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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
The multi-disciplinary research programs in the Fang Group will focus on the bottom-up synthesis and processing of novel organic polymer materials -- namely, ladder and coplanar polymers, as well as microporous polymer networks -- for the applications on electronics and energy conversion/storage. Our thrust will be to gain profound understanding on the structure-property relationship of these materials at both the molecular and the macroscopic levels by employing the toolboxes of synthetic chemistry and device engineering. With this knowledge, we aim to establish a series of synthetically feasible, high performing, processable organic carbon-based material systems for field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, solar cells, supercapacitors, and batteries, and to be at the forefront in the enhancement of their efficiencies.

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0303 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0303 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0307 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0303 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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0307 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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Northwestern University - (Evanston, Illinois, United States)

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship (EDGES) Fellow

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Extraordinary Redox Activities in Ladder-Type Conjugated Molecules Enabled by B  N Coordination-Promoted Delocalization and Hyperconjugation.

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Fullerene-Tailored Graphene Oxide Interlayer Spacing for Energy-Efficient Water Desalination

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Annulation Reactions for Conjugated Ladder-Type Oligomers

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Molecular Coplanarity and Self-Assembly Promoted by Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds.

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Poly-Lipoic Ester-Based Coacervates for the Efficient Removal of Organic Pollutants from Water and Increased Point-of-Use Versatility

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Sequencing of allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1) provides a resource for fiber improvement.

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Electrical vapour sensing with macrocyclic molecular receptors

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A solid-state switch containing an electrochemically switchable bistable poly[n]rotaxane

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A side-chain engineering approach to solvent-resistant semiconducting polymer thin films

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Integrating Photoactive Ligands into Crystalline Ultrathin 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets for Efficient Photoinduced Energy Transfer.

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Inverse emulsion-crosslinked cyclodextrin polymer nanoparticles for selective adsorption and chemiresistive sensing of BTEX

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Rigid Ladder-Type Porous Polymer Networks for Entropically Favorable Gas Adsorption

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Molecular-mechanical switching at the nanoparticle-solvent interface: practice and theory.

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Syntheses and dynamics of donor-acceptor [2]catenanes in water.

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Cholic-acid-based fluorescent sensor for dicarboxylates and acidic amino acids in aqueous solutions.

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Side-Chain Engineering of Isoindigo-Containing Conjugated Polymers Using Polystyrene for High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

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Molecular mechanism of rigidity- and planarity-promoted, state-dependent doping of conjugated ladder-type molecules

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Photopolymerized superhydrophobic hybrid coating enabled by dual-purpose tetrapodal ZnO for liquid/liquid separation.

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Mingling Electronic Chemical Sensors with Supramolecular Host-Guest Chemistry

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Synthesis of isotopesubstituted conjugated ladder polymers

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Synthesis and Photocyclization of Conjugated Diselenophene Pyrrole-2,5-dione Based Monomers for Optoelectronics

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Polyamine detergents tailored for native mass spectrometry studies of membrane proteins.

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Assembly and Chiral Memory Effects of Dynamic Macroscopic Supramolecular Helices.

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Synthesis, characterization and crystal structures of novel fluorinated di(thiazolyl)benzene derivatives

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Dual stimulus switching of a [2]catenane in water.

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Metal nanoparticles functionalized with molecular and supramolecular switches.

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Conjugated ladder polymers: Advances from syntheses to applications

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Synthesis and Solution Processing of a Rigid Polymer Enabled by Active Manipulation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds.

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Pauli Paramagnetism of Stable Analogues of Pernigraniline Salt Featuring Ladder-Type Constitution.

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TEMPO Containing Radical Polymonothiocarbonate Polymers with Regio and StereoRegularities: Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrical Conductivity Studies

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Few-layer, large-area, 2D covalent organic framework semiconductor thin films.

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Topological Design of Highly Anisotropic Aligned Hole Transporting Molecular Bottlebrushes for Solution-Processed OLEDs.

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Cost-effective synthesis and solution processing of porous polymer networks through methanesulfonic acid-mediated aldol triple condensation

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Bis-Bipyridinium Gemini Surfactant-Based Supramolecular Helical Fibers and Solid State Thermochromism.

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n-Type Electron-Accepting Materials for Organic Solar Cells (OSC)

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Robust chain aggregation of low-entropy rigid ladder polymers in solution

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Low Band Gap Coplanar Conjugated Molecules Featuring Dynamic Intramolecular Lewis Acid-Base Coordination.

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Construction of stable polymeric vesicles based on azobenzene and beta-cyclodextrin grafted poly(glycerol methacrylate)s for potential applications in colon-specific drug delivery.

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A catenated strut in a catenated metal-organic framework.

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Robust Jumping Actuator with a Shrimp‐Shell Architecture

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Synthesis and Solution Processing of a Hydrogen-Bonded Ladder Polymer

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Feasible fabrication and textile application of polymer composites featuring dual optical thermoresponses

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Design, synthesis and characterization of fused bithiazole- and dithiophene-based low bandgap thienylenevinylene copolymers

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Quinoidal conjugated polymers with open-shell character

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Synthesis of low band gap polymers based on pyrrolo[3,2-d:4,5-d ']bisthiazole (PBTz) and thienylenevinylene (TV) for organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs)

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Aromatic porous polymer network membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration under extreme conditions

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Studies on synthesis and anion recognition of a novel amide receptor bearing two anthracene substituents

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Exciton Relaxation in Highly Rigid Conjugated Polymers: Correlating Radiative Dynamics with Structural Heterogeneity and Wavefunction Delocalization

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Confined organization of fullerene units along high polymer chains

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Mapping the electrocatalytic activity of MoS2 across its amorphous to crystalline transition

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Direct imaging of rotating molecules anchored on graphene.

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Molecular active plasmonics: controlling plasmon resonances with molecular machines

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SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

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Discovery of Potent Charge-Reducing Molecules for Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Studies.

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Chalcogen Bridged Thieno- and Selenopheno[2,3-d:5,4-d ']bisthiazole and Their Diketopyrrolopyrrole Based Low-Bandgap Copolymers

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Cover Feature: Assembly and Chiral Memory Effects of Dynamic Macroscopic Supramolecular Helices (Chem. Eur. J. 62/2018)

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Fluorescent anion sensor derived from cholic acid: the use of flexible side chain.

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Highly porous Ti4O7 reactive electrochemical water filtration membranes fabricated via electrospinning/electrospraying

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Tunable Thermochromism of Multifunctional Charge-Transfer-Based Supramolecular Materials Assembled in Water

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N-type electron-accepting materials for organic solar cells (OSC)

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Augmented polyhydrazone formation in water by template-assisted polymerization using dual-purpose supramolecular templates

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Acid-base actuation of [c2]daisy chains.

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ResonanceAssisted SelfDoping in Robust OpenShell LadderType Oligoaniline Analogues

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Locking the Coplanar Conformation of -Conjugated Molecules and Macromolecules Using Dynamic Noncovalent Bonds.

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Active molecular plasmonics: Controlling plasmon resonances with molecular switches

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Exceptional thermoelectric properties of flexible organic-inorganic hybrids with monodispersed and periodic nanophase.

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Emulating synaptic behavior in surface-functionalized MoS2 through modulation of interfacial charge transfer via external stimuli.

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Electron-Deficient Polycyclic -System Fused with Multiple BN Coordinate Bonds.

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Solution-Processable Porous Nanoparticles of a Conjugated Ladder Polymer Network

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Harnessing mechanical energy from artificial muscle-like materials

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Thiazole fused S,N-heteroacene step-ladder polymeric semiconductors for organic transistors.

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Measurement of the ground-state distributions in bistable mechanically interlocked molecules using slow scan rate cyclic voltammetry.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Scalable and selective dispersion of semiconducting arc-discharged carbon nanotubes by dithiafulvalene/thiophene copolymers for thin film transistors.

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An in Situ Sulfidation Approach for the Integration of MoS2 Nanosheets on Carbon Fiber Paper and the Modulation of Its Electrocatalytic Activity by Interfacing with nC(60)

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Synthesis and exceptional operational durability of polyaniline-inspired conductive ladder polymers.

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TEMPO Containing Radical Polymonothiocarbonate Polymers with Regio‐ and Stereo‐Regularities: Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrical Conductivity Studies

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High-Performance Thermoresponsive Dual-Output Dye System for Smart Textile Application

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Solution-processable porous graphitic carbon from bottom-up synthesis and low-temperature graphitization.

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Highly Efficient Water Splitting Catalyst Composed of N,P-Doped Porous Carbon Decorated with Surface P-Enriched Ni2P Nanoparticles.

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Palladium bis-pincer complexes with controlled rigidity and inter-metal distance

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A mechanical actuator driven electrochemically by artificial molecular muscles.

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Controlling the Conductivity of Cyclo[8]pyrrole Polyiodide Cocrystals via Minor Substituent Group Changes.

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Effect of Solution Shearing Method on Packing and Disorder of Organic Semiconductor Polymers

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Effect of solvent quality and sidechain architecture on conjugated polymer chain conformation in solution.

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Covalent and Noncovalent Approaches to Rigid Coplanar -Conjugated Molecules and Macromolecules.

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Active molecular plasmonics: controlling plasmon resonances with molecular switches.

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Integrated materials design of organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors.

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Scalable Synthesis and Multi-Electron Transfer of Aniline/Fluorene Copolymer for Solution-Processable Battery Cathodes.

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A NANOPLASMONIC SWITCH BASED ON MOLECULAR MACHINES

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Versatile Thermochromic Supramolecular Materials Based on Competing Charge Transfer Interactions

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On the thermodynamic and kinetic investigations of a [c2]daisy chain polymer

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Assembly of polygonal nanoparticle clusters directed by reversible noncovalent bonding interactions.

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Methanesulfonic acid mediated solvent free synthesis of conjugated porous polymer networks

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Thermodynamic synthesis of solution processable ladder polymers.

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Isolation by crystallization of translational isomers of a bistable donor-acceptor [2]catenane.

# publications[].publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Solution-printable fullerene/TiS2 organic/inorganic hybrids for high-performance flexible n-type thermoelectrics

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How rigid are conjugated non-ladder and ladder polymers?

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Mesoporous silica nanobeans dual-functionalized with AIEgens and leaning pillar[6]arene-based supramolecular switches for imaging and stimuli-responsive drug release.

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Versatile and efficient photopolymerization approach to zinc oxide-composed dual functional membranes for sustainable water treatment

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Oxygen-vacancy-rich phenanthroline/TiO2 nanocomposites: An integrated adsorption, detection and photocatalytic material for complex pollutants remediation

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Directed Self-assembly and Alignment of Conjugated Polymers for High Performance Plastic Electronics

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Synthesis and molecular engineering of novel conjugated polymers with zero torsional defect for organic solar cells

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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CAREER: Conformational Control of pi-Conjugated Polymeric Materials Through Dynamic Bonds

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Environmental Monitoring of Hydrocarbons using a Selective, Sensitive and Trainable Electronic BTEX Sensing Platform Integrating Nanoporous Polymer Receptors and Carbon Nanotubes

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Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Rigidity Quantification of Ladder Polymers with Controlled Structural Defects

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Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Molecular Engineering of 2D Catalysts for Hydrodesulfurization: Upgradation of Fossil Fuels

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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High Performance Multifunctional Smart Windows Using Novel Thermochromic Materials for Energy Conservation

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Texas A&M University; Chemistry; 3255 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Yuan, Tianyu (2018-08). Harnessing Non-Covalent Interactions for Functional Organic Materials. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lee, Jongbok (2018-08). Thermodynamic Synthesis of Ladder-Type Functional Organic Materials. Doctoral Dissertation.