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Tomasz Kowalewski is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, specializing primarily in Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering. Their research contributions span several subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The core focus of their work involves advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, with notable attention to fuel cells and related materials, membrane-based ion separation techniques, photopolymerization techniques and applications, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers, and polymer surface interaction studies.

Tomasz Kowalewski has contributed to several scientific publications, frequently appearing in prominent journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Macromolecules
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • Polymer

Some of their recent papers include:

  • High-throughput Synthesis and Screening of Iridium(III) Photocatalysts for the Fast and Chemoselective Dehalogenation of Aryl Bromides, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • STEM Gels by Controlled Radical Polymerization, 2020, Trends in Chemistry
  • Cu-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in the Presence of Liquid Metal Micro/Nanodroplets, 2021, Macromolecules
  • Multiblock Copolymer Anion-Exchange Membranes Derived from Vinyl Addition Polynorbornenes, 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Exploring the Effects of Bulky Cations Tethered to Semicrystalline Polymers: The Case of Tetraaminophosphoniums with Ring-Opened Polynorbornenes, 2020, Macromolecules

Kowalewski collaborates frequently with multiple coauthors, including:

  • Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (13 joint works)
  • Kevin J. T. Noonan (11 joint works)
  • Mingkang Sun (7 joint works)
  • Jamie C. Gaitor (6 joint works)
  • Megan Treichel (5 joint works)

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of Polymer Brushes Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Jeffrey Pyun;Jeffrey Pyun;Tomasz Kowalewski;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Nanocages Derived from Shell Cross-Linked Micelle Templates

    Haiyong Huang;Edward E. Remsen;Tomasz Kowalewski;Karen L. Wooley

  • Water-Soluble Knedel-like Structures: The Preparation of Shell-Cross-Linked Small Particles

    K. Bruce Thurmond;and Tomasz Kowalewski;Karen L. Wooley

  • ABCA1 is required for normal central nervous system ApoE levels and for lipidation of astrocyte-secreted apoE.

    Suzanne E. Wahrle;Hong Jiang;Maia Parsadanian;Justin Legleiter

  • Nanostructure Dependence of Field-Effect Mobility in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Film Field Effect Transistors

    Rui Zhang;Bo Li;Mihaela Corina Iovu;Malika Jeffries-El

  • Self-Healing Polymer Films Based on Thiol-Disulfide Exchange Reactions and Self-Healing Kinetics Measured Using Atomic Force Microscopy

    Jeong Ae Yoon;Jun Kamada;Jun Kamada;Kaloian Koynov;Jake Mohin

  • In situ atomic force microscopy study of Alzheimer’s β-amyloid peptide on different substrates: New insights into mechanism of β-sheet formation

    Tomasz Kowalewski;David M. Holtzman

  • Tuning the electrical conductivity and self-assembly of regioregular polythiophene by block copolymerization: nanowire morphologies in new di- and triblock copolymers.

    Jinsong Liu;Elena Sheina;Tomasz Kowalewski;Richard D. McCullough

  • Light‐Induced Reversible Formation of Polymeric Micelles

    Hyung‐il Lee;Wei Wu;Jung Kwon Oh;Laura Mueller

  • Shell Cross-Linked Knedels: A Synthetic Study of the Factors Affecting the Dimensions and Properties of Amphiphilic Core-Shell Nanospheres

    K. Bruce Thurmond;and Tomasz Kowalewski;Karen L. Wooley

  • Synthesis and characterization of organic/inorganic hybrid nanoparticles: Kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization and morphology of hybrid nanoparticle ultrathin films

    Jeffrey Pyun;Shijun Jia;Tomasz Kowalewski;Gary D. Patterson

  • Interaction of DNA-dependent protein kinase with DNA and with Ku: biochemical and atomic-force microscopy studies.

    Mariana Yaneva;Tomasz Kowalewski;Michael R. Lieber;Michael R. Lieber

  • Electrochemically active nitrogen-enriched nanocarbons with well-defined morphology synthesized by pyrolysis of self-assembled block copolymer.

    Mingjiang Zhong;Eun Kyung Kim;John P McGann;Sang-Eun Chun

  • Novel Thiophene‐Thiazolothiazole Copolymers for Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

    Itaru Osaka;Geneviève Sauve;Rui Zhang;Tomasz Kowalewski

  • High-Lamellar Ordering and Amorphous-Like π-Network in Short-Chain Thiazolothiazole−Thiophene Copolymers Lead to High Mobilities

    Itaru Osaka;Rui Zhang;Geneviève Sauvé;Detlef-M. Smilgies

  • Conducting Regioregular Polythiophene Block Copolymer Nanofibrils Synthesized by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization (RAFT) and Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization (NMP)

    Mihaela C. Iovu;C. Rockford Craley;Malika Jeffries-El;Ashley B. Krankowski

  • Nanostructured carbon arrays from block copolymers of polyacrylonitrile.

    Tomasz Kowalewski;Nicolay V Tsarevsky;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Hydrogel-Coated Glassy Nanospheres: A Novel Method for the Synthesis of Shell Cross-Linked Knedels

    Haiyong Huang;Tomasz Kowalewski;Edward E. Remsen;and Rolf Gertzmann

  • Investigation of the radial deformability of individual carbon nanotubes under controlled indentation force

    Min-Feng Yu;Tomasz Kowalewski;Rodney S. Ruoff

  • Synthesis of mesoporous carbons using ordered and disordered mesoporous silica templates and polyacrylonitrile as carbon precursor

    Michal Kruk;Bruno Dufour;Ewa B Celer;Tomasz Kowalewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Carnegie Mellon University
Richard D. McCullough
Richard D. McCullough Harvard University
Chuanbing Tang
Chuanbing Tang University of South Carolina
Jeffrey Pyun
Jeffrey Pyun University of Arizona
Karen L. Wooley
Karen L. Wooley Texas A&M University
Wei Wu
Wei Wu Wuhan University
Michal Kruk
Michal Kruk City University of New York
Jacob Schaefer
Jacob Schaefer Washington University in St. Louis
Itaru Osaka
Itaru Osaka Hiroshima University
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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