At the University of Utah

2024

Caleb J. Reese, Grant M. Musgrave, Chen Wang*. Semicrystalline Polyamide Networks by Neat Photopolymerization of Liquid Monomers. Submitted 

Grant M. Musgrave, Eden Y. Yau, Sijia Huang, Caleb J. Reese, Chen Wang*. Solventless, Rapid-polymerizable Liquid Resins from Renewable Carboxylic Acids through Low-viscous Acid/Base Complexes. Submitted

Grant M. Musgrave, Anna K. Huber, Caleb J. Reese, Chen Wang*. Methacrylate-Epoxy Photopolymer Networks via Orthogonal Free-radical/Epoxy-acid Reactions in Neat Conditions. Accepted

Caleb J. ReeseGrant M. Musgrave, Chen Wang*. Controlled Orthogonal Reactions in Neat Polymerizations. Polymer Chemistry, ASAP

Caleb J. ReeseGrant M. Musgrave Jitkanya Wong Wenyang Pan John Uehlin Mason Zadan Omar Awartani Thomas J. Wallin*, Chen Wang*. Photopatternable, Degradable, and Performant Polyimide Network Substrates for E-Waste Mitigation. RSC Applied Polymers, ASAP

Amelia C. Heiner, Katie M. Bishop, Grant M. Musgrave, Anna K. Huber, Lorenz M. Cushman, Jeffrey S. Bates, Chen Wang*. Soil Compostability of Ester-based Thiol–ene Photopolymer Networks. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2024, 12, 24, 9067–9077

Caleb J. Reese, Grant M. Musgrave, Anna K. Huber, Sijia Huang, Eden Y. Yau, Chen Wang*. Ductile Glassy Polymer Networks Capable of Large Plastic Deformation and Elastic Recovery. ACS Materials Letters 6, 2714-2724

Chen Wang, Avantika Singh, Erik G Rognerud, Robynne Murray, Grant M Musgrave, Morgan Skala, Paul Murdy, Jason S DesVeaux, Scott R Nicholson, Kylee Harris, Richard Canty, Fabian Mohr, Alison J Shapiro, David Barnes, Ryan Beach, Robert D Allen, Gregg T Beckham, Nicholas A Rorrer. Synthesis, characterization, and recycling of bio-derivable polyester covalently adaptable networks for industrial composite applications. Matter, 2024, 7(2), 550-568

2023

Grant M Musgrave, Katie M Bishop, John S Kim, Amelia C Heiner, Chen Wang*. Polyester Networks from Structurally Similar Monomers: Recyclable-by-design and Upcyclable to Photopolymers. Polymer Chemistry, 2023,14, 2964-2970

Prior to the University of Utah

2019

Matthew McBride, Brady Worrell, Tobin Brown, Lewis Cox, Nancy Sowan, Chen Wang, Maciej Podgorski, Alina Martinez, Christopher Bowman. Enabling Applications of Covalent Adaptable Networks. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2019, 10, 175-198. Invited review article

2018

Chen Wang, Trevor Goldman, Brady Worrell, Matthew McBride, Marvin Alim, Christopher Bowman. Recyclable and repolymerizable thiol–X photopolymers. Materials Horizons, 2018, 5(6), 1042-1046. Featured as cover

Chen Wang, Sudheendran Mavila, Brady Worrell, Weixian Xi, Trevor Goldman, Christopher Bowman. Productive exchange of thiols and thioesters to form dynamic polythioester-based polymers. ACS Macro Letters, 2018, 7(11), 1312-1316

Sudheendran Mavila, Brady Worrell, Heidi R Culver, Trevor Goldman, Chen Wang, Chern-Hooi Lim, Dylan Domaille, Sankha Pattanayak, Matthew McBride, Charles Musgrave, Christopher Bowman. Dynamic and Responsive DNA-like Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140(42), 13594-13598

Brady Worrell, Matthew McBride, Gayla Lyon, Lewis Cox, Chen Wang, Sudheendran Mavila, Chern-Hooi Lim, Hannah Coley, Charles Musgrave, Yifu Ding, Christopher Bowman. Bistable and photoswitchable states of matter. Nature communications, 2018, 9(1), 2804

Brady Worrell, Sudheendran Mavila, Chen Wang, Taylor Kontour, Chern-Hooi Lim, Matthew McBride, Charles Musgrave, Richard Shoemaker, Christopher Bowman. A user’s guide to the thiol-thioester exchange in organic media: scope, limitations, and applications in material science. Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 9(36), 4523-4534

Dawei Zhang, Zhenzhen Liu, Danielle Konetski, Chen Wang, Brady Worrell, Christopher Bowman. Liposomes formed from photo-cleavable phospholipids: in situ formation and photo-induced enhancement in permeability. RSC Advances, 2018, 8(26), 14669-14675

Danielle Konetski, Sudheendran Mavila, Chen Wang, Brady Worrell, Christopher Bowman. Production of dynamic lipid bilayers using the reversible thiol–thioester exchange reaction. Chemical communications, 2018, 54(58), 8108-8111

2017

Chen Wang, Markus Zieger, Alexander Schenzel, Martin Wegener, Johannes Willenbacher, Christopher Barner‐Kowollik, Christopher Bowman. Photoinduced Tetrazole‐Based Functionalization of Off‐Stoichiometric Clickable Microparticles. Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27(7), 1605317. Featured on Advanced Science News

Marvin Alim, David Glugla, Sudheendran Mavila, Chen Wang, Philip Nystrom, Amy Sullivan, Robert McLeod, Christopher Bowman. High Dynamic Range (Δn) Two-Stage Photopolymers via Enhanced Solubility of a High Refractive Index Acrylate Writing Monomer. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017, 10(1), 1217-1224

Lewis Cox, Xiaohao Sun, Chen Wang, Nancy Sowan, Jason Killgore, Rong Long, Heng-An Wu, Christopher Bowman, Yifu Ding. Light-stimulated permanent shape reconfiguration in cross-linked polymer microparticles. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017, 9(16), 14422-144282017

2016

Maciej Podgórski, Chen Wang, Ye Yuan, Danielle Konetski, Ivan Smalyukh, Christopher Bowman. Pristine polysulfone networks as a class of polysulfide-derived high-performance functional materials. Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28(14), 5102-5109

Farbod Alimohammadi, Chen Wang, Olivia Durham, Hannah Norton, Christopher Bowman, Devon Shipp. Radical mediated thiol-ene/yne dispersion polymerizations. Polymer, 2016, 105, 180-186

Xinpeng Zhang, Weixian Xi, Chen Wang, Maciej Podgórski, Christopher Bowman. Visible-light-initiated thiol-michael addition polymerizations with coumarin-based photobase generators: Another photoclick reaction strategy. ACS Macro Letters, 2016, 5(2), 229-233

Kaja Kaastrup, Alan Aguirre-Soto, Chen Wang, Christopher Bowman, Jeffrey Stansbury, Hadley Sikes. UV-vis/FT-NIR in situ monitoring of visible-light induced polymerization of pegda hydrogels initiated by eosin/triethanolamine/O2. Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7(3), 592-602

2015

Chen Wang, Xinpeng Zhang, Maciej Podgórski, Weixian Xi, Parag Shah, Jeffery Stansbury, Christopher Bowman. Monodispersity/Narrow polydispersity cross-Linked microparticles prepared by step-growth thiol–Michael addition dispersion polymerizations. Macromolecules, 2015, 48(23), 8461-8470

Chen Wang, Shunsuke Chatani, Maciej Podgórski, Christopher Bowman. Thiol-Michael addition miniemulsion polymerizations: functional nanoparticles and reactive latex films. Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6(20), 3758-3763

Weixian Xi, Sankha Pattanayak, Chen Wang, Benjamin Fairbanks, Tao Gong, Justine Wagner, Christopher Kloxin, Christopher Bowman. Clickable Nucleic Acids: Sequence‐Controlled Periodic Copolymer/Oligomer Synthesis by Orthogonal Thiol‐X Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54(48), 14462-14467

Maciej Podgórski, Chen Wang, Christopher Bowman. Multiple shape memory polymers based on laminates formed from thiol-click chemistry based polymerizations. Soft Matter, 2015, 11(34), 6852-6858

2014

Chen Wang, Maciej Podgórski, Christopher Bowman. Monodisperse functional microspheres from step-growth “click” polymerizations: preparation, functionalization and implementation. Materials Horizons, 2014, 1(5), 535-539

Gayla Berg, Matthew McBride, Chen Wang, Christopher Bowman. New directions in the chemistry of shape memory polymers. Polymer, 2014, 44(23), 5849-5872

Shunsuke Chatani, Chen Wang, Maciej Podgórski, Christopher Bowman. Triple shape memory materials incorporating two distinct polymer networks formed by selective Thiol–Michael addition reactions. Macromolecules, 2014, 47(15), 4949-4954

Shunsuke Chatani, Maciej Podgórski, Chen Wang, Christopher Bowman. Facile and Efficient Synthesis of Dendrimers and One-Pot Preparation of Dendritic–Linear Polymer Conjugates via a Single Chemistry: Utilization of Kinetically Selective Thiol–Michael Addition Reactions. Macromolecules, 2014, 47(15), 4894-4900

Haiyan Peng, Devatha Nair, Benjamin Kowalski, Weixian Xi, Tao Gong, Chen Wang, Michael Cole, Neil Cramer, Xiaolin Xie, Robert McLeod, Christopher Bowman. High performance graded rainbow holograms via two-stage sequential orthogonal thiol–click chemistry. Macromolecules, 2014, 47(7), 2306-2315

2012

Jingyi Xie, Huan Wang, Huadong Bai, Peng Yang, Mengxue Shi, Peng Guo, Chen Wang, Wantai Yang, Huaihe Song. Wormlike micelle assisted rod coating: A general method for facile fabrication of large-area conductive nanomaterial thin layer onto flexible plastics. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2012, 4(6), 2891-2896