Publications

Deng, Erda, Kai Chen, Aubrey E. Quigley, Mengqi Yuan, Lingxiang Zhu, Zachary T. Kralles, Benny D. Freeman, Ning Dai, and Haiqing Lin, “In Situ Oxidation of Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes by Peracetic Acid for Dye Desalination,” Journal of Membrane Science, 122991 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122991. (2024 June 11)

Irving, Paul R., Kevin K. Reimund, Everett S. Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Cellulose Acetate Membranes Exhibit Exceptional Monovalent to Divalent Cation Selectivities.” Journal of Membrane Science 706, 122892, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122892. (2024 May 22)

Cater, Henry L., Marshall J. Allen, Mark I. Linnell, Adrian K. Rylski, Yudian Wu, Hsu‐Ming Lien, Filippo Mangolini, Benny D. Freeman, and Zachariah A. Page, “Supersoft Norbornene‐Based Thermoplastic Elastomers with High Strength and Upper Service Temperature.” Advanced Materials, 2402431, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202402431. (2024 May 8)

Sujanani, Rahul, Kevin K. Reimund, Kristofer L. Gleason, and Benny D. Freeman, “Hydraulic Permeation-Induced Water Concentration Gradients in Ion Exchange Membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science, 122858, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122858. (2024 May 7)

Bamford, James T., Seamus D. Jones, Nicole S. Schauser, Benjamin J. Pedretti, Leo W. Gordon, Nathaniel A. Lynd, Raphaële J. Clément, and Rachel A. Segalman. “Improved Mechanical Strength without Sacrificing Li-Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes.” ACS Macro Letters, 638-43, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00158. (2024 May 6)

Zofchak, Everett S., Aubrey E. Quigley, Jordyn G. Yoh, Harnoor S. Sachar, Kevin K. Reimund, Scott T. Milner, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Molecular and Electrostatic Origins of Mixed Salt Partitioning Phenomena in Uncharged Poly(Ethylene Oxide)-Based Membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science 702, 122800, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122800. (2024 May)

Mahanta, Debasish Das, Dennis Robinson Brown, Thomas Webber, Simone Pezzotti, Gerhard Schwaab, Songi Han, M. Scott Shell, and Martina Havenith, “Bridging the Gap in Cryopreservation Mechanism: Unraveling the Interplay between Structure, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics in Cryoprotectant Aqueous Solutions,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c00264. (2024 April 7)

Robinson Brown, Dennis Charles, Thomas Reed Webber, Thomas M. Casey, John Mark Franck, M. Scott Shell, and Songi Han, “Computation of Overhauser Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes Reveals Fundamental Correlation between Water Dynamics, Structure, and Solvent Restructuring Entropy,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP00030G. (2024 April 4)

Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “What is the Influence of Ion Aggregation and Counterion Condensation on Salt Transport in Ion Exchange Membranes?”, Journal of Membrane Science, 122713, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122713. (2024 April)

Keever, Jared M., Benjamin J. Pedretti, Zachary W. Brotherton, Jennifer Imbrogno, Yuki Kataoka, Jacob Baltzegar, Naoya Kambayashi, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Chain Extension Epoxide Polymerization to Well-Defined Block Polymers Using a N-Al Lewis Pair Catalyst,” Journal of Polymer Science n/a, no. n/a, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20240002. (2024 March)

Quigley, Aubrey, Everett S. Zofchak, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Mixed Binary Alkali Halide Salt Transport in PEO Systems,” Bulletin of the American Physical Society, APS March Meeting 2024, https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/M32.8.

Jiao, Sally and M. Scott Shell, "Inverse Design of Pore Wall Chemistry and Topology Through Active Learning of Surface Group Interactions," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 160, 124705, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0200900. (2024 March 25)

Marioni, Nico, Oscar Nordness, Zidan Zhang, Rahul Sujanani, Benny D. Freeman, Rachel A. Segalman, Raphaële J. Clément, and Venkat Ganesan, "Ion and Water Dynamics in the Transition from Dry to Wet Conditions in Salt-Doped PEG,” ACS Macro Letters, 13 (3), 341-347, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00046. (2024 March 1)

Cooper, Anthony J., Douglas J. Grzetic, Kris T. Delaney, and Glenn H. Fredrickson, "Investigating Microstructure Evolution in Block Copolymer Membranes," Journal of Chemical Physics, 160 (7), 074903, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188196. (2024 February 21)

DeStefano, Audra J., Shawn D. Mengel, Morgan W. Bates, Sally Jiao, M. Scott Shell, Songi Han, and Rachel A. Segalman, "Control over Conformational Landscapes of Polypeptoids by Monomer Sequence Patterning," Macromolecules, 57 (4), 1469-1477, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02338. (2024 February 18)

Madadi, Ashkan Ali and Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, "A Subdivision-Stabilized B-Spline Mixed Material Point Method", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 418, 116567 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116567. (2024 January 5)

Moon, Joshua D., Thomas R. Webber, Dennis Robinson Brown, Peter M. Richardson, Thomas M. Casey, Rachel A. Segalman, M. Scott Shell, and Songi Han, "Nanoscale Water-Polymer Interactions Tune MacroscopicDiffusivity of Water in Aqueous Poly(Ethylene Oxide Solutions", Chemical Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05377F. 

 

2023

Fredrickson, Glenn H. and Kris T. Delaney, Field-Theoretic Simulations in Soft Matter and Quantum Fluids, International Series of Monographs on Physics, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Jiao, Sally, Dennis C. Robinson Brown, and M. Scott Shell, "Relationaships Between Water's Structure and Solute Affinity at Polypeptoid Brush Surfaces," Langmuir, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02971. (2023 December 20)

Fredrickson, Glenn H., "Desparately Seeking Soft Structures", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(51), e2318123120, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318123120. (2023 December 19)

Garcia, Jan Ulric, Douglas R. Tree, Alyssa Bagoyo, Tatsuhiro Iwama, Kris T. Delaney, and Glenn H. Fredrickson, "Coarsening Dynamics of Ternary Polymer Solutions with Mobility and Viscosity Contrasts," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(21), 214904, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0173992. (2023 December 7)

Mahanta, Debasish Das, Dennis Robinson Brown, Simone Pezzotti, Songi Han, Gerhard Schwaab, M. Scott Shell, and Martina Havenith, "Local Solvation Structures Govern the Mixing Thermodynamics of Glycerol-Water Solutions," Chemical Science, 14(26), 7381-7392, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC00517H. 

Zhang, Zidan, Jakub Krajniak, Jacob Sass, Harnoor S. Sachar, Nico Marioni, Tyler J. Duncan, and Venkat Ganesan, "Conductivity and Transference Numbers in Lithium Salt-Doped Block Copolymeric Ionic Liquid Electrolytes," Macromolecules, 3c01791, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c0791. (2023 November 17)

Zhang, Zidan, Nico Marioni, Harnoor S. Sachar, and Venkat Ganesan, "Polymer Architecture-induced Trade-off between Conductivities and Transference Numbers in Salt-doped Polymeric Ionic Liquids," ACS Macro Latters, 12(10), 1351-1357, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00376. (2023 October 17)

Sachar, Harnoor Singh, Zidan Zhang, Nico Marioni, Everett S. Zofchak, and Venkat Ganesan, "Role of Dielectric Drag in Circumventing the Solubility-Diffusivity Trade-off in Zwitterionic Copolymer Membranes," ACS Macro Letters, 12(10), 1293-1297, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00420. (2023 October 17)

Zhang, Zidan, Ram Krishna, Everett S. Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Harnoor S. Sachar, and Venkat Ganesan, "The Influence of Counterion Structure Identity on Conductivity, Dynamical Correlations, and Ion Transport Mechanicsms in Polymerized Ionic Liquids," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(8), 084902, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159298. (2023 August 28)

Pedretti, Benjamin J., Congzhi Zhu, Hironobu Watanabe, Sadahito Aoshima, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Cascade Ring Strain Release Polymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide and Derivatives Using a Mono(u-Alkoxo)bis(alkylauminum) Initiator,” Macromolecules, 56(13), 4884-4894, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c00473. (Published 2023 June 30)

Zofchak, Everett S., Zidan Zhang, Nico Marino, Harnoor Singh Sachar, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Cation-polymer Interactions and Local Heterogeneity Determine the Relative Order of Alkali Cation Diffusion Coefficients in PEGDA Hydrogels,” Journal of Membrane Science, 685, 121898, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121898. (Accepted 2023 June 27)

Nordness, Oscar, Joshua D. Moon, Nico Marioni, Everett S. Zofchak, Peter M. Richardson, Matthew R. Landsman, Lynn E. Katz, Craig J. Hawker, Venkat Ganesan, Rachel A. Segalman, and Raphaele J. Clement, “Probing Water and Ion Diffusion in Functional Hydrogel Membranes by PFG-NMR,” Macromolecules, 56, 4669-4680, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c00306. (Published 2023 June 14)

Singh, Abhishek, Thomas G. Mason, Zhenzhen Lu, Anita J. Hill, Steven J. Pas, Boon Mia Teo, Benny D. Freeman, and Ekaterina I. Izgorodina, “Structural Elucidation of Polydopamine Facilitated by Ionic Liquid Solvation,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(21), 14700-14710, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cp05439f. (Published 2023 June 2)

Landsman, Matthew R., Sintu Rongpipi, Guillaume Freychet, Eliot Gann, Cherno Jaye, Desmond F. Lawler, Lynn E. Katz, Gregory M. Su, “Linking Water Quality, Fouling Layer Composition, and Performance of Reverse Osmosis Membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science, 680,2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121717. (Available online 2023 May 13)

Robinson Brown, Dennis Charles, Thomas R. Webber, Sally Jiao, Daniela M. Rivera Mirabal, Songi Han, and M. Scott Shell, “Relationships between Molecular Structural Order Parameters and Equilibrium Water Dynamics in Aqueous Mixtures,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(20), 4577-4594, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00826. (Published 2023 May 12)

DeStefano, Audra J., My Nguyen, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Songi Han, and Rachel A. Segalman, “Design of Soft Materials Surfaces with Rationally Tuned Water Diffusivity,” ACS Center Science, 9(5), 1019-1024, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.3c00208. (Published 2023 April 26)

Sachar, Harnoor Singh, Nico Marioni, Everett S. Zofchak, and Venkat Ganesan, “Impact of Ionic Correlations on Selective Salt Transport in Ligand-Functionalized Polymer Membranes,” Macromolecules, 56(5), 2194-2208, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02380. (Publication Date 2023 March 1)

Sujanani, Rahul, Oscar Nordness, Andres Miranda, Lynn E. Katz, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Accounting for Ion Pairing Effects on Sulfate Salt Sorption in Cation Exchange Membranes,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(8), 1842-1855, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c07900. (Published 2023 February 16)

Zhu, Congzhi, Benjamin J. Pedretti, Louise Kuehster, Venkat Ganesan, Gabriel E. Sanoja, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Ionic Conductivity, Salt Partitioning, and Phase Separation in High-Dielectric Contracts Polyether Blends and Block Polymer Electrolytes,” Macromolecules, 56(3), 1086-1096, 2023 (Publication Date 2023 January 19), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02023.

Cooper, Anthony J., Michael P. Howard, Sanket Kadulkar, David Zhao, Kris T. Delaney, Venkat Ganesan, Thomas M. Truskett, and Glenn H. Fredrickson, “Multiscale Modeling of Solute Diffusion in Triblock Copolymer Membranes,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(2), 024905, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0127570. (Published Online: 11 January 2023)

Paspureddi, Akhilesh, Zidan Zhang, Venkat Ganesan, Mukul M. Sharma, and Lynn E. Katz, “Mechanism of Monovalent and Divalent Ion Mobility in Nafion Membrane: An Atomistic Simulations Study, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(21), 214904 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145205.

Allen, Marshall J., Hsu-Ming Lien, Nathaniel Prine, Carter Burns, Adrian K. Rylski, Xiaodan Gu, Lewis M. Cox, Filippo Mangolini, Benny D. Freeman, and Zachariah A. Page, “Multimorphic Materials: Spatially Tailoring Mechanical Properties via Selective Initiation of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks,” Advanced Materials, 35(4), 2210208, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210208.

Grzetic, Douglas J., Anthony J. Cooper, Kris T. Delaney, and Glenn H. Fredrickson, “Modeling Microstructure Formation in Block Copolymer Membranes Using Dynamical Self-Consistent Field Theory,” ACS Macro Letters, 12(1), 8-13, 2023 (published 2022 December 15), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00611.

 

 

2022

Jiao, Sally, Lynn Katz, and M. Scott Shell, “Inverse Design of Pore Wall Chemistry to Control Solute Transport and Selectivity,” ACS Central Science, 8(12), 1609-1617, 2022 November 30, https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.2c01011, [Dataset] Dryad https://doi.org/doi:10.25349/D9CG8T.

Cheng, Yu-Heng, Alon Y. Kirschner, Chia-Chih Chang, Zhengwang He, Mostafa Nassr, Todd Emrick, and Benny D. Freeman, “Surface Modification of Ultrafiltration Membranes with 1,4-Benzoquinone and Polyetheramines to Improve Fouling Resistance,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(46), 52390-52401, 2022 November 8, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c14884.

Bridge, Alexander T., Matthew S. Santoso, Jessica A. Maisano, Alexander V. Hillsley, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Rapid Macrovoid Characterization in Membranes Prepared via Nonsolvent-induced Phase Separation: A Comparison Between 2D and 3D Techniques,” Journal of Membrane Science, 661, 120923, 2022, November 5, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120923.

Marioni, Nico, Zidan Zhang, Everett S. Zofchak, Harnoor S. Sachar, Sanket Kadulkar, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Impact of ion-ion correlated motion on salt transport in solvated ion exchange membranes,” ACS Macro Letters, 11(11), 1258-1264 2022 October 24, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00361.

Zhang, Zidan, Jacob Sass, Jakub Krajniak, and Venkat Ganesan, “Ion Correlations and Partial Ionicities in the Lamellar Phases of Block Copolymeric Ionic Liquids,” ACS Macro Letters, 11, 1265-1271, 2022, https://doi.org/acsmacrolett.2c00401. (Accepted 2022 October 19)

Rylski, Adrian K., Henry L. Cater, Keldy S. Mason, Marshall J. Allen, Anthony J. Arrowood, Benny D. Freeman, Gabriel E. Sanoja, and Zachariah A. Page, “Polymeric Multimaterials by Photochemical Patterning of Crystallinity,” Science, 378, 211-215, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add6975. (2022 October 14)

Izgorodina, Ekaterina, Abhishek Singh, Thomas G. Mason, and Benny D. Freeman, “Deciphering the Broadband Absorption of Eumelanin in Solution,” Research Square, 2022, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2133327/v1. (PREPRINT) (Version 1 posted 2022 OCT 6)

Aydogan Gokturk, Pinar, Rahul Sujanani, Jin Qian, Ye Wang, Lynn E. Katz, Benny D. Freeman, and Ethan J. Crumlin, “The Donnan Potential Revealed,” Nature Communications, 13(1), 5880, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33592-3. (Published online 2022 October 6)

Paspureddi, Akhilesh, Mukul M. Sharma, and Lynn E. Katz, “Effect of Dielectric Saturation on Ion Activity Coefficients in Ion Exchange Membranes,” ACS Omega, 7(35), 30823-30834, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega_2c02258. (Published 2022 August 24)

Pedretti, Benjamin J., Natalie J. Czarnecki, Congzhi Zhu, Jennifer Imbrogno, Frederick Rivers, Benny D. Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, and Nathaniel A. Lynd, “Structure−Property Relationships for Polyether-Based Electrolytes in the High-Dielectric-Constant Regime,” Macromolecules, 55(15), 6730-6738, 2022 July 27, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00639

Cater, Henry L., Iana Balynska, Marshall J. Allen, Benny D. Freeman, and Zachariah A. Page, "User Guide to Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of endo-Norbornene Monomers with Chelated Initiators," Macromolecules, 55(15), 6671-6679, 2022 July 26, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01196

Hegde, Varun, Michael Doherty, and Todd Squires. "A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transportUnite and expand for better models," Science, 377, 186-191, 2022 July 8, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm7192. 

Sachar, Harnoor Singh, Everett S. Zofchak, Nio Marioni, Zidan Zhang, Sanket Kadulkar, Tyler J. Duncan, Benny D. Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, “Impact of Cation–Ligand Interactions on the Permselectivity of Ligand-Functionalized Polymer Membranes in Single and Mixed Salt Systems,” Macromolecules, 55(11), 4821-4831, 2022 May 17, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00543.

Yan, Ni, Rahul Sujanani, Jovan Kamcev, Eui-Soung Jang, Kentaro Kobayashi, Donald Paul, Benny Freeman, "Salt and Ion Transport in a series of Crosslinked AMPS/PEGDA Hydrogel Membranes, Journal of Membrane Science, 653, 120549, 2022 April 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120549. 

Jiao, Sally, Daniela M. Rivera Mirabal, Audra J. DeStefano, Rachel A. Segalman, Songi Han, M. Scott Shell, “Sequence Modulates Polypeptoid Hydration Water Structure and Dynamics, Biomacromolecules, 23(4), 1745-1756, 2022 March 11, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01687.

Zofchak, Everett S., Zian Zhang, Nico Marioni, Tyler J. Duncan, Haroor S. Sachar, Alyssa Chamseddine, Benny D Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Cation-Ligand Interactions Dictate Salt Partitioning and Diffusivity in Ligand-Functionalized Polymer Membranes," Macromolecules, 55(6), 2260-2270 (2022 March 4). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00035

Barry, Mikayla E., Pinar Aydogan Gokturk, Audra J. DeStefano, Amanda K. Leonardi, Christopher K. Ober, Ethan J. Crumlin, Ethan J., Rachel A. Segalman, “Effects of Amphiphilic Polypeptoid Side Chains on Polymer Surface Chemistry and Hydrophilicity,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(5) 7340-7349, 2022 January 28, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22683.

Singh, Abhishek, Thomas G. Mason, Zhenzhen Lu, Boon Mia Teo, Benny D. Freeman, and Ekaterina I. Izgorodina, “Ionic Liquid Facilitated Solvent-Phase Polymerization of Ultrasmooth Coatings of Polycatecholamines,” Macro-Molecular Chemistry and Physics, 223(24), 2200313, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.202200313.

 

2021

Bridge, Alexander T., Benjamin J. Pedretti, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Preparation of Defect-free Asymmetric Gas Separation Membranes with Dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene(TM)) as a Greener Polar Aprotic Solvent," Journal of Membrane Science, 644, 120173, (2021 December 17). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120173. 

Yan, Ni, Rahul Sujanani, Jovan Kamcev, Michele Galizia, Eui-Soung Jang, Donald R. Paul, Benny D. Freeman, “Influence of Fixed Charge Concentration and Water Uptake on Ion Sorption in AMPS/PEGDA Membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science, 644, 120171, 2021 December 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120171.

Wang, Hu, Leighton O. Jones, Inhong Hwang, Marshall J. Allen, Daliao Tao, Vincent M. Lynch, Benny D. Freeman, Niveen M. Khashab, George C. Schatz, Zachariah A. Page, Jonathan L. Sessler, “Selective Separation of Lithium Chloride by Organogels Containing Strapped Calix[4]pyrroles," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143(48), 20403-20410, 2021 November 23, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10255.

Sujanani, Rahul, Lynn E. Katz, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, "Aqueous Ion Partitioning in Nafion: Applicability of Manning's Counter-Ion Condensation Theory," Journal of Membrane Science, 638, 119687 (2021 November 15). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119687.

Landsman, Matthew R., Fredrick Rivers, Benjamin J. Pedretti, Benny D. Freeman, Desmond F. Lawler, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Lynn E. Katz, "Boric Acid Removal with Polyol-functionalized Polyether Membranes," Journal of Membrane Science, 638, 119690 (2021 November 15). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119690.

Kim, Kyung Tae, Mantha Sai Pavan Jagannath, Gregory M. Su, Guillaume Freychet, Tongzhou Zeng, Kishore K. Mohanty, Graeme Henkelman, Lynn E. Katz, Charles J. Werth, "Surfactant Inhibition Mechanisms of Carbonate Mineral Dissolution in Shale," Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 625, 126857 (2021 September 20). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.126857

Warnock, S.J., Rahul Sujanani, Everett S. Zofchak, S. Zhao, T.J. Dilenschneider, Kalin G. Hanson, S. Mukherjoo, Venkat Ganesan, Benny D. Freeman, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, and Christopher M. Bates, "Engineering Li/Na Selectivity in 12-Crown-4-Functionalized Polymer Membranes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118, e2022197118 (2021 September 14). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022197118

Papananou, Hellen, Reika Katsumata, Zachary Neary, Rubayn Goh, Xiangxi Meng, Ratchana Limary, and Rachel A. Segalman, "Dopamine-Mediated Polymer Coating Facilities Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition," ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3(10), 4924-4931 (2021 September 8). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c00692.

Zofchak, Everett S., Zidan Zhang, Bill K. Wheatle, Rahul Sujanani, Samuel J. Warnock, Theodore J. Dilenschneider, Kalin G. Hanson, Shou Zhao, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Christopher M. Bates, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Origins of Lithium/Sodium Reverse Permeability Selectivity in 12-Crown-4-Functionalized Polymer Membraes," ACS Macro Letters, 10(9), 1167-1173 (2021 September 8). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00243

DeStefano, Audra J., Rachel A. Segalman, and Emily C. Davidson, "Where Biology and Traditional Polymers Meet: The Potential of Associating Sequence-Defined Polymers for Materials Science," JACS Au, 2(10), 1556-1571 (2021 August 26). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00297.

Kum, Soyoon, Matthew R. Landsman, Gregory M. Su, Guillaume Freychet, Desmond F. Lawler, and Lynn E. Katz, "Performance of a Hybrid ED-NF Membrane System for Water Recovery Improvement via NOM Fouling Control," American Chemical Society ES&T Engineering (2021 August 10). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00153.

Allen, Marshall J., Rahul Sujanani, Alyssa Chamseddine, Benny D. Freeman, Zachariah A. Page, "Mechanically Robust Hydrophobized Double Network Hydrogels and Their Fundamental Salt Transport Properties," Journal of Polymer Science,  (2021 July 26). https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20210260.

Antoine, Ségolène, Zhishuai Geng, Everett S. Zofchak, Malgorzata Chwatko, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Venkat Ganesan, Craig J. Hawker, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Rachel A. Segalman, "Non-intuitie Trends in Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameters in Polyether-Based Polymers," Macromolecules, 54(14), 6670-6677 (2021 July 14). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00134.

Zhang, Zidan, Jakub Krajniak, and Venkat Ganesan, "A Multiscale Simulation of Influence of Morphology on Transport in Block Copolymeric Ionic Liquids," Macromolecules, 54(11), 4997-5010 (27 May 2021).  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00025.

Jiao, Sally, Audra DeStefano, Jacob I. Monroe, Mikayla Barry, Nicholas Sherck, Thomas Casey, Rachel A. Segalman, Songi Han, and M. Scott Shell, "Quantifying Polypeptoid Conformational Landscapes through Integrated Experiment and Simulation," Macromolecules, 54(11), 5011-5021 (25 May 2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00550.

Moon, Joshua D., Rahul Sujanani, Zhishuai Geng, Benny D. Freeman, Rachel A. Segalman, "Versatile Synthetic Platform for Polymer Membrane Libraries Using Functional Networks," Macromolecules 54(2), 866-873 (13 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02414.

Monroe, Jacob, Sally Jiao, R. Justin Davis, Dennis Robinson Brown, Lynn E. Katz, and M. Scott Shell, "Affinity of Small-molecule Solutes to Hydrophobic, Hyudrophilic, and Chemically Patterned Interfaces in Aqueous Solution,", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118, e2020205118 (5 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020205118.

 

 

2020

Merrick, Melanie M., Rahul Sujanani, and Benny D. Freeman, "Glassy Polymers: Historical Findings, Membrane Applications, and Unresolved Questions Regarding Physical Aging," 211, 123176 (21 December 2020).

Sujanani, Rahul, Matthew R. Landsman, Sally Jiao, Joshua D. Moon, M. Scott Shell, Desmond F. Lawler, Lynn E. Katz, and Benny D. Freeman, "Designing Solute-tailored Selectivity in Membranes: Perspectives for Water Reuse and Resource Recovery," ACS Macro Letters, 9(11), 1709-1717 (8 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00710.

Sherck, Nicolas, Thomas Webber, Dennis Robinson Brown, Timothy Keller, Mikayla Barry, Audra DeStefano, Sally Jiao, Rachel A. Segalman, Glenn H. Fredrickson, M. Scott Shell, and Songi Han, "End-to-Eng Distance Probability Distributions of Dilute Poly(ethylene oxide in Aqueous Solution," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(46), 19631-19641 (3 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c08709.

Kum, Soyoon, Desmond F. Lawler, and Lynn E. Katz, "Separation Characteristics of Cations and Natural Organic Matter in Electrodialysis," Separation and Purification Technology, 250, 117070 (1 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117070

Garcia, Jan Ulric, Tatsuhiro Iwama, Eva Y. Chan, Douglas R. Tree, Kris T. Delaney, and Glenn H. Fredrickson, "Mechanisms of Asymmetric Membrane Formation in Nonsolvent Induced Phase Separation," ACS Macro Letters, 9, 1617-1624 (26 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00609

Galizia, Michele, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, "Co-ion Specific Effect on Sodium Halides Sorption and Transport in a Cross-linked Poly(p-styrene sulfonate-co-divinylbenzene) for Membrane Applications," Journal of Membrane Science, 612, 118410 (15 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118410

Landsman, Matthew R., Desmond F. Lawler, and Lynn E. Katz, "Application of Electrodialysis Pretreatment to Enhance Boron Removal and Reduce Fouling During Desalination by Nanofiltration/Reverse Osmosis," Desalination, 491, 114563 (1 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114563.

Gokturk, Pinar Aydogan, Mikayla Barry, Rachel Segalman, and Ethan J. Crumlin, "Directly Probing Polymer Thin Film Chemistry and Counterion Influence on Water Sorption," ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c00756

Barry, Mikayla E., Matthew R. Landsman, Sheik M. Nomaan, Pinar Aydogan Gokturk, Carolyn M. Cooper, Benjamin A. Kienzle, Cameron McKay, and Lynn E. Katz, "Expanding the Use of Synchrotron Techniques for Water Treatment from Minerals to Membranes," Journal of Synchrotron Radiation News, 33(4), 3 (25 August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2020.1784693

Howard, Michael P. and Arash Nikoubashman, "Stratification of Polymer Mixtures in Drying Droplets: Hydrodynamics and Diffusion," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 054901 (4 August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0014429

Moon, Joshua D., Benny D. Freeman, Craig J. Hawker, and Rachel A. Segalman, "Can Self-Assembly Address the Permeability/Selectivity Trade-Off in Polymer Membranes," Macromolecules, 53(14), 5649-5654 (28 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01111.

Brennecke, Joan F. and Benny D. Freeman, "Reimagining Petroleum Refining," Science, 369(6501), 254-255 (17 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd1307

Geng, Zhishuai, Nicole S. Schauser, Jongbok Lee, Rayco P. Schmeller, Stephanie M. Barbon, Rachel A. Segalman, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Craig J. Hawker, "Role of Side-Chain Architecture in Poly(ethylene oxide)-Based Copolymers," Macromolecules, 53(12), 4960-4967 (10 June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01116

Landsman, Matthew R., Rahul Sujanani, Samuel H. Brodfuehrer, Carolyn M. Cooper, Addison G. Darr, R. Justin Davis, Kyungtae Kim, Soyoon Kum, Lauren K. Nalley, Sheik M. Nomaan, Cameron P. Oden, Akhilesh Paspureddi, Kevin K. Reimund, Lewis Sstetson Rowles III, Seulki Yeo, Desmond F. Lawler, Benny D. Freeman, and Lynn E. Katz, "Water Treatment: Are Membranes the Panacea?", Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 11, 559-585 (June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-111919-091940

Monroe, Jacob, Mikayla Barry, Audra DeStefano, Pinar Aydogan Gokturk, Sally Jiao, Dennis Robinson-Brown, Thomas Webber, Ethan J. Crumlin, Songi Han, and M. Scott Shell, "Water Structure and Properties at Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Surfaces, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 11, 523-557 (June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-120919-114657

Chen, G.Q., K. Wei, A. Hassanvand, B.D. Freeman, and S.E. Kentish, "Single and Binary Ion Sorption Equilibria of Monovalent and Divalent Ions in Commercial Ion Exchange Membranes," Water Research, 175, 115681 (15 May 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115681.

Sherman, Zachary M., Michael P. Howard, Beth A. Lindquist, Ryan B. Jadrich, and Thomas M. Truskett, "Inverse Methods for Design of Soft Materials," J. Chem. Phys., 152, 140902 (9 April 2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5145177

Schauser, Nicole S., Douglas J. Grzetic, Tarnuma Tabassum, Gabrielle A. Kliegle, My Linh Le, Ethan M. Susca, Ségolène Antoine, Timothy J. Keller, Kris T. Delaney, Songi Han, Ram Seshadri, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Rachel A. Segalman, "The Role of Backbone Polarity on Aggregation and Conduction of Ions in Polymer Electrolytes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142(15), 7055-7065 (3 April 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c00587

Jang, Eui-Soung, Jovan Kamcev, Kentaro Kobayashi, Ni Yan, Rahul Sujanani, Theodore J. Dilenschneider, Ho Bum Park, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, "Influence of Water Content on Alkali Metal Chloride Transport in Cross-linked Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate. 2. Ion Diffusion," Polymer, 192, 122316 (27 March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122316

Howard, Michael P., Joshua Lequieu, Kris T. Delaney, Venkat Ganesan, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Thomas M. Truskett, "Connecting Solute Diffusion to Morphology in Triblock Copolymer Membranes," Macromolecules, 53(7), 2336-2343 (18 March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00104.

Lu, Jun, Huachang Zhang, Jue Hou, Xingya Li, Xiaoyi Hu, Yaoxin Hu, Christopher D. Easton, Qinye Li, Chenghua Sun, Aaron W. Thornton, Matthew R. Hill, Xiwang Zhang, Gengping Jiang, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Anita J. Hill, Benny D. Freeman, Lei Jiang, and Huanting Wang, "Efficient Metal Ion Sieving in Rectifying Subnanochannels Enabled by Metal-Organic Frameworks," Nature Materials, (9 March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0634-7.

Yoon, Hee Wook, Cara M. Doherty, Tae Hoon Lee, Tae Hwan Choi, Ji Soo Roh, Hyo Won Kim, Young Hoon Cho, Si-Hyun Do, Benny D. Freeman and Ho Bum Park, "Origin of CO(2)-philic Sorption of Graphene Oxide Layered Nanosheets and Its Derivatives," J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11(6), 2356-2362 (27 February 2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00204.

Aryal, Dipak, Michael P. Howard, Rituparna Samanta, Segolene Antoine, Rachel Segalman, Thomas M. Truskett, and Venkat Ganesan, "Influence of Pore Morphology on the Diffusion of Water in Triblock Copolymer Membranes," J. Chem. Phys., 152, 014904 (7 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5128119.

 

 

2019

Zhang, Zidan, Bill K. Wheatle, Jakub Krajniak, Jordan R. Keith, and Venkat Ganesan, "Ion Mobilities, Transference Numbers, and Inverse Haven Ratios of Polymeric Ionic Liquids," ACS Macro Lett., 9(1), 84-89 (31 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00908.

Li, Xingya, Huachang Zhang, Peiyao Wang, Jue Hou, Jun Lu, Christopher D. Easton, Xiwang Zhang, Matthew R. Hill, Aaron W. Thornton, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Benny D. Freeman, Anita J. Hill, Lie Jiang, and Huanting Wang, “Fast and Selective Fluoride Conduction in Sub-1- nanometer Metal-Organic Framework Channels,” Nature Communications, 10, Article Number 2490 (11 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10420-9.

Zhang, Zidan, Jakub Krajniak, Jordan R. Keith, and Venkat Ganesan, "Mechanisms of Ion Transport in Block Copolymeric Polymerized Ionic Liquids," ACS Macro Lett. 8(9), 1096-1101 (15 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00478.

Moon, Joshua D. and Benny D. Freeman, "Ordered Polymeric Membranes Using Metals," Nature Materials, 18, 92-93 (February 2019). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-018-0235-x.

Barry, Mikayla, E. Davidson, E. Crumlin, and R. Segalman, "(Near-) Ambient Pressure XPS for Studying Surface Reconstrcution of Hydrated Polymers," APS March Meeting 2019, abstract id.K49.012. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019APS..MARK49012B.

Jang, Eui-Soung, Jovan Kamcev, Kentaro Kobayashi, Ni Yan, Rahul Sujanani, Theodore J. Dilenschneider, Ho Bum Park, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, “Influence of Water Content on Alkali Metal Chloride Transport in Cross-Linked Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate. I. Ion Sorption,” Polymer, 178, 121554 (12 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2019.121554.

Bates, Morgan W., Joshua Lequieu, Stephanie M. Barbon, Ronald M. Lewis III, Kris T. Delaney, Athina Anastasaki, Craig J. Hawker, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Christopher M. Bates, "Stability of the A15 Phase in Diblock Copolymer Melts," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), (17 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900121116.

Jang, Eui-Soung, Jovan Kamcev, Kentaro Kobayashi, Ni Yan, Rahul Sujanani, Samantha J. Talley, Robert B. Moore, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, "Effect of Water Content on Sodium Chloride Sorption in Cross-Linked Cation Exchange Membranes," Macromolecules, 52, 2569-2579, (14 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02550.

Howard, Michael P., Thomas M. Truskett, and Arash Nikoubashman, "Cross-stream Migration of a Brownian Droplet in a Polymer Solution Under Poiseuille Flow," Soft Matter, 15, 3168-3178 (11 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm02552e.

Howard, Michael P., Arash Nikoubashman, and Jeremy C. Palmer, "Modeling Hydrodynamic Interactions in Soft Materials with Multiparticle Collision Dynamics," Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 23, 34-43 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2019.02.007.

Galizia, Michele, Gerald S. Manning, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, "Ion Partitioning Between Brines and Ion Exchange Polymers," Polymer, 165, 91-100 (28 February 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2019.01.026

Jang, Eui-Soung, William Mickols, Rahul Sujanani, Alysha Helenic, Theodore J. Dilenschneider, Jovan Kamcev, Donald R. Paul, and Benny D. Freeman, “Influence of Concentration Polarization and Thermodynamic Non-ideality on Salt Transport in Reverse Osmosis Membranes,” Journal of Membrane Science, 572, 668-675 (15 February 2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2018.11.006.

 

2018

Aryal, Dipak and Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of Cross-linking of Polymers on Transport of Salt and Water in Polyelectrolyte Membranes: A Mesoscopic Simulation Study," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 149, 224902 (13 December 2018), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5057708