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Clement Appiah

Mechanical Engineering

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Research Summary

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The researcher has made significant strides in advancing the development of novel soft, active, and light-responsive materials, with a focus on self-assembling polymers, photoresponsive and light-responsive hydrogels, ionic liquid chemistry, block copolymers, and systems involving calcium carbonate crystallization. Their work contributes to the broader field of soft and active matter technologies, addressing challenges in material science through innovative synthesis and characterization approaches across multiple domains.

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Living Materials Herald a New Era in Soft Robotics(2019)
Controlling the LCST-Phase Transition in Azobenzene-Functionalized Poly (N-Isopropylacrlyamide) Hydrogels by Light(2023)
Crystallization behavior of precision polymers containing azobenzene defects(2017)
Mechanochromic Microfibers Stabilized by Polymer Blending(2020)
Synthesis and characterization of new photoswitchable azobenzene-containing poly(ε-caprolactones)(2016)
Synthesis of photoresponsive main-chain oligomers with azobenzene moieties via ADMET oligomerization and their micellization properties(2017)
One-pot synthesis and self-assembly of supramolecular dendritic polymers(2015)
Designing melt flow of poly(isobutylene)-based ionic liquids(2013)
Hierarchically Mesostructured Polyisobutylene‐Based Ionic Liquids(2016)
A Co-Polymerizable Linker for the Covalent Attachment of Fibronectin Makes pHEMA Hydrogels Cell-Adhesive(2022)
Crystallization in segregated supramolecular pseudoblock copolymers(2015)
Expectations vs. reality in nacre-like composites: dominating role of particle packing and polymer confinement in mechanical performance(2024)
Synthesis and Thermal Investigations of Eleven-Membered Ring Systems Containing One of the Heavier Group 14 Element Atoms Si, Ge, and Sn(2020)
CCDC 2019993: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination(2020)
CCDC 2019994: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination(2020)

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