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Aaron Burkey (Fed)
NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate
Current Research Interests:
- Synthesis of well-defined telechelic polyolefins and measurement of physical properties
- Polymer recyclability
- Polymer chemistry
Selected Publications:
(1) Wallace, M. A.; Burkey, A. A.; Sita, L. R. Phenyl-Terminated Polyolefins via Living Coordinative Chain Transfer Polymerization with ZnPh2 as a Chain Transfer Agent. ACS Catal. 2021, 11 (16), 10170–10178. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c02038.
(2) Burkey, A. A.; Hillsley, A. V.; Harris, D. T.; Baltzegar, J. R.; Zhang, D. Y.; Sprague, W. W.; Rosales, A. M.; Lynd, N. A. Mechanism of Polymer-Mediated Cryopreservation Using Poly(Methyl Glycidyl Sulfoxide). Biomacromolecules 2020, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00392.
(3) Burkey, A. A.; Riley, C. L.; Wang, L. K.; Hatridge, T. A.; Lynd, N. A. Understanding Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)-Mediated Ice Recrystallization Inhibition through Ice Adsorption Measurement and PH Effects. Biomacromolecules 2018, 19 (1), 248–255. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01502.