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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Virgil Percec is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, where their research broadly spans the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scientific contributions focus on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials, and Materials Chemistry.

The main topics that characterize Percec's work include:

  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Percec has been frequently published in several journals, with the highest number of publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Other frequent publication venues include Giant, Biomacromolecules, Chem, and the Israel Journal of Chemistry.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Percec are:

  • Qi Xiao
  • Dipankar Sahoo
  • Devendra S. Maurya
  • Mihai Peterca
  • Elena N. Atochina-Vasserman

Selected recent publications demonstrate a focus on dendrimer-based delivery systems and helical self-organization in macromolecules. These include:

  • "One-Component Multifunctional Sequence-Defined Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimer Delivery Systems for mRNA" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Targeted Delivery of mRNA with One-Component Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "The Unexpected Importance of the Primary Structure of the Hydrophobic Part of One-Component Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers in Targeted mRNA Delivery Activity" (2022), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Helical Self-Organizations and Emerging Functions in Architectures, Biological and Synthetic Macromolecules" (2021), Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • "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

Virgil Percec is recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2020 and has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2004.

Best Publications

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings Involving Carbon-Oxygen Bonds

    Brad M. Rosen;Kyle W. Quasdorf;Daniella A. Wilson;Na Zhang

  • Dendron-Mediated Self-Assembly, Disassembly, and Self-Organization of Complex Systems

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

  • Ultrafast synthesis of ultrahigh molar mass polymers by metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization of acrylates, methacrylates, and vinyl chloride mediated by SET at 25 degrees C.

    Virgil Percec;Tamaz Guliashvili;Janine S. Ladislaw;Anna Finne Wistrand

  • Living radical polymerization of styrene initiated by arenesulfonyl chlorides and CuI(bpy)nCl

    Virgil Percec;Bogdan Barboiu

  • Self-organization of supramolecular helical dendrimers into complex electronic materials

    V. Percec;M. Glodde;T. K. Bera;Y. Miura

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

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

  • Single-Electron Transfer and Single-Electron Transfer Degenerative Chain Transfer Living Radical Polymerization

    Brad M. Rosen;Virgil Percec

  • Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasicrystals

    Xiangbing Zeng;Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Virgil Percec

  • Self-Assembly of Janus Dendrimers into Uniform Dendrimersomes and Other Complex Architectures

    Virgil Percec;Daniela A. Wilson;Pawaret Leowanawat;Christopher J. Wilson

  • Self-assembly of amphiphilic dendritic dipeptides into helical pores

    Virgil Percec;Andrés E. Dulcey;Venkatachalapathy S. K. Balagurusamy;Yoshiko Miura

  • 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

  • Aqueous Room Temperature Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride

    Virgil Percec;Anatoliy V. Popov;Ernesto Ramirez-Castillo;Michael Monteiro

  • Metal-Catalyzed “Living” Radical Polymerization of Styrene Initiated with Arenesulfonyl Chlorides. From Heterogeneous to Homogeneous Catalysis

    Virgil Percec;Bogdan Barboiu;Andreas Neumann;Joan C. Ronda

  • Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice

    Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Xiangbing Zeng;Virgil Percec

  • Polymerization of acetylenic derivatives. XXX. Isomers of polyphenylacetylene

    C. I. Simionescu;V. Percec;Svetlana Dumitrescu

  • Single electron transfer in radical ion and radical-mediated organic, materials and polymer synthesis.

    Na Zhang;Shampa R. Samanta;Brad M. Rosen;Virgil Percec

  • Arenesulfonyl Halides: A Universal Class of Functional Initiators for Metal-Catalyzed “Living” Radical Polymerization of Styrene(s), Methacrylates, and Acrylates†

    V. Percec;B. Barboiu;H.-J. Kim

  • Aryl Mesylates in Metal Catalyzed Homocoupling and Cross-Coupling Reactions. 2. Suzuki-Type Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Arenesulfonates and Aryl Mesylates with Arylboronic Acids

    Virgil Percec;Jin-Young Bae;Dale H. Hill

  • Copper(II)/Tertiary Amine Synergy in Photoinduced Living Radical Polymerization: Accelerated Synthesis of ω-Functional and α,ω-Heterofunctional Poly(acrylates)

    Athina Anastasaki;Vasiliki Nikolaou;Qiang Zhang;James A. Burns

  • Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Dendritic Dipeptides into Helical Pores

    Virgil Percec;Paul A. Heiney;D A. Hu;S N. Magonov

Frequent Co-Authors

Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Paul A. Heiney
Paul A. Heiney University of Pennsylvania
Mihai Peterca
Mihai Peterca University of Pennsylvania
Brad M. Rosen
Brad M. Rosen University of Pennsylvania
Daniela A. Wilson
Daniela A. Wilson Radboud University
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Martin Möller
Martin Möller RWTH Aachen University
Christopher J.L. Wilson
Christopher J.L. Wilson Monash University
Steven D. Hudson
Steven D. Hudson National Institute of Standards and Technology
Almeria Natansohn
Almeria Natansohn Queen's University

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