VINCENT P RIGOGLIOSO

Chang-Uk, Jianxun, Brock, and Cody review the recent developments in the world of additive manufacturing with high-performance polymers, and then offer their perspective on the field’s future directions and challenges. Check out their article here: …

Thanks to the award from MRSEC, the Boydston Group will be collaborating to investigate multiscale soft composite materials. With this research, we hope to pave the way for advancement of flexible electronics, optical and acoustic switches, …

The multidisciplinary, multiscale studies will help bridge molecular-to-macroscopic interplay in responsive materials. Please see the press release by Tatum Lyles, here: https://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/uw-madison-chemists-chosen-part-multidisciplinary-university-research-initiative

The award is made to BCI, Inc. and our team will support the work through a subcontract to develop new catalysts and formulations for bulk curing.

We are grateful to the NSF for their generous support and to the amazing staff at UW who helped put this in place. Notably, the grant-writing process was led by Rachel Tritt, Dr. Xuejin Yang, …

This undergraduate academic award was established in 2002 by Eugene Herscher, husband to Patricia Herscher (B.S. in Chemistry from UW-Madison in 1955). Link: https://badgerchemistnews.chem.wisc.edu/celebrating-student-success/#awardwinners

This contribution describes the synthesis, study, and potential applications of anionic poly(cyclopentadienylene vinylene). Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202004098

The second years smashed their thesis background exams! Keep up the great work!

Rachel was a first author on a paper that showcased copolymers made using chain transfer in MF-ROMP! Check out the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000434.

The collaborative projective with Prof. Nick Boechler’s team demonstrates how micro- and macroscale architecture influences mechanochemical activation in thermoplastic and elastomer materials. You can read the paper at https://doi.org/10.1039/C9PY01875A.