A Photophysical Study of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers

有机和高分子化学计划支持马里兰大学巴尔的摩县（UMBC）化学系的丽莎凯利教授，她将制造和研究一类新的聚合物，这些聚合物可用作刺激响应材料。Kelly教授建议通过使用丙烯酰胺基共聚物来提高我们对聚合物结构如何控制机制和温度依赖性光谱变化的理解，丙烯酰胺基共聚物可以在疏水-疏水相变比率中变化。该项目将为开发刺激响应聚合物，包括用于生物传感应用的纳米颗粒提供坚实的基础。在有机和大分子化学计划的支持下，马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校化学系的丽莎凯利教授正在开发一个研究计划，该计划可以为开发刺激响应聚合物提供坚实的基础，包括用于生物传感应用的纳米尺寸颗粒。凯利教授的工作将提供有机，物理和聚合物化学领域的跨学科培训。本科生和研究生研究生将与PI合作开发苯乙烯，丙烯酰胺和水凝胶聚合物，这些聚合物具有已知形成激发态复合物的共价连接分子。研究小组将应用物理化学中的基本模型来了解反应是如何发生的。UMBC在本科和研究生阶段培养优秀的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）方面有着悠久的传统。在过去的7年里，PI定期在她的研究实验室指导URM学生。PI积极参与UMBC科学与工程组的女性，并一直是在她的实验室工作的学生的成功榜样。她的研究学生参与研究的各个方面，包括手稿和提案准备，外部审查和在国家会议上的研究报告。凭借该项目的跨学科性质，培训活动将为与PI合作的学生准备各种研究和教育事业，同时提供与化学界领导者建立联系的充分机会。

The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program supports Professor Lisa Kelly of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) who will fabricate and study a new class of polymers that have utility as stimuli-responsive materials. Professor Kelly proposes to improve our understanding of how polymer structure controls mechanism and temperature dependent spectral changes by using acrylamide based copolymers, which can be varied in the hydrophilic-hydrophobic phase transition ratio. The project will provide a strong foundation to develop stimuli-responsive polymers, including nanometer sized particles for biosensing applications.With the support of the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program, Professor Lisa Kelly of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County is developing a research program that could provide a strong foundation leading to the development of stimuli-responsive polymers, including nanometer sized particles for biosensing applications. Professor Kelly's work will provide interdisciplinary training in the fields of organic, physical, and polymer chemistry. Undergraduate and graduate research students will work as a team with the PI to develop styrene, acrylamide, and hydrogel polymers that have covalently attached molecules known to form an excited state complex. The research team will apply fundamental models in physical chemistry to understand how the response occurs. UMBC has a strong tradition of training outstanding underrepresented minorities (URM) at the undergraduate and graduate level. Over the past 7 years, the PI has regularly mentored URM students in her research lab. The PI is actively involved in the Women in Science and Engineering group at UMBC and has been a successful role model for students working in her lab. Her research students are involved in all aspects of research, including manuscript and proposal preparation, external reviewing, and research presentations at national meetings. By virtue of the interdisciplinary nature of the project, the training activities will prepare students working with the PI for a variety of research and educational careers, while providing ample opportunity to network with leaders in the chemistry community.