics", ACS Central Science, 2021, 7, 12, 2063–2072. [Link]
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Publications Prior to UNH

2021

35. Sun, H.†​, Liang, Y.†, Thompson, M.P., Gianneschi, N.C.*, "Degradable Polymers via Olefin Metathesis Polymerization", Prog. Polym. Sci., 2021, 120, 101427. [Link]
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34. Scheutz, G.M.,  Elgoyhen, J., Bentz, K.C., Xia, Y., Sun, H., Zhao, J., Savin, D.A., Sumerlin, B.S.*, "Mediating Covalent Crosslinking of Single-Chain Nanoparticles through Solvophobicity in Organic Solvents", Polym. Chem., 2021, 12, 4462-4466. [Link]
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33. Zhou, X., Gong, X., Cao, W., Forman, C.J., Oktawiec, J., D’ Alba, L., Sun, H., Thompson, M.P., Hu, Z., Kapoor, U., McCallum, N.C., Malliakas, C.D., Farha, O.K., Jayaraman, A., Shawkey, M.D., Gianneschi, N.C.*, "Anisotropic Synthetic Allomelanin Materials via Solid State Polymerization of Self-Assembled 1,8-Dihydroxynaphthalene Dimers", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 32, 17464-17471. [Link]
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32. Hu, Z., Sun, H., Thompson, M.P., Xiao, M., Allen, M.C., Zhou, X., Ni, Q., Wang, Z., Li, W., Burkart, M.D., Deheyn, D.D., Dhinojwala, A., Shawkey, M.D., Gianneschi, N.C.*, "Structurally Colored Inks from Synthetic Melanin-Based Crosslinked Supraparticles", ACS Materials Lett., 2021, 3, 50–55. [Link]
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2020
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31. Sun, H.†, Cao, W.†, Zang, N.†, Clemons, T. D., Scheutz, G. M., Hu, Z., Thompson, M. P., Liang, Y., Vratsanos, M., Zhou, X., Choi, W., Sumerlin, B. S., Stupp, S. I, Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Proapoptotic Peptide Brush Polymer Nanoparticles via Photoinitiated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.” Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 43, 19136-19142. [Link]
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30. Choi, W.; Sun, H.; Battistella, C.; Berger, O.; Vratsanos, M.A.; Wang, M.; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Biomolecular densely grafted brush polymers: oligonucleotides, oligosaccharides and oligopeptides”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 45, 19762-19772. [Link].
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​29. Zhu, J.; Sun, H.; Callmann, C. E.; Thompson, M. P.; Battistella, C.; Proetto, M. T.; Carlini, A.S.; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Paclitaxel-terminated peptide brush polymers”, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 6778-6781​. (Selected for Back cover)
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28. ​Liang, Y.; Sun, H.*; Cao, W.; Thompson, M. P.; Gianneschi, N. C.* "Degradable Polyphosphoramidate via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization." ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 10, 1417–1422​. [Link]
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27. ​Noh, J.; Cao, W.; Sun, H.; Yang, Y.; Gianneschi, N. C.*; Abbott, N.*, “Self-Assembly of Macromolecules within Single Topological Defects of Nematic Solvents”, Chem. Mater., 2020, 32, 15, 6753–6764. [Link]
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26. Cao, W.; McCallum, N. C.; Ni, Q. Z.; Li W., Boyce, H.; Mao, H.; Zhou, X.; Sun, H.; Thompson, M. P.; Battistella, C.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Dhinojwala, A.; Shawkey, M. D.; Burkart, M. D.; Wang, Z.; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Selenomelanin: An Abiotic Selenium Analogue of Pheomelanin”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 29, 12802–12810. [Link]
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25. Cavell, A.; Krasecki, V.; Li, G.; Sharma, A.; Sun, H.; Thompson, M.P.; Forman, C.J.; Guo, S.; Hickman, R. J.; Parrish, K.; Aspuru-Guzik, A.; Cronin, L.; Gianneschi, N. C.; Goldsmith, R. H.*, “Optical monitoring of polymerizations in droplets with high temporal dynamic range”, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 2647-2656.
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24. Dobbins, D. J.; Scheutz, G. M.; Sun, H.; Crouse, C.A.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Glass Transition Temperature Governs the Thermal Decrosslinking Behavior of Diels-Alder Crosslinked Polymethacrylate Networks”, J. Polym. Sci., 2020, 58, 193-203.
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2019

23. Sun, H.; Choi, W.; Zang, N.; Battistella, C.; Thompson, M. P.; Cao, W.; Zhou, X.; Forman, C.; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Bioactive Peptide Brush Polymers via Photoinduced Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 17359-17364 (Selected for Back cover).
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22. Sun, H.; Yang, L; Thompson, M. P; Schara, SΔ; Cao, W; Choi, W; Hu, Z; Zang, N; Tan, W*; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Recent Advances in Amphiphilic Polymer-Oligonucleotide Nanomaterials via Living/Controlled Polymerization Technologies”, Bioconjug. Chem., 2019, 30, 7, 1889-1904.
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21. Liu, D.; Zeng, R.; Sun, H.; Zhang, L.; Tan, J.*, “Blue Light-Initiated Alcoholic RAFT Dispersion Polymerization of Benzyl Methacrylate: A Detailed Study”, Polymers, 2019, 11(8), 1284.
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20. Touve, M.A.; Wright, D. B.; Mu, C.; Sun, H.; Park, C.; Gianneschi, N. C.*, “Block Copolymer Amphiphile Phase Diagrams by High-Throughput Transmission Electron Microscopy”, Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 5529-5537.
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19. Fuller, E. G. †; Sun, H. †; Dhavalikar, R. D.; Unni, M.; Scheutz, G. M.; Sumerlin, B. S.*; Rinaldi, C.*, “Externally triggered heat and drug release from magnetically controlled nanocarriers”, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019, 1, 211-220. (#co-first author; Editor’s top pick)
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18. Sun, H.; Kabb, C. P.; Sims, M. B.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Architecture-transformable polymers: reshaping the future of stimuli-responsive polymers”, Prog. Polym. Sci., 2019, 89, 61-75. (ESI highly cited paper)
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17. Tan, J.*; Dai, X.; Zhang, Y.; Yu, L.; Sun, H.; Zhang, L.*, “Photoinitiated polymerization-induced self-assembly via visible light-induced RAFT-mediated emulsion polymerization”, ACS Macro Lett, 2019, 8, 205-212. (Selected for cover; ESI highly cited paper)
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2018

16. Yang, L.; Sun, H.; Liu, Y.; Hou, W.; Yang, Y.; Cai, R.; Cui, C.; Zhang, P.; Pan, X.; Li, X.; Li, L.; Sumerlin, B. S.*; Tan, W.*, “Self-assembled aptamer-hyperbranched polymer nanocarrier for targeted and photoresponsive drug delivery”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 17048-17052.
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15. Tang, H.; Luan, Y.; Yang, L.; Sun, H.*, “A perspective on reversibility in controlled polymerization systems: recent progress and new opportunities”, Molecules, 2018, 23(11), 2870. (Corresponding author, invited)
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14. Liu, Y.; Sun, H.; Yang, L.; Liang, J.; Li, X.; Jiang, Y.; Hou, W.; Ferreira, C.; Talham, D. R.; Tan, W.*, “Chelation-assisted assembly of multidentate colloidal nanoparticles into metal-organic nanoparticles”, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 21369-21373.
13. Yang, L.; Tang, H.; Sun, H.*, “Progress in photo-responsive polypeptide derived nano-assemblies”, Micromachines, 2018, 9, 296. (Corresponding author)
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12. Li, X.; Figg, A.; Wang, R.; Jiang, Y.; Lyu, Y.; Sun, H.; Liu, Y.; Wang, Y.; Hou, W.; Cai, R.; Cui, C.; Li, L.; Pan, X.; Sumerlin, B. S.*; Tan, W.*, “Cross-linked aptamer-lipid micelles for excellent stability and specificity in target cell recognition”,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 115899-11593.
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2017

11. Sun, H.; Kabb, C. P.; Dai, Y.; Hill, M. R.; Ghiviriga, I.; Bapat, A. P.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Macromolecular metamorphosis via stimulus-induced transformations of polymer architecture”, Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 817-823. (Highlighted in Chemistry World 2017, February 21st).
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10. Dai, Y.; Sun, H.; Pal, S.; Zhang, Y.; Park, S.; Kabb, C. P.; Wei, W.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Near-IR-induced dissociation of thermally-sensitive star polymers”, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1815-1821.
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9. Liu, Y.; Hou, W.; Sun, H.; Cui, C.; Zhang, L.; Jiang, Y.; Wu, Y.; Wang, Y.; Li, J.; Sumerlin, B. S.*; Liu, Q.*; Tan, W.*, “Thiol-ene click chemistry: a biocompatible way for orthogonal bioconjugation of colloidal Nanoparticles”, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 6182-6187.
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8. Wan, S.; Zhang, L.; Wang, S.; Liu, Y.; Wu, C.; Cui, C.; Sun, H.; Shi, M.; Jiang, Y.; Li, L.; Qiu, L.; Tan, W.*, “Molecular recognition-based DNA nanoassemblies on the surfaces of nanosized exosomes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139 (15), 5289-5292. (ESI highly cited paper)
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7. Alfurhood, J. A.; Sun, H.; Kabb, C. P.; Tucker, B. S.; Matthews, J. H.; Luesch, H.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide)-valproic acid conjugates as block copolymer nanocarriers”, Polym. Chem., 2017, 8, 4983-4987.
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2016

6. Wang, Y.; Wu, C.; Chen, T.; Sun, H.; Cansiz, S.; Zhang, L.; Cui, C.; Hou, W.; Wu, Y.; Wan, S.; Cai, R.; Liu, Y.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Zhang, X.; Tan, W.*, “DNA micelle flares: a study of the basic properties that contribute to enhanced stability and binding affinity in complex biological systems”, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 6041-6049.
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5. Dong, P.; Sun, H.; Quan, D.*, “Synthesis of poly(L-lactide-co-5-amino-5-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-ones)[P(L-LA-co-TAc)] containing amino groups via organocatalysis and post-polymerization functionalization”, Polymer, 2016, 97, 614-622.
4. Alfurhood, J. A.; Sun, H.; Bachler, P. R.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Hyperbranched poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide) via RAFT self-condensing vinyl polymerization”, Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 2099-2104.
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3. Sun, H.; Dobbins, D.J.; Dai, Y.; Kabb, C. P.; Wu, S.; Alfurhood, J. A.; Rinaldi, C.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Radical departure: thermally-triggered degradation of azo-containing poly(β-thioester)s”, ACS Macro lett, 2016, 5, 688-693.
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Before 2016

2. Tan, J.*; Sun, H.; Yu, M.; Sumerlin, B. S.*; Zhang, L.*, “Photo-PISA: Shedding light on polymerization-induced self-assembly”, ACS Macro lett, 2015, 4, 1249-1253. (ESI highly cited paper)
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1. Sun, H.; Kabb, C. P.; Sumerlin, B. S.*, “Thermally-labile segmented hyperbranched copolymers: using reversible-covalent chemistry to investigate the mechanism of self-condensing vinyl copolymerization”, Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 4646-4655. ​
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Patents

​1. Rinaldi, C.; Sun, H.; Sumerlin, B. S., “Magnetic Particle Conjugates, Micelles, and Methods of Delivering Agents” PCT/US17/028852, WO2017189356A1, 2019. [Link]

2. . Gianneschi, N.C.; Lavine, J.A.; Zhang, B.; Berger, O.; Choi, W.; Wang, M.; Battistella, C.; Sun, H., “Brush Polymers for Therapeutic Applications” PCT/US2020/045729, WO/2021/030326, 2021. [Link]

3. Gianneschi, N.C.; Sun, H., “Bioactive Peptide Brush Polymers via Photoinduced Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization” PCT/US2020/053308, WO/2021/067293, 2021. [Link]

4. Gianneschi, N.C.; Liang, Y.; 
Sun, H., “Fully and Partially Backbone-Degradable Polymers via Low Temperature Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)” PCT/US2021/040072, WO/2022/006387, 2022. [Link]

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