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SUMMARY:New Synthetic Tools for Precision Polymers & Sustainable Materi
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LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20260413T160000
UID:2026-04-24-14-42-34@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260424T144234
Description:Seminar abstract:\n\nResearch in the Romero Polymer Lab focuses
  on the development of novel methodologies for precision synthesis and fun
 ctionalization of polymeric materials\, seeking to address longstanding ch
 allenges in stimuli-responsive materials\, optoelectronically active polym
 ers\, and polymer sustainability. Our efforts utilize a variety of synthet
 ic tools to achieve molecular-level control over polymer structure and pro
 perties\, with a particular emphasis on photochemistry\, electrochemistry\
 , and main group chemistry. This seminar will highlight recent advances fr
 om my group\, including our work on Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) polymers a
 s photochemically active and catalytic materials\, electrochemical functio
 nalization of commodity polymers\, and the synthesis and characterization 
 of novel non-fluorocarbon fluoropolymers.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nNathan Romero
  joined the Department of Chemistry at UC San Diego as an Assistant Profes
 sor in 2020. Nate grew up in Grand Rapids\, MI and attended Calvin College
 \, receiving a B.S. in chemistry in 2012. He received a PhD in 2017 from t
 he University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill\, where he studied photoredo
 x catalysis under Prof. Dave Nicewicz as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. N
 ate carried out postdoctoral research as a NIH Fellow in the lab of Prof. 
 Tim Swager at MIT from 2017 to 2020. The Romero Polymer Lab at UCSD merges
  synthetic methodology\, inorganic and main group chemistry\, and polymer 
 science. 4:00 pm
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