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Harth Laboratory
University of Houston
Department of Chemistry
406 STL Building
Labs: 415, 412, 414, 408
phone: (713) 743-6707
harth@uh.edu
Recent News
December 19, 2018: Our “tour de force” MILRad group effort paper was published today. Congratulations everyone, it is a great piece of work!December 12, 2018: Laken’s nanoparticle – drug delivery paper published today in Macromolecules!
November 09, 2018: Laken passed her Independent Research Proposal requirement (IRP) and gave a talk at the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting in Little Rock, AK. Congratulations, well done!
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Metal-Organic Insertion/Light Initiated Radical (MILRad) Polymerization
/0 Comments/in Research /by adminThermoplastic elastomers are the most important and widely used polymeric materials to date. We are exploring novel synthetic pathways to afford a more practical and easier access to functionalized and specialized thermoplastics. This research effort involves the investigation of the photoactivation of metal organic catalysts with a variety of monomers also in combination with other known polymerization pathways.
Hydrogel Biomaterials
/0 Comments/in Research /by adminBiocompatible materials with tailored functions, biological responses and mechanical properties are investigated. The project involves the investigation of novel polymeric building blocks that are combined with self-assembled materials.
Nanosponge Technology and Nanoparticle Expansion
/0 Comments/in Research /by adminNanoparticles are important building blocks towards the development of nanomedical approaches to treat cardiovascular disease and to target areas of inflammation to release suitable therapeutics. Our long standing effort in this area has led us to develop the second generation of nanosponge materials in a more effective synthetic pathway.
Photoactivation of crosslinking units in nanonetworks allows for the incorporation of monomers into existing nanoparticle systems to incorporate linear co- and block polymers. One particle is only necessary to enable the production of a diverse set of particles with desired functionalities and dimensions.