Occupation scientist | Name Marek Urban | |
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Books Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Molecules to Nature Mimicking Materials Design | ||
Stimuli-Responsiveness and Self Healing Polymers
Marek W. Urban is an American professor, scientist and chemical engineer who works in the field of polymers, polymer spectroscopy, polymeric coatings, and stimuli-responsive materials.
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He studied chemistry at Marquette University where he received MS degree (1979) and continued at Michigan Technological University where he received his doctorate in chemistry and chemical engineering (1984), followed by postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western Reserve University (1984–86).
He is currently J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His prior appointments included department chair positions at North Dakota State University and University of Southern Mississippi. He also has led and directed the National Science Foundation Research Centers, Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Coatings (1995–2005) and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Films and Coatings. Numerous media including New York Times, Forbes, BBC, National Geographic, Discovery, The Economist, Discovery Channel, New York Times, USA Today, local TV stations, and many others have featured his research group (Urban Research Group) discoveries in stimuli-responsive polymers, including self-healing films, colloidal synthesis, and antimicrobial surfaces.
Selected publications
BOOKS Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Molecules to Nature Mimicking Materials Design. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2016.
Handbook of Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Wiley-VCH, Verlag & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.
Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy of Polymeric Materials; Theory and Practice, American Chemical Society and Oxford University Press, 1996.
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules and Macromolecules on Surfaces, John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
"Dynamic materials: The Chemistry of Self-Healing," Nature Chemistry, 2012, 4, 80-82.
"Stimuli-Responsive Polymers," McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, 2010, 362-365.
"Self-Repairing Oxetane-Substituted Chitosan Polyurethane Networks," Science, 2009, 323(5920), 1458–1460.
"Phage-Bacterium War on Polymeric Surfaces: Can Surface-Anchored Bacteriophages Eliminate Microbial Infections?" Biomacromolecules, 2013, 14(5), 1257-1261.
"Self-Repairable Polyurethane Networks by Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Water," Angewandte Chemie Inter. Ed., 2014, 53(45), 12142-12147.
"One-Step Synthesis of Amphiphilic Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Block Copolymers by Surfactant-Free Heterogeneous Radical Polymerization," ACS Macro Lett., 2015, 4, 1317–1320.
"Instantaneous Directional Growth of Block Copolymer Nanowires During Heterogeneous Radical Polymerization (HRP)," Nano Lett., 2016, 16(4), 2873-2877.