研究领域
Designing and synthesizing exotic small and giant molecules for unusual properties, Associate Professor Yan Xia works at the interface of chemistry and materials science. His research combines catalysis, organic and polymer chemistry, and a range of advanced characterizations to create, control, and study novel (macro)molecular structures and organic materials with tailored conformations, nanostructures, properties, and functions. These new soft materials have interesting and unusual properties/functions for applications in energy-efficient molecular separations, sustainable plastics, electronics, and therapeutics.
Research in the Xia Group combines vigorous function-driven syntheses, rational molecular design, and in-depth understanding of (macro)molecular reactivity, property, and function. Powerful synthetic methods are the enabling force behind their development of novel organic materials. They have developed various types of chemistry to generate diverse molecular ladder materials with high microporosity, antiaromaticity, or responsive behaviors; polymers with controlled microstructures and degradation; dynamic polymer networks and hydrogels.
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A versatile approach for the synthesis of degradable polymers via controlled ring-opening metathesis copolymerization. Nature chemistry Feist, J. D., Lee, D. C., Xia, Y. 2021
Predictably Engineering the Viscoelastic Behavior of Dynamic Hydrogels via Correlation with Molecular Parameters. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Lou, J., Friedowitz, S., Will, K., Qin, J., Xia, Y. 2021: e2104460
Understanding the Mechanochemistry of Ladder-Type Cyclobutane Mechanophores by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society Horst, M., Yang, J., Meisner, J., Kouznetsova, T. B., Martinez, T. J., Craig, S. L., Xia, Y.2021
Bicyclohexene-peri-naphthalenes: Scalable Synthesis, Diverse Functionalization, Efficient Polymerization, and Facile Mechanoactivation of Their Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society Yang, J., Horst, M., Werby, S. H., Cegelski, L., Burns, N. Z., Xia, Y. 2020; 142 (34): 14619–26
Enol Ethers Are Effective Monomers for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: Synthesis of Degradable and Depolymerizable Poly(2,3-dihydrofuran). Journal of the American Chemical Society Feist, J. D., Xia, Y. 2020
The cascade unzipping of ladderane reveals dynamic effects in mechanochemistry. Nature chemistry Chen, Z., Zhu, X., Yang, J., Mercer, J. A., Burns, N. Z., Martinez, T. J., Xia, Y. 2020
Precise Placement of Single Monomer Units in Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization CHEM Elling, B. R., Su, J. K., Feist, J. D., Xia, Y. 2019; 5 (10): 2691–2701
Dynamic Hyaluronan Hydrogels with Temporally Modulated High Injectability and Stability Using a Biocompatible Catalyst. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Lou, J., Liu, F., Lindsay, C. D., Chaudhuri, O., Heilshorn, S. C., Xia, Y. 2018; 30 (22): e1705215
Mechanochemical unzipping of insulating polyladderene to semiconducting polyacetylene Science Chen, Z., Mercer, J. A., Zhu, X., Romaniuk, J. A., Pfattner, R., Cegelski, L., Martinez, T. J., Burns, N. Z., Xia, Y. 2017; 357 (6350): 475-479
Regioselective Synthesis of [3]Naphthylenes and Tuning of Their Antiaromaticity. Journal of the American Chemical Society Jin, Z. n., Teo, Y. C., Teat, S. J., Xia, Y. n. 2017; 139 (44): 15933–39
Efficient Synthesis of Rigid Ladder Polymers via Palladium Catalyzed Annulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society Liu, S., Jin, Z., Teo, Y. C., Xia, Y. 2014; 136 (50): 17434-17437
Comparative experimental and computational study of synthetic and natural bottlebrush polyelectrolyte solutions. The Journal of chemical physics Horkay, F., Chremos, A., Douglas, J. F., Jones, R., Lou, J., Xia, Y. 2021; 155 (7): 074901
Enhancing Mechanical and Combustion Performance of Boron/Polymer Composites via Boron Particle Functionalization. ACS applied materials & interfaces Jiang, Y., Dincer Yilmaz, N. E., Barker, K. P., Baek, J., Xia, Y., Zheng, X. 2021
Mechanochemical generation of acid-degradable poly(enol ether)s CHEMICAL SCIENCE Yang, J., Xia, Y. 2021; 12 (12): 4389–94
Engineered Matrices Enable the Culture of Human Patient-Derived Intestinal Organoids ADVANCED SCIENCE Hunt, D. R., Klett, K. C., Mascharak, S., Wang, H. Y., Gong, D., Lou, J., Li, X., Cai, P. C., Suhar, R. A., Co, J. Y., LeSavage, B. L., Foster, A. A., Guan, Y., Amieva, M. R., Peltz, G., Xia, Y., Kuo, C. J., Heilshorn, S. C.2021
Polymerization of Cyclopropenes: Taming the Strain for the Synthesis of Controlled and Sequence-Regulated Polymers. Accounts of chemical research Elling, B. R., Su, J. K., Xia, Y. 2020
Mechanochemical synthesis of an elusive fluorinated polyacetylene. Nature chemistry Boswell, B. R., Mansson, C. M., Cox, J. M., Jin, Z., Romaniuk, J. A., Lindquist, K. P., Cegelski, L., Xia, Y., Lopez, S. A., Burns, N. Z.2020
Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 1,1-Disubstituted 1-Methylcyclopropenes MACROMOLECULES Su, J. K., Lee, S., Elling, B. R., Xia, Y. 2020; 53 (14): 5833–38
Catalytic Arene (oxa)Norbornene Annulation (CANAL) TRENDS IN CHEMISTRY Leibham, A. M., Xia, Y. 2020; 2 (7): 680–81
Systematic investigation of synthetic polyelectrolyte bottlebrush solutions by neutron and dynamic light scattering, osmometry, and molecular dynamics simulation. The Journal of chemical physics Horkay, F., Chremos, A., Douglas, J. F., L Jones, R., Lou, J., Xia, Y. 2020; 152 (19): 194904