Aaron Burkey

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

Selective deuteration along a polyethylene chain: Measuring conformational differences segment by segment

May 6, 2024

Author(s)

Aaron Burkey, Anthony Kotula, Chad R. Snyder, Sara Orski, Kate Beers

To improve the circularity and performance of polyolefin materials, recent innovations have enabled the synthesis of polyolefins with new structural features

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

Author(s)

Mark Wallace, Aaron Burkey, Lawrence Sita

ABSTRACT: Living coordinative chain transfer polymeriza-tion (LCCTP) of α-olefins, including propene, 1-hexene, 1-decene, and 4-methyl-1-pentene, using the CPAM

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Data and Software Publications

Supporting Data for "Selective deuteration along a polyethylene chain: Differentiating conformation segment by segment"

Author(s)

Aaron Burkey, Anthony Kotula, Chad Snyder, Sara Orski, Kathryn Beers

Includes raw data used to generate the figures in the publication "Selective deuteration along a polyethylene chain: Differentiating conformation segment by segment" [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs

Incorporating dynamic bonds into high density polyethylene for upcycled plastic waste

Author(s)

Christopher B. Cooper, McKenzie L. Coughlin, Polette J. Centellas, Aaron A. Burkey, Kalman D. Migler, Jonathan E. Seppala, Edwin P. Chan, Chad R. Snyder, Sara V. Orski

This dataset consists of characterization of telechelic functional polyethylene oligomers, precursors, and resultant step-growth polyethylene with urethane-linkages between segments of different

Aaron Burkey (Fed)

Chemical Engineer

Publications

Selective deuteration along a polyethylene chain: Measuring conformational differences segment by segment

Highly Versatile Strategy for the Production of Telechelic Polyolefins

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

Data and Software Publications

Supporting Data for "Selective deuteration along a polyethylene chain: Differentiating conformation segment by segment"

Incorporating dynamic bonds into high density polyethylene for upcycled plastic waste