Kailong Jin is currently an assistant professor in chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at Arizona State University, where he began in 2020. Kailong Jin earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering with a Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award from Northwestern University under the direction of Professor John Torkelson. Then, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professors Frank Bates and Christopher Ellison in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. His research broadly seeks to design, synthesize, engineer, and characterize polymeric materials that can help address technological issues in energy, the environment, and sustainability.
Polymer design and synthesis, Polymer processing and engineering, Additive manufacturing (i.e., 3D printing), Fiber manufacturing, Sustainable polymers, Chemical upcycling of waste plastics, Multilayered polymer films, Polymer nanocomposites, Nanoporous polymers (e.g., covalent organic frameworks) for water purification and gas storage, Stimuli-responsive materials, Vitrimers, Dynamic covalent chemistries
H. J. Kim, K. Jin, J. Shim, W. Dean, M. Hillmyer, C. J. Ellison, Sustainable triblock copolymers as tunable and degradable pressure sensitive adhesives, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2020, Submitted.
D. Sheppard, K. Jin, L. Hamachi, W. Dean, D. Fortman, C. J. Ellison, W. Dichtel, Reprocessing post-consumer polyurethane foam using carbamate exchange catalysis and twin-screw extrusion, ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, Online. (Highlighted in a C&EN news entitled “Nudging reaction in reverse repurposes polyurethane foam”) (https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c00083)
K. Nomura, X. Peng, H. Kim, K. Jin, H. J. Kim, A. Bratton, C. Bond, A. Broman, K. M. Miller, and C.J. Ellison, Multiblock copolymers for recycling polyolefin-polyester mixed waste, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 9726-9735. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20242)
K. Jin, S. Eyer, W. Dean, D. Kitto, F. S. Bates, and C. J. Ellison, Bimodally distributed nano- and micro-fiber nonwovens by melt blowing immiscible ternary polymer blends, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2020, 59, 5238-5246. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.9b04887)
A. Banerji, K. Jin, K. Liu, M. Mahanthappa, C. J. Ellison, Crosslinked nonwoven fibers by room temperature cure blowing and in situ photopolymerization, Macromolecules 2019, 52, 6662-6672. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01002)
T. Wei, K. Jin, J. M. Torkelson, Isolating the effect of polymer-grafted nanoparticle interactions with matrix polymer from dispersion on composite property enhancement: The example of polypropylene/halloysite nanocomposites, Polymer 2019, 176, 38-50. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2019.05.038)
K. Jin, A. Banerji, D. Kitto, F. S. Bates, and C. J. Ellison, Mechanically robust and recyclable crosslinked fibers from melt blown anthracene-functionalized commodity polymers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 12863-12870. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b00209)
J. Xu, J. Eagan, S. Kim, S. Pan, B. Lee, K. Klimovica, K. Jin, T. Lin, M. Howard, C. J. Ellison, A. LaPointe, G. W. Coates, and F. S. Bates, Compatibilization of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) with iPP-PE multiblock copolymers, Macromolecules 2018, 51, 8586-8596. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01907)
K. Jin, S. Kim, J. Xu, F. S. Bates, and C. J. Ellison, Melt-blown crosslinked fibers from thermally reversible Diels-Alder polymer networks, ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 1339-1345. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00685)
L. Li, X. Chen, K. Jin, and J. M. Torkelson, Vitrimers designed both to strongly suppress creep and to recover original cross-link density after reprocessing: quantitative theory and experiments, Macromolecules 2018, 51, 5537-5546. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00922)
K. Jin, E. Leitsch, X. Chen, W. H. Heath, and J. M. Torkelson, Segmented thermoplastic polymers synthesized by thiol-ene click chemistry: examples of thiol-norbornene and thiol-maleimide click reactions, Macromolecules 2018, 51, 3620-3631. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00573)
X. Chen, L. Li, K. Jin, and J.M. Torkelson, Reprocessable polyhydroxyurethane networks exhibiting full property recovery and concurrent associative and dissociative dynamic chemistry via transcarbamoylation and reversible cyclic carbonate aminolysis, Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 6349-6355. (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/py/c7py01160a)
K. Jin and J. M. Torkelson, Tg-confinement effects in strongly miscible blends of poly(2,6-dimethyl 1,4-phenylene oxide) and polystyrene: Roles of bulk fragility and chain segregation, Polymer 2017, 11, 85-96. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.04.069)
K. Jin, L. Li, and J. M. Torkelson, Bulk physical aging behavior of crosslinked polystyrene compared to its linear precursor: Effects of cross-linking and aging temperature, Polymer 2017, 115, 197-203. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.03.045)
K. Jin, L. Li, and J. M. Torkelson, Recyclable crosslinked polymer networks via one-step controlled radical polymerization, Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 6746-6750. (Highlighted in a news article entitled “Reinventing the Wheel: Northwestern Researchers Develop Recyclable Rubber”) (https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600871)
K. Jin and J. M. Torkelson, Enhanced Tg-confinement effect in crosslinked polystyrene compared to its linear precursor: role of fragility, Macromolecules 2016, 49, 5092-5103. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01042)
K. Jin, N. Wilmot, W. H. Heath, and J. M. Torkelson, Phase-separated thiol-epoxy-acrylate hybrid networks synthesized by simultaneous thiol-acrylate and thiol-epoxy click reactions, Macromolecules 2016, 49, 4115-4123. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00141)
K. Jin, W. H. Heath, and J. M. Torkelson, Kinetics of multifunctional thiol-epoxy click reactions studied by differential scanning calorimetry: Effects of Catalysis and Functionality, Polymer 2015, 81, 70-78. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2015.10.068)
K. Jin and J. M. Torkelson, Tg and Tg breadth of poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide)/polystyrene miscible polymer blends characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, ellipsometry, and fluorescence spectroscopy, Polymer 2015, 65, 233-242. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2015.04.016)
Patent list:
J. M. Torkelson, K. Jin, and L. Li, Reprocessable crosslinked network polymers with alkoxyamine dynamic covalent bonds, U.S. Patent No. US 10618991, 2020. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10618991B2/en)
L. Li, X. Chen, K. Jin, and J. M. Torkelson, A method to eliminate undesired creep in reprocessable polymer networks and network composites via alkoxyamine dynamic chemistry, U.S. Patent Application No. 62/867,455, 2019.
C. J. Ellison and K. Jin, Urethane exchange catalysts and methods for reprocessing crosslinked polyurethanes foams, U.S. Patent Application No. 62/837,606, 2019.
K. Jin, K. Wang, W. C. Haberkamp, F. S. Bates, and C. J. Ellison, Crosslinked nonwovens produced by melt blowing reversible polymer networks, U.S. Patent Application No. 62/682,549, 2018.
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