About
Biography
While conducting undergraduate research with M. Mio and a Snyder summer research fellowship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the direction of J. Moore. He earned his PhD. in Materials Chemistry under the direction of Professors R. M. Laine and T. Goodson III on silsesquioxane-based materials for energy/photonic applications at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He then went on to a postdoctoral research position in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan under the direction of T. F. Scott, looking at sequence defined peptoid oligomers and their self-assembly. Joseph is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. His current work focuses on using hybrid(silsesquioxane and siloxane) based materials for the development and fundamental chemical understanding of photo-active architectures in the areas of switches, triggers, separations, sensors, self-healing, and environmental remediation. This research is currently funded by the NSF, National Park Service, and Johnson and Johnson Vision Care Inc.
Organic photochemicals combined with silicon-based materials such as silicones and silsesquioxanesgive hybrid materials with properties not available in either category on its own. Higher thermal and oxidative stability is achieved from the addition of silicon to organics and access to the large pool offunctional groups and reactivities in organic systems lacking in silicon based chemistries. Our research builds on fluoride catalyzed silicon bond rearrangements and light driven dynamic covalent chemistries to develop new materials with uses from health care to space exploration. Material Interests Include:
- Polymer Photochemistry Physics
- Hybrid Polymers/Oligomers
- Silicon Containing Materials
- Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
- Self Healing Hybrid Materials
- Molecular Separations
- High Surface Area Hybrids
- 3D Printing of Siloxanes
- Sequenced Polymers
