selected publications

• journal article

  • Amine Induced Retardation of the Radical-Mediated Thiol-Ene Reaction via the Formation of Metastable Disulfide Radical Anions.  Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2912-2919. 2018
  • Efficient Polymer-Polymer Conjugation via Thiol-ene Click Reaction.  Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 2017
  • Synthesis and Assembly of Click-Nucleic-Acid-Containing PEG-PLGA Nanoparticles for DNA Delivery.  Advanced Materials. 2017
  • Biomedical applications of polymers derived by reversible addition - fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT).  Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 141-152. 2015
  • A peptide functionalized poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel for investigating the influence of biochemical and biophysical matrix properties on tumor cell migration..  Biomaterials Science. 1024-1034. 2014
  • A peptide functionalized poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel for investigating the influence of biochemical and biophysical matrix properties on tumor cell migration.  Biomaterials Science. 1024-1034. 2014
  • Photodegradable, Photoadaptable Hydrogels via Radical-Mediated Disulfide Fragmentation Reaction.  Macromolecules. 2444-2450. 2011
  • Introduction to thiol-ene and thiol-yne photopolymerizations.  ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2010
  • Modeling cellular microenvironments using thiol-ene extracellular matrix mimics.  ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2010
  • Reaction Rates and Mechanisms for Radical, Photoinitated Addition of Thiols to Alkynes, and Implications for Thiol-Yne Photopolymerizations and Click Reactions.  Macromolecules. 4113-4119. 2010
  • A synthetic strategy for mimicking the extracellular matrix provides new insight about tumor cell migration.  Integrative Biology: interdisciplinary approaches for molecular and cellular life sciences. 32-40. 2010
  • A Versatile Synthetic Extracellular Matrix Mimic via Thiol-Norbornene Photopolymerization.  Advanced Materials. 5005-+. 2009
  • Characterization of valvular interstitial cell function in three dimensional matrix metalloproteinase degradable PEG hydrogels.  Biomaterials. 6593-6603. 2009
  • Photoinitiated polymerization of PEG-diacrylate with lithium phenyl-2,4,6-trimethylbenzoylphosphinate: polymerization rate and cytocompatibility.  Biomaterials. 6702-6707. 2009
  • Enzyme-Mediated Redox Initiation for Hydrogel Generation and Cellular Encapsulation.  Biomacromolecules. 3114-3121. 2009
  • Thiol-Yne Photopolymerizations: Novel Mechanism, Kinetics, and Step-Growth Formation of Highly Cross-Linked Networks.  Macromolecules. 211-217. 2009
  • Three-dimensional biochemical patterning of click-based composite hydrogels via thiolene photopolymerization.  Biomacromolecules. 1084-1087. 2008
  • A comparison of alternative 60-mer probe designs in an in-situ synthesized oligonucleotide microarray.  BMC Genomics. 2006