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Overview

Brett A. Helms is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States and specializes in research spanning the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's main research topics include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced battery technologies research, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization.

Brett A. Helms has contributed to the academic community through publications in various venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Science Advances
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brett A. Helms include:

  • Toward polymer upcycling-adding value and tackling circularity, 2021, Science
  • Universal chemomechanical design rules for solid-ion conductors to prevent dendrite formation in lithium metal batteries, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Diversity-oriented synthesis of polymer membranes with ion solvation cages, 2021, Nature
  • Functionalized Phosphonium Cations Enable Zinc Metal Reversibility in Aqueous Electrolytes, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer, 2021, Science Advances

Brett A. Helms collaborates frequently with a set of researchers including Thomas P. Russell, Michael A. Baird, Jérémy Demarteau, Paul D. Ashby, and Simon J. Teat. These co-authors have contributed extensively alongside Helms in advancing topics related to materials and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Dendronized linear polymers via "click chemistry".

    Brett Helms;Justin L Mynar;Craig J Hawker;Jean M J Fréchet

  • Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds

    Peter R. Christensen;Angelique M. Scheuermann;Angelique M. Scheuermann;Kathryn E. Loeffler;Brett A. Helms

  • Toward polymer upcycling-adding value and tackling circularity.

    LaShanda T. J. Korley;Thomas H. Epps;Brett A. Helms;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Tunable infrared absorption and visible transparency of colloidal aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals.

    Raffaella Buonsanti;Anna Llordes;Shaul Aloni;Brett A. Helms

  • The Dendrimer Effect in Homogeneous Catalysis

    Brett Helms;Jean M. J. Fréchet;Jean M. J. Fréchet

  • Engineering of a synthetic electron conduit in living cells

    Heather M. Jensen;Aaron E. Albers;Konstantin R. Malley;Yuri Y. Londer

  • Reconfigurable ferromagnetic liquid droplets.

    Xubo Liu;Xubo Liu;Noah Kent;Noah Kent;Alejandro Ceballos;Robert Streubel

  • One‐Pot Reaction Cascades Using Star Polymers with Core‐Confined Catalysts

    Brett Helms;Steven J. Guillaudeu;Yu Xie;Meredith McMurdo

  • Exceptionally Mild Reactive Stripping of Native Ligands from Nanocrystal Surfaces by Using Meerwein’s Salt

    Evelyn L. Rosen;Raffaella Buonsanti;Anna Llordes;April M. Sawvel

  • Nanocomposite Architecture for Rapid, Spectrally-Selective Electrochromic Modulation of Solar Transmittance

    Jongwook Kim;Gary K. Ong;Yang Wang;Gabriel LeBlanc

  • Dendrimers at work

    Brett Helms;E. W. Meijer

  • Three-Dimensional Growth of Li2S in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Promoted by a Redox Mediator.

    Laura C. H. Gerber;Peter D. Frischmann;Frank Y. Fan;Sean E. Doris

  • Correction: Corrigendum: H+-type and OH−-type biological protonic semiconductors and complementary devices

    Yingxin Deng;Erik Josberger;Jungho Jin;Anita Fadavi Roudsari

  • Poly(oxime-ester) Vitrimers with Catalyst-Free Bond Exchange.

    Changfei He;Shaowei Shi;Dong Wang;Brett A Helms

  • The effect of macromolecular architecture in nanomaterials: a comparison of site isolation in porphyrin core dendrimers and their isomeric linear analogues.

    Eva M. Harth;Stefan Hecht;Brett Helms;Eva E. Malmstrom

  • A versatile new monomer family: functionalized 4-vinyl-1,2,3-triazoles via click chemistry.

    Raymond J. Thibault;Kenichi Takizawa;Peter Lowenheilm;Brett Helms

  • Dual-Emitting Quantum Dot/Quantum Rod-Based Nanothermometers with Enhanced Response and Sensitivity in Live Cells

    Aaron E. Albers;Emory M. Chan;Patrick M. McBride;Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin

  • Enhanced thermal transport at covalently functionalized carbon nanotube array interfaces

    Sumanjeet Kaur;Nachiket Raravikar;Brett A. Helms;Ravi Prasher

  • Polysulfide-Blocking Microporous Polymer Membrane Tailored for Hybrid Li-Sulfur Flow Batteries

    Changyi Li;Changyi Li;Ashleigh L. Ward;Sean E. Doris;Sean E. Doris;Tod A. Pascal

  • Universal chemomechanical design rules for solid-ion conductors to prevent dendrite formation in lithium metal batteries.

    Chengyin Fu;Victor Venturi;Jinsoo Kim;Jinsoo Kim;Zeeshan Ahmad

  • Sub-10 nm nanofabrication via nanoimprint directed self-assembly of block copolymers.

    Sang Min Park;Xiaogan Liang;Bruce D. Harteneck;Teresa E. Pick

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Delia J. Milliron
Delia J. Milliron The University of Texas at Austin
Raffaella Buonsanti
Raffaella Buonsanti École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
David Prendergast
David Prendergast Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey R. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kristin A. Persson
Kristin A. Persson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Phillip L. Geissler
Phillip L. Geissler University of California, Berkeley
Craig J. Hawker
Craig J. Hawker University of California, Santa Barbara
Ting Xu
Ting Xu University of California, Berkeley

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