Faculty
FLORIDA STATE / PEOPLE / FACULTY
Dr. Justin G. Kennemur, Associate Professor
Professional Preparation/Appointments
B.S. Radford University (2002)
Ph.D. North Carolina State University (2010)
Postdoc, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (2011–2014)
Contact Information
| jkennemur@fsu.edu | ||
| Office | 2005 CSL | 850.644.3875 |
| Lab | 2301 CSL | |
Programs of Research
Materials, Organic
Research Specialties
Environment and Energy, Nanoscience, Synthesis and Catalysis
Research Interest
Our team currently has three research thrusts globally aimed at designing new polymeric systems towards current societal needs. These include: 1) Advanced elastomeric and super-soft materials with enhanced recyclability and applications in adhesion, lubrication, impact dampening, and potential replacement for articular cartilage. 2) Sustainable plastics comprised of chiral biomass-based feedstock and their stereochemical effects on material properties. 3) Functional diblock and multiblock copolymers geared towards autonomous nanostructured assemblies and use in templates for nanotechnology, ion conduction, and selective membranes for transport and filtration. Our research is highly interdisciplinary and relies on organic synthesis, polymer synthesis, organometallic catalysis, analysis of macromolecular structure, and polymer physics / engineering principles to probe material function.
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Publications
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| Guillory, G. A.; Marxsen, S. F.; Alamo, R. G.; Kennemur, J. G. Precise Isotactic or Atactic Pendant Alcohols on a Polyethylene Backbone at Every Fifth Carbon: Synthesis, Crystallization, and Thermal Properties. Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 6841. |
| Nguyen, N.; Blatt, Michael P.; Kim, K.; Hallinan, D. T.; Kennemur J. G. Investigating the Miscibility and Lithium Ion Transport in Blends of Poly(ethylene oxide) with a Polyanion Containing Precisely-spaced Delocalized Charges. Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 4309. |
| Yarolimek M. R.; Bookbinder, H. R.; Coia, B. M. Kennemur J. G. Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of δ-Pinene: Well-Defined Polyolefins from Pine Sap. ACS Macro Lett. 2021, 10, 760. |
| Neary, W. J.; Isais, T. A.; Kennemur, J. G. Depolymerization of Bottlebrush Polypentenamers and their Macromolecular Metamorphosis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 14220 – 14229. |
| Neary, W. J.; Kennemur, J. G. Polypentenamer Renaissance: Challenges and Opportunities. ACS Macro Lett., 2019, 8, 46-56. |