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Aaron Burkey (Fed)

Chemical Engineer

Polymers and Complex Fluids Group

aaron.burkey@nist.gov

(301) 975-4769

Staff Employment

Chemical Engineer (NIST Materials Science and Engineering Division, 2022 – present)

NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate (NIST Materials Science and Engineering Division, 2020 – 2022)

Visiting Research Scientist (University of Maryland, 2020 – 2021)

Staff Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

BS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio University

Current Research Interests:

Synthesis of well-defined polyolefins with controlled chain ends and architecture
Segment-selective deuteration of polyethylene
Measurement challenges in plastics circularity

Publications

Highly Versatile Strategy for the Production of Telechelic Polyolefins

March 3, 2022

Author(s)

Aaron Burkey, Danyon Fischbach, Kathryn L. Beers, Charlotte Wentz, Lawrence Sita

A general and versatile synthetic strategy for producing practical quantities of a wide range of phenyl-groupterminated hetero- and homotelechelic

Phenyl-Terminated Polyolefins via Living Coordinative Chain Transfer Polymerization with ZnPh2 as a Chain Transfer Agent

October 25, 2021