Aaron Teator
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Contact Info
1567 Irving Hill Road
LAWRENCE, KS 66045
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Research —
Our research is focused on diversifying the types of structures accessible to us through controlled polymerization and in turn developing new, functional materials. We’re working on developing new polymerizations, new monomers, and new post-functionalization methods. We target applications in a multitude of areas ranging from sustainability, high-performance engineering materials, and biomedicine. Research in the Teator Lab includes components physical organic chemistry, small-molecule synthesis, polymer synthesis, and polymer physics. For more details, visit the Teator Research Lab website.
Selected Publications —
Varner, T. P.; Teator, A. J.; Reddi, Y.; Jacky, P. E.; Cramer, C. J.; Leibfarth, F. A. Mechanistic Insight into the Stereoselective Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 17175. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08254.
Teator, A. J.; Varner, T. P.; Jacky, P. E.; Sheyko, K. A.; Leibfarth, F. A. Polar Thermoplastics with Tunable Physical Properties Enabled by the Stereoselective Copolymerization of Vinyl Ethers. ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8, 1559. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00802.
Teator, A. J. and Leibfarth, F. A. Catalyst-Controlled Stereoselective Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers. Science 2019, 363, 1439. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1703
Teator, A. J.; Shao, H.; Lu, G.; Liu, P.; Bielawski, C. W. A Photoswitchable Olefin Metathesis Catalyst. Organometallics 2017, 36, 490. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00913.
Teator, A. J.;† Lastovickova, D. N.;† Bielawski, C. W. Switchable Polymerization Catalysts. Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 1969. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00426.
Teator, A. J.; Tian, Y.; Chen, M.; Lee, J. K.; Bielawski, C. W. An Isolable, Photoswitchable N-Heterocyclic Carbene: On Demand Reversible Ammonia Activation. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11559. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201506269.
Awards & Honors —
2022 - 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2020 - Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Cottrell Fellowship
2019 - ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Future Faculty Scholar
2019 - UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence