Nanoscale Polymerization and Materials
Mathematical modeling of polymer particles with a pomegranate-like internal structure via micro-dispersive polymerization in a geometrically confied reaction space (C.V. Luciani, K.Y.Choi), Macromol. Theory Simul. 2013, DOI:10.1002/mats.201300128
Spherical pseudo-inverse opal silica with pomegranate-like polymer particles as templates (K.Y. Choi, C.V. Luciani, L. Emdadi, S.Y. Lee, I.H. Baick, J.S. Lim), Macromol. Mater. Eng. 2012, 297, 1021-1027.
Fabrication and characterization of titania inverse opals using supercritical carbon dioxide (H.M. Yu, J.S. Lim, K.Y. Choi), J. Supercritical Fluids 2012, 67, 71-75.
Stability of polystyrene opals in supercritical carbon dioxide and synthesis of silica inverse opals (H.M. Yu, A.R. Kim, J.H. Moon, J.S. Lim, K.Y. Choi), Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2011, 32, 2178-2182.
Transitions of morphological patterns of crystallizing polycarbonates in thin films (Y.Ye, B.H. Kim, J. Seog, K.Y. Choi), J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2012, 124, 560-567.
Kinetics of styrene polymerization to syndiotactic polystyrene over metallocene catalyst on flat surface, silica nanotube reactors and porous silica particles (S.Y. Lee, S.K. Kim, T.M. Nguyen, J.S. Chung, S.B. Lee, K.Y. Choi), Macromolecules 2011, 44, 1385-1392.
Silica nanotube reactors for catalytic polymerization of styrene and olefins (J.J. Han, S.Y. Lee, S.B. Lee, K.Y. Choi), Macromol. Symp. 2010, 289, 25-32.
Ultrahigh molecular weight syndiotactic polystyrene nanofibrils in silica nanotube reactors (K.Y. Choi, J.J. Han, B. He, S.B. Lee), J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 3920-3926.
Transition Metal and Metallocene Catalyzed Polymerization
Metallocene catalyzed ethylene polymerization with specially designed catalyst supports and reaction
systems (S. Lee, S.K. Kim, S.B. Lee, K.Y. Choi), Macromol. Symp. 3013, 333, 256-265.
Polymerization of ethylene over rac-Et(1-indenyl)2ZrCl2/MAO catalyst supported on pseudo-inverse opal silica particles (S.Y. Lee, K.Y. Choi), Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, 9742-9749.
Polycondensation
Ultra-high molecular weight nonlinear polycarbonates synthesized in micro-layers (I.H. Baick, Y. Ye, C.V. Luciani, Y.G. Ahn, K.H. Song, K.Y. Choi), Ind. Eng. Chem. Res, 52, 17419-17431 (2013).
Kinetics of reversible oligomerization of L-lactic acid with SnCl2.2H2O/p-TSA catalyst (I.H. Baick, C.V. Luciani, S.Y. Park, T.H. Lim, K.Y. Choi), Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, 16617-16627.
Estimation of initial conditions of a prepolymer for a solid-state step-growth polymerization process (Y. Ye, K.Y. Choi), Macromol. React. Eng. 2010, 4, 613-620.
Preparation of micron-sized spherulitic bisphenol A polycarbonate particles in thin films (Y. Ye, K.Y. Choi), Macromol. Mater. Eng. 2009, 294, 847-854.
Reduction of bisphenol A in polycarbonates ina two-stage step-growth polymerization process (Y. Ye, K.Y. Choi), Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2009, 48, 4274-4282.
Optimizing polymer reactivities for the solid-state polycondensation of AA-BB type monomers (Y.Ye, K.Y. Choi), Polymer 2008, 49, 2817-2824.
Dynamic modeling of a moving packed bed reactor for the solid-state polymerization of bisphenol A polycarbonate (Y. Ye, K.Y. Choi), Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2008, 47, 3687-3699.
Heterogeneous Free Radical Polymerization
