Ph.D.: Colorado State University, 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher: California Institute of Technology

Physical Organic Renewable Energy Organic

Our research interests are in the fields of synthetic polymer chemistry and materials science. We are developing organic and organometallic catalysts to enable the synthesis of new polymeric materials. Selected Research Areas

Piunova, V. A.; Miyake, G. M.; Daeffler, C. S.; Weitekamp, R. A.; Grubbs, R. H. “Highly-Ordered Dielectric Mirrors via the Self-Assembly of Dendronized Block Copolymers” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 15609-15616. Miyake, G. M.; Piunova, V. A.; Weitekamp, R. A.; Grubbs, R. H. “Precisely Tunable Photonic Crystals From the Rapid Self-Assembly of Brush Block Copolymer Blends” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2012, 51, 11246-11248. Miyake, G. M.; Weitekamp, R. A.; Piunova, V. A.; Grubbs, R. H. “Synthesis of Isocyanate-Based Brush Block Copolymers and Their Rapid Self-Assembly to Infrared-Reflecting Photonic Crystals” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 14249-14254. Sveinbj?rnsson, B. R.; Weitekamp, R. A.; Miyake, G. M.; Xia, Y.; Atwater, H. A.; Grubbs, R. H. “Rapid Self-Assembly of Brush Block Copolymers to Photonic Crystals” P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012, 109, 14332-14336. Miyake, G. M.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Synthesis of Highly Syndiotactic Polymers by Discrete Catalysts or Initiators” Polym. Chem. 2011, 2, 2462-2480. Miyake, G. M.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Cinchona Alkaloids as Stereoselective Organocatalysts for the Partial Kinetic Resolution Polymerization of rac-Lactide” Macromolecules 2011, 44, 4116-4124. Zhang, Y.; Miyake, G. M.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Alane-Based Classical and Frustrated Lewis Pairs in Polymer Synthesis: Rapid Polymerization of MMA and Naturally Renewable Methylene Butyrolactones to High Molecular Weight Polymers” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2010, 49, 10158-10162. Miyake, G. M.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Living Polymerization of Naturally Renewable Butyrolactone-Based Vinylidene Monomers by Ambiphilic Silicon Propagators” Macromolecules 2010, 43, 4902-4908. Miyake, G. M.; Caporaso, L.; Cavallo, L.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Coordination-Addition Polymerization and Kinetic Resolution of Methacrylamides by Chiral Metallocene Catalysts” Macromolecules 2009, 42, 1462-1471. Miyake, G. M.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Metallocene-Mediated Asymmetric Coordination Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers to Optically Active, Stereoregular Polymers” Macromolecules 2008, 41, 3405-3416. Miyake, G. M.; Mariott, W. R.; Chen, E. Y.-X. “Asymmetric Coordination Polymerization of Acrylamides by Enantiomeric Metallocenium Ester Enolate Catalysts” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6724-6725.