Ph.D. (2010) North Carolina State University

Chemistry of Materials/Environment and Energy/Nanoscience/Synthesis and Catalysis

Research in the Kennemur Group focuses on the design and synthesis of functional polymer systems with the goal of creating new materials that address key issues in society. An area of great interest is the ability of macromolecules to autonomously self-assemble into a hierarchy of secondary, tertiary, and even quaternary structures. By tailoring the design at the molecular level, we can investigate the important principles involved in these processes and ultimately tune properties to gain a desired function from the material. Our research is highly interdisciplinary and relies on organic and organometallic chemistry to create the materials, analytical chemistry to characterize their structure, and polymer physics and engineering to probe their function.

Kennemur, J. G.; Yao, L. Hillmyer, M. A.; Bates, F. S. ??Sub-5 nm Domains in Ordered Poly(cyclohexylethylene)-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) Block Polymers for Lithography?? Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 1411-1418.. Kennemur, J. G.; Hillmyer, M. A.; Bates, F. S. ??Rheological Evidence of Composition Fluctuations in an Unentangled Diblock Copolymer Melt near the Order-Disorder Transition?? ACS Macro Lett. 2013, 2, 496-500. Kennemur, J. G.; Hillmyer, M. A.; Bates, F. S. ??Synthesis, Thermodynamics, and Dynamics of Poly(4-tert-butylstyrene-b-methyl methacrylate)?? Macromolecules 2012, 45, 7228-7236. Kennemur, J. G.; Novak, B. M. ??Hierarchical Chirality in Polycarbodiimides?? Isr. J. Chem. 2011, 51, 1041-1051. (Special Issue: Origins, Transfer, and Amplifications of Chirality)

Kennemur, J. G.; Novak, B. M. ??Advances in Polycarbodiimide Chemistry?? Polymer 2011, 52, 1693-1710. (Feature Article)