Texas A&M University

Contact Info:

David Truong

1313 Research Pkwy

College Station, TX 77845

https://somf.engr.tamu.edu/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_022482

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Dynamic Light Scattering

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

Gel Chromatography

Light Scattering

Mass Spectrometry

Rheology

Size Exclusion Chromatography With Multi-Angle Light Scattering

Small Angle X-rays Scattering

Thermal Analysis

Zeta Potential

Relevant Publications:

1.) Ma T, Fox E, Qi M, Li CH, Sachithani KA, Mohanty K, Tabor DP, Pentzer EB, Lutkenhaus JL (2023 Oct 30). Charge Transfer in Spatially Defined Organic Radical Polymers Chemistry of Materials, 35(21), 9346-9351. . PMCID: 10862473.

2.) Kempel SJ, Hsu TW, Nicholson JL, Michaudel Q (2023 May 31). cis-Selective Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization of α,ω-Dienes Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(23), 12459-12464. . PMCID: 10330887.

3.) Ma T, Li CH, Thakur RM, Tabor DP, Lutkenhaus JL (2023 Apr). The role of the electrolyte in non-conjugated radical polymers for metal-free aqueous energy storage electrodes. Nature materials, 22(4), 495-502. doi: 10.1038/s41563-023-01518-z. PMID: 36973544.

4.) Wu JW, Kulow RW, Redding MJ, Fine AJ, Grayson SM, Michaudel Q (2023 Jan 17). Synthesis of Degradable Polysulfamides via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange Click Polymerization of AB-Type Monomers ACS Polymers Au, 3(3), 259-266. . PMCID: 10273414.

5.) Sarmah A, Sarikaya S, Thiem J, Upama ST, Khalfaoui AN, Dasari SS, Arole K, Hawkins SA, Naraghi M, Vashisth A, Green MJ (2022 Nov 8). Recycle and Reuse of Continuous Carbon Fibers from Thermoset Composites Using Joule Heating. ChemSusChem, 15(21), e202200989. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202200989. PMID: 36040841.

6.) Javed M, Corazao T, Saed MO, Ambulo CP, Li Y, Kessler MR, Ware TH (2022 Aug 3). Programmable Shape Change in Semicrystalline Liquid Crystal Elastomers. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 14(30), 35087-35096. doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c07533. PMID: 35866446.

Description:

The new Soft Matter Facility (SoMF) is the user facility focused on characterization of multifunctional soft materials. The facility includes four instrumentation suites based on the soft-matter-centered research areas which will be unified by the general theme of characterization of hierarchically structured multi-component, multifunctional soft materials: Molecular Characterization, Processing & Mechanics, Thin Films & Interfacial Analysis, and Nanostructure Characterization.