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Overview

Marek W. Urban is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and chemistry with a specific concentration on polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, and biomedical engineering. The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding and development of polymer composites and self-healing materials.

Their work covers several main fields of study including:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering
  • Chemistry

Within these fields, Marek W. Urban's subfields of study involve:

  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Catalysis

The scientist's research also centers on topics such as:

  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Marek W. Urban has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Jiahui Liu
  • Siyang Wang
  • Samruddhi Gaikwad
  • Qianhui Liu
  • Lei Li

The scientist's publications appear in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to such venues as:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Macromolecules
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Reviews Materials

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Marek W. Urban include:

  • Self-healing polymers, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Shape memory effects in self-healing polymers, 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • Entropy and interfacial energy driven self-healable polymers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Water accelerated self-healing of hydrophobic copolymers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Recent Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Commodity Polymers, 2021, Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Best Publications

  • Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

    Martien A Cohen Stuart;Wilhelm T S Huck;Jan Genzer;Marcus Müller

  • Self-healing polymeric materials

    Ying Yang;Marek W. Urban

  • Self-healing polymers

    Siyang Wang;Marek W. Urban

  • Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers

    Fang Liu;Marek W. Urban

  • Self-Repairing Oxetane-Substituted Chitosan Polyurethane Networks

    Biswajit Ghosh;Marek W. Urban

  • Chemical and physical aspects of self-healing materials

    Ying Yang;Xiaochu Ding;Marek W. Urban

  • Key-and-lock commodity self-healing copolymers

    Marek W. Urban;Dmitriy Davydovich;Ying Yang;Tugba Demir

  • Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules and Macromolecules on Surfaces

    Marek W. Urban

  • Modification of Gold Surfaces With Water-Soluble (Co)polymers Prepared Via Aqueous Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization

    Brent S. Sumerlin;Andrew B. Lowe;Paul A. Stroud;Ping Zhang

  • Shape memory effects in self-healing polymers

    Chris C. Hornat;Marek W. Urban

  • Self-Healing of Polymers via Supramolecular Chemistry

    Ying Yang;Marek W. Urban

  • Handbook of Stimuli-Responsive Materials

    Marek W. Urban

  • Redox Responsive Behavior of Thiol/Disulfide-Functionalized Star Polymers Synthesized via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Jun Kamada;Jun Kamada;Kaloian Koynov;Cathrin Corten;Azhar Juhari

  • Repairing Polymers Using Oscillating Magnetic Field

    Cathrin C. Corten;Marek W. Urban

  • Stratification, stimuli-responsiveness, self-healing, and signaling in polymer networks

    Marek W. Urban

  • Leaf-Inspired Self-Healing Polymers

    Ying Yang;Dmitriy Davydovich;Chris C. Hornat;Xiaolin Liu

  • Covalent Bonding of Functional Coatings on Conductive Materials: the Electrochemical Approach

    Michaël Cécius;Christine Jérôme

  • Quantitative Predictions of Shape-Memory Effects in Polymers.

    Chris C. Hornat;Ying Yang;Marek W. Urban

  • Surface and interfacial FTIR spectroscopic studies of latexes. I, Surfactant-copolymer interactions

    Kevin W. Evanson;Marek W. Urban

  • Stimuli-responsive polymer nano-science: Shape anisotropy, responsiveness, applications

    Chunliang Lu;Marek W. Urban

  • SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL FTIR SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF LATEXES. II, SURFACTANT-COPOLYMER COMPATIBILITY AND MOBILITY OF SURFACTANTS

    Kevin W. Evanson;Timothy A. Thorstenson;Marek W. Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack L. Koenig
Jack L. Koenig Case Western Reserve University
Kalpana S. Katti
Kalpana S. Katti North Dakota State University
Igor Luzinov
Igor Luzinov Clemson University
Lon J. Mathias
Lon J. Mathias University of Southern Mississippi
Zhanhua Wang
Zhanhua Wang Sichuan University
Mitchell A. Winnik
Mitchell A. Winnik University of Toronto
Karen L. Wooley
Karen L. Wooley Texas A&M University
Jan Genzer
Jan Genzer North Carolina State University
Brent S. Sumerlin
Brent S. Sumerlin University of Florida
Vladimir V. Tsukruk
Vladimir V. Tsukruk Georgia Institute of Technology

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