Lifecycle Control of Polymer Materials
by Jeffrey Moore, Ph.D.
Carle Illinois College of Medicine - Innovation Grand Rounds
Friday, May 15
noon – 1:00 p.m. Hear from Dr. Jeffrey Moore
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Reflection & Dialogue
Zoom Call-in: go.illinois.edu/innovationgrandrounds
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Abstract:
In this talk I will discuss the molecular design of organic structural materials that mimic living systems’ abilities to protect, report, heal and even regenerate themselves in response to damage, with the goal of increasing lifetime, safety and sustainability of many manufactured items. I will emphasize recent developments in frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization (FROMP) to manufacture composites with minimal energy consumption. The talk will conclude by introducing the ideas of vascularization and morphogenic manufacturing. Vascularization of structural materials opens new functional capabilities not common in conventional materials. Morphogenic manufacturing aims to achieve symmetry breaking in neat polymerization reactions through a coupled reaction-diffuse process; the long-term vision is self-patterned form and function in synthetic materials.
Jeffrey Moore received his B.S. in chemistry (1984) and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering with Samuel Stupp (1989), both from the University of Illinois. He then went to Caltech as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow working with Robert Grubbs. In 1990, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 1993 returned to the University of Illinois, where he is currently the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, Professor of Chemistry, as well as a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. Jeff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society (ACS); he has received the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and has been recognized as a “Faculty Ranked Excellent by their Students.” For 14 years he served as an associate editor for the Journal of American Chemical Society. In 2014, he was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and in 2016 was chosen as the recipient for the ACS Edward Leete Award in Organic Chemistry. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Chemistry Division 2018 Stephanie L. Kwolek Award. He has published over 400 articles covering topics from technology in the classroom to self-healing polymers, mechanoresponsive materials and shape-persistent macrocycles. He is currently serving as the Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois.
