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Overview

Goran Ungar is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China. Their research spans key areas within Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, Biomaterials, and Polymers and Plastics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Ungar has published papers extensively in several notable scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Macromolecules
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nature Communications

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Gradient H-Bonding Binder Enables Stable High-Areal-Capacity Si-Based Anodes in Pouch Cells," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Luminescent Metallacycle-Cored Liquid Crystals Induced by Metal Coordination," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Extraordinary Acceleration of Cogwheel Helical Self-Organization of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides by the Dendron Sequence Encoding Their Tertiary Structure," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Spontaneously chiral cubic liquid crystal: three interpenetrating networks with a twist," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • "Liquid Organic Frameworks: The Single-Network 'Plumber's Nightmare' Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Xiangbing Zeng
  • Feng Liu
  • Yaxin Li
  • Liliana Cseh
  • Yu Cao

Best Publications

  • Controlling polymer shape through the self-assembly of dendritic side-groups

    V. Percec;C.-H. Ahn;G. Ungar;D. J. P. Yeardley

  • Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasicrystals

    Xiangbing Zeng;Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Virgil Percec

  • Interplay of Physical Structure and Photophysics for a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene

    M. Grell;D. D. C. Bradley;G. Ungar;J. Hill

  • Direct Visualization of Individual Cylindrical and Spherical Supramolecular Dendrimers

    S. D. Hudson;H.-T. Jung;H.-T. Jung;V. Percec;V. Percec;W.-D. Cho;W.-D. Cho

  • Fluorophobic Effect Induces the Self-Assembly of Semifluorinated Tapered Monodendrons Containing Crown Ethers into Supramolecular Columnar Dendrimers Which Exhibit a Homeotropic Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystalline Phase

    Virgil Percec;Gary Johansson;Goran Ungar;Jianping Zhou

  • Rational Design of the First Spherical Supramolecular Dendrimers Self-Organized in a Novel Thermotropic Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Phase and the Determination of Their Shape by X-Ray-Analysis

    V. S. K. Balagurusamy;G. Ungar;V. Percec, ,‡ and;G. Johansson

  • Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice

    Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Xiangbing Zeng;Virgil Percec

  • The crystallization of ultralong normal paraffins: the onset of chain folding.

    G. Ungar;J. Stejny;A. Keller;I. Bidd

  • VISUALIZABLE CYLINDRICAL MACROMOLECULES WITH CONTROLLED STIFFNESS FROM BACKBONES CONTAINING LIBRARIES OF SELF-ASSEMBLING DENDRITIC SIDE GROUPS

    V. Percec;C.-H. Ahn;W.-D. Cho;A. M. Jamieson

  • Structure of rotator phases in n-alkanes

    Goran Ungar

  • Rational Design of the First Nonspherical Dendrimer Which Displays Calamitic Nematic and Smectic Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases

    Virgil Percec;Peihwei Chu;Goran Ungar;Jianping Zhou

  • Structural Analysis of Cylindrical and Spherical Supramolecular Dendrimers Quantifies the Concept of Monodendron Shape Control by Generation Number

    V. Percec;W.-D. Cho;P. E. Mosier;G. Ungar

  • Coassembly of a Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystalline Superlattice from Polymer(s) Coated with a Three‐Cylindrical Bundle Supramolecular Dendrimer

    Virgil Percec;Cheol-H. Ahn;Tushar K. Bera;Goran Ungar

  • Frank–Kasper, quasicrystalline and related phases in liquid crystals

    Goran Ungar;Xiangbing Zeng

  • Learning polymer crystallization with the aid of linear, branched and cyclic model compounds.

    Goran Ungar;Xiang-bing Zeng

  • Fluorophobic Effect in the Self-Assembly of Polymers and Model Compounds Containing Tapered Groups into Supramolecular Columns

    G. Johansson;V. Percec;G. Ungar;J. P. Zhou

  • Order in the rotator phase of n-alkanes

    Goran Ungar;Nikola Masic

  • Electro-functional octupolar π-conjugated columnar liquid crystals.

    Takuma Yasuda;Tomohiro Shimizu;Feng Liu;Goran Ungar

  • Predicting the structure of supramolecular dendrimers via the analysis of libraries of AB3 and constitutional isomeric AB2 biphenylpropyl ether self-assembling dendrons.

    Brad M. Rosen;Daniela A. Wilson;Christopher J. Wilson;Mihai Peterca

  • Spherical Supramolecular Minidendrimers Self-Organized in an “Inverse Micellar”-like Thermotropic Body-Centered Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase

    Duncan J. P. Yeardley;Goran Ungar;Virgil Percec;and Marian N. Holerca

  • Self-assembly of taper-shaped monoesters of oligo(ethylene oxide) with 3,4,5-tris(n-dodecan-1-yloxy)benzoic acid and of their polymethacrylates into tubular supramolecular architectures displaying a columnar hexagonal mesophase

    Virgil Percec;James Heck;Dimitris Tomazos;Frederick Falkenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangbing Zeng
Xiangbing Zeng University of Sheffield
Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Marko Prehm
Marko Prehm Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Andrew Keller
Andrew Keller University of Bristol
Mihai Peterca
Mihai Peterca University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Heiney
Paul A. Heiney University of Pennsylvania
Georg H. Mehl
Georg H. Mehl University of Hull
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society

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