个人简介
Education
Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering, August 2009
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Advisors: Professors C. Daniel Frisbie and Marc. A. Hillmyer
Thesis: “Polythiophene-Containing Block Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaic Applications”
B. S. in Chemical Engineering, May 2004
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Undergraduate Advisors: Professors Richard C. Alkire and Paul J. A. Kenis
Professional Positions
Robert and Sally Weist Associate Professor October 2016 – Present School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Associate Professor of Chemistry, by Courtesy August 2016 – Present Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Director of the Professional M.S. Program School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University July 2016 – Present
Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor Anfiro, Incorporated February 2014 – Present
Associate Professor August 2016 – October 2016 School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Assistant Professor School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University August 2011 – August 2016
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, by Courtesy Department of Chemistry, Purdue University October 2013 – August 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mentor: Professor Rachel A. Segalman Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory September 2009 – July 2011
Selected Honors and Awards
Featured in the “Young Talents in Polymer Science” Issue of Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2016
Purdue College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award 2016
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award 2016
Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame 2015
NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Invited Participant 2015
APS Division of Polymer Physics-UK Polymer Physics Group Lectureship 2015
IMPACT Faculty Fellow at Purdue University 2015
Purdue University Teaching for Tomorrow Award 2014
NAE Frontiers of Engineering Invited Participant 2013
Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust Award 2012
DARPA Young Faculty Award 2012
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award 2012
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (UMN) Outstanding T.A. Award 2009
Outstanding Instructor (Top 10% of all instructors) at the UIUC Campus 2003, 2004
研究领域
Functional homopolymers and block polymers have attracted increasing attention as applications for these materials have begun to emerge in fields ranging from bioengineering to advanced energy systems. In particular, optoelectronically-active polymers have emerged as their own class of materials in recent years due to their promise of offering inexpensive, flexible, and lightweight alternatives to applications previously dominated by inorganic materials. Importantly, semiconducting polymers have optical and electronic properties that may be tuned by using well-designed chemical synthesis to control precisely the chemical constituents, the distribution of functionality along the polymer backbone, the molecular weight, and the molecular weight distributions of the macromolecules.
In the Polymers for Optoelectronic and Widespread Energy Research (POWER) Laboratory, we examine how control of macromolecular design affects the all-important nanoscale structure of these materials. In turn, this provides a handle by which to improve the performance of a variety of thin film, flexible organic electronic devices. Currently, we are examining five specific research thrusts that will utilize the advantages of functional homopolymers and block polymers for the fabrication of next generation organic electronic and advanced separations devices for enhanced energy, water, and homeland security applications.
1.The design and utilization of functional radical polymers for transparent, conducting polymer thin films.
2.The design of novel polymers, polymer-based nanoparticles, and inorganic nanoparticles for thermoelectric devices and catalytic applications.
3.The fabrication of well-ordered, nanostructured organic non-volatile memory elements from nanostructured templates.
4.The synthesis and microstructural characterization of functional triblock polymers for enhanced desalination separations.
5.The fabrication of microstructured and nanostructured conducting polymers for advanced threat detection and homeland security applications.
Because we have the ability to change material properties by altering the molecular architecture, an iterative approach to system engineering is used. This allows for the direct correlation of structure-property relationships in five polymer-based projects which, in turn, will drive molecular design for the development of devices with high performance.
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“Nanoporous Block Polymer Thin Films Functionalized with Bio-Inspired Ligands for the Efficient Capture of Heavy Metal Ions from Water,” J.L. Weidman, R.A. Mulvenna, B.W. Boudouris, W.A. Phillip, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9, 19152-19160 (2017).
“Design of a Three-State Switchable Chromogenic Radical-based Moiety and Its Translation to Molecular Logic Systems,” S. Mukherjee, B.W. Boudouris, Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2, 159-164 (2017).
"Nanomanufacturing of High-Performance Hollow Fiber Nanofiltration Membranes by Coating Uniform Films from Block Polymer Solutions,"; Y. Zhang, R.A. Mulvenna, B.W. Boudouris, W.A. Phillip, J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 3358-3370 (2017).
"Unusually Stable Hysteresis in the pH-Response of Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brushes Confined within Nanoporous Block Polymer Thin Films," J. L. Weidman, R. A. Mulvenna, B. W. Boudouris, W. A. Phillip, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 7030-7039 (2016)
"Impact of the Addition of Redox-Active Salts on the Charge Transport Ability of Radical Polymer Thin Films," A. G. Baradwaj, S. H. Wong, J. S. Laster, A. J. Wingate, M. E. Hay, B. W. Boudouris, Macromolecules, 49, 4784-4791 (2016)
"Nanoscale Mapping of Dielectric Properties of Nanomaterials over Wide Frequency Bandwidths using Small Cantilevers," M. J. Cadena, S. H. Sung, B. W. Boudouris, R. Reifenberger, A. Raman, ACS Nano, 10, 4062-4071 (2016)
"Nanostructured Membranes from Triblock Polymer Precursors as High Capacity Copper Adsorbents," J. L. Weidman, R. A. Mulvenna, B. W. Boudouris, W. A. Phillip, Langmuir, 31, 1113-11123 (2015)
"Collection-limited Theory Interprets the Extra-ordinary Response of Single Semiconductor Organic Solar Cells," B. Ray, A. G. Baradwaj, M. R. Khan, B. W. Boudouris, M. A. Alam, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, 11193-11198 (2015)
"Tuning the Thermoelectric Properties of a Conducting Polymer through Blending with Open-shell Molecular Dopants," E. P. Tomlinson, M. J. Willmore, X. Zhu, S. W. A. Hilsmier, B. W. Boudouris, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 7, 18195-18200 (2015)
"Nanostructural Impact on the Macroscopic Device Performance of Polymer-based Ordered Ferroelectric Devices," S. H. Sung, B. W. Boudouris, ACS Macro Lett., 4, 293-297 (2015)