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Publications

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  • Rashed, M. R.; Sims, C. B.; Mahbub, S.; Hu, N., Greene, A. N.; Furgal, J. C.* Revitalizing Photo-activated R-Alkoxysilanes Containing 2-Nitrobenzyl Protecting Groups as Stable Precursors for Photo-driven Polymerizations, 2024, (Accepted) to ACS Omega, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c04837.

  • Sims, C.B., Chandler, E.T., Espitia Armenta, H., Hu, N-H., Furgal, J.C. Effects of Functionalization on Photo-Actuatable Q-Cage Silica Network Loading and Unloading Efficiency, 2024, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, (Accepted), Preprint: Chemrxiv- DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-7gp9m.

  • Postema, R.M.; Sims, C.B.; Fyfe, M.J.; Tan, X.; Wildschutte, H.K.; Furgal, J.C. Analysis of Mammalian Adherent Cells and E. Coli Interactions with Hybrid Organo-Silane Coatings; A Rapid Approach to Testing Biocompatibility of Coatings, Coatings, 2024, 14, 849. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings14070849.

  • Sims, C. B.*; Furgal, J. C.* Overview of the challenges and current solutions in organic and hybrid coatings for historical monuments and architecture, Polymer International, 2024, Invited Mini Review, 73, 591-602. https://doi.org/10.1002/pi.6626.

2024
2022

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  • Hu, N.-H.; Sims, C. B.; Schrand, T. V; Haver, K. M.; Armenta, H. E.; Furgal, J. C. Formation of Nanostructured Silicas through the Fluoride Catalysed Self-Polymerization of Q-Type Functional Silica Cages. Chem. Commun.2022. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC02672D.

  • Sims, C. B.; Lenora, C. U.; Furgal, J. C. Hybrid Tri-Cure Organo-Silicon Coatings for Monument Preservation. Coatings 2022, 12 (8), 1098. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12081098.

  • Rupasinghe, B.; Furgal, J. C. Degradation of Silicone‐based Materials as a Driving Force for Recyclability. Polym. Int.2022, 71 (5), 521–531. https://doi.org/10.1002/pi.6340.

2021

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  • ​Mahbub, S.; Saha, S.; Ramakrishna, G.; Furgal, J. C. Beads on a Chain Fluorescent Oligomeric Materials: Interactions of Conjugated Organic Cross-Linkers with Silsesquioxane Cages. J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125 (41), 11457–11472. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05282.

  • Mahbub, S.; Furgal, J. C. "Synthesis and Steady State Photophysical Property Analysis of Beads on a Chain (BoC) Silsesquioxane Oligomers Containing Arene and Heteroarene Cross-linkers," Silicon, 2021, 13, 4223-4235, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-021-01179-0

  • Rupasinghe, B.; Furgal, J. C. "Full Circle Recycling of Polysiloxanes via Room Temperature Fluoride Catalyzed Depolymerization to Repolymerizable Cyclics." ACS Appl Polym Mater,  2021, 3, 1828-1839: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c01406

  • Hartmann-Thompson, C.; Furgal, J.C. Silicon-Based Hybrid Materials: Today, Tomorrow
    and the Future, Editorial, Silicon, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-021-01038-y

  • Guan, J.; Sun, Z.; Ansari, R.; Liu, Y.; Endo, A.; Unno, M.; Ouali, A.; Mahbub, S.; Furgal, J. C.; Yodsin, N.; Laine, R. M. "Conjugated Copolymers That Shouldn’t Be." Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 2021, 60 (20), 11115–11119. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202014932.

  • Hu, N-H; Furgal, J. C. "Photoreversible Loading and Unloading of Q–Silsesquioxane Dynamic Network Sponges," Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202010114

2020

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  • Lenora, C. U.; Hu, N-H.; Furgal, J. C. "Thermally Stable Fluorogenic Zn(II) Sensor Based on a Bis(benzimidazole)pyridine-Linked Phenyl-Silsesquioxane Polymer," ACS Omega, 5, 33017, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c04366

  • Hu, N-H.; Lenora, C. U.; May, T. A.; Hershberger, N. C.; Furgal, J. C. "In Situ Formed Methyl-co-(bis-R) silsesquioxane based Polymer Networks with Solvent Controlled Pore Size Distributions and High Surface Areas," Mater. Chem. Front. 2020, 4, 851-861,  https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00748B.

  • Hu, N-H.; Furgal, J.C "R-Silsesquioxane Based Network Polymers by Fluoride Catalyzed Synthesis: An investigation of Cross-linker Structure and its Influence on Porosity," Materials, 2020, 13, 1849, doi:10.3390/ma13081849.

  • Guan, J.; Arias, J. J. R.; Tomobe, K.; Ansari, R.; Marques, M. de F. V.; Rebane, A.; Mahbub, S.; Furgal, J. C.; Yodsin, N.; Jungsuttiwong, S.; et al. "Unconventional Conjugation via VinylMeSi(O−) 2 Siloxane Bridges May Imbue Semiconducting Properties in [Vinyl(Me)SiO(PhSiO 1.5 ) 8 OSi(Me)Vinyl-Ar] Double-Decker Copolymers." ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2020, 2 (9), 3894–3907. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c00591.

2019

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  • Furgal, J. C.; Lenora, C. U. “Green Routes to Silicon Based Materials and Their Environmental Implications,” In Green Chemistry in Government and Industry; Benvenuto, M. A.; Plaumann, H. Eds.; De Grutyer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110597783

  • Furgal, J. C.; Lenora, C. U. “Green Routes to Silicon Based Materials and Their Environmental Implications,” Physical Chemistry Reviews, 2019, 5,  https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2019-0024

  • Furgal, J. C.; Leguizemon, S.; van Dijke, J.; Scott, T. F. “Beta-Peptoid Building Blocks for Next Generation Sequence Defined Polymers” European Polymer Journal, 2019, 118, 306-311, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2019.06.008.

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  • Furgal, J. C. "Polymer Chemistry Course for Small Colleges and Universities," J. Col. Sci. Teaching, 2018, 48, 30-35, Link.

2018
Previous Publications (JCF)

  • Furgal, J. C.; Yamane, H.; Odykirk, T. R.; Yi, E.; Chujo, Y.; Laine, R. M. "High Surface Area, Thermally Stable, Hydrophobic, Microporous, Rigid Gels Generated at Ambient from MeSi(OEt)3/ (EtO)3SiCH2CH2Si(OEt)3 Mixtures by F -Catalyzed Hydrolysis," Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 23, 274-280, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704941. 

  • Furgal, J. C.; Dunn, M.; Wei, T.; Scott, T. F. “Emerging Applications of Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Nanotechnology.” Dynamic Covalent Chemistry (DCC): Principles, Reactions, and Applications, Ed. Zheng, W. 2017.

  • Wei, T.; Furgal, J. C.; Scott, T. F. “In Situ Deprotection and Dynamic Covalent Assembly Using a Dual Role Catalyst”, Chem. Comm, 2017, 53, 3874-3877, DOI: 10.1039/C7CC01028A.

  • Zavada, S.; Furgal, J. C.; Wood, N.; Scott, T. F. “Oxygen-mediated Polymerization Initiated by Oltipraz-derived Thiones,” Journal of Polymer Science Part A, 2017, 55, 1373-1382, DOI: 10.1002/pola.2850.

  • Wei, T.; Furgal, J. C.; Jung, J-H.; Scott, T. F. “Registry Mechanism of Dynamic Covalent Molecular Ladders”, Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8, 520-527, Featured as Issue Cover. DOI: 10.1039/C6PY01951.

  • Furgal, J. C.; Laine, R. M. “Nucleophilic Attack of Phenyllithium at Tetrahedral Silicon in Alkoxysilanes. An Alternate Mechanism,” Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan. 2016, 89, 705-725, DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20160039.

  • Furgal, J. C.; Goodson III, T.; Laine, R. M. “D5h [PhSiO1.5]10 Synthesis via F- Catalyzed Rearrangement of [PhSiO1.5]n. An Experimental/Computational Analysis of Likely Reaction Pathways,” Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 1025-1039, DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04182a.

  • Laine, R. M.; Furgal, J. C.; Doan, P. H.; Pan, D. Popova, V. “Escaping Carbothermal Reduction: Distilling Silica from Biogenic Silica Sources,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1065-1069, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201506838.

  • Scott, T. S.; Furgal, J. C.; Kloxin, C. “Expanding the Alternating Propagation-Chain Transfer (APT)-based Polymerization Toolkit: The Iodo-Ene Reaction,” ACS Macro Lett. 2015, 4, 1404-1409, DOI. 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00640

  • Bahrami, M.; Furgal, J. C.; Hashemi, H.; Ehsani, M.; Jahani, Y.; Goodson III, T.; Kieffer, J.; Laine, R. M. “Synthesis and characterization of nano-building blocks [o-RStilbeneSiO1.5]10,12  (R = Me-, MeO-, NBoc- and CN. Unexpected photophysical properties arising from apparent asymmetric cage functionalization as supported by modeling studies,” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2015, 119, 15846-15858, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02678.

  • Laine, R. M.; Furgal, J. C.; Popova, V.; Yi, E. “Synthesis of Alkoxysilanes directly/indirectly from high surface area silica sources without first producing silicon metal and their use for making fumed silica.” Patent Application 2015 US2016/0304540 A1.

  • Dougherty, C.; Furgal, J. C.; van Dongen-Sohmer, M.; Goodson III, T.; Manono, J; DiMaggio, S.; Banaszak-Holl, M. “Systematically Controlled, Precisely Defined Dendrimer-Dye Conjugates" Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 4638 – 4645, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304854.

  • Yi, E.; Furgal, J. C.; Azurdia, J.; Laine, R.M. “Roll Your Own – Nano-Nanocomposite Capacitors.” J. Mat. Chem., 2014, 2, 3766-3775, DOI: 10.1039/C3TA14976E.

  • Jung, J. H.; Chou, K.; Furgal, J. C.; Laine, R.M. “Synthesis of acetoxyphenyl- and hydroxyphenyl-terminated polyfunctional T8, T10, T12 silsesquioxanes and initial studies on their use in the formation of highly crosslinked polyesters,” Appl. Organometal. Chem. 2013, 27, 666–672, DOI: 10.1002/aoc.3054.
  • Jung, J. H.; Furgal, J. C.; Clark, S. C.; Schwartz, M. C.; Chou, K.; Laine, R. M. “Copolymerization of [p-IPhSiO1.5)8, I8OPS] with Divinyl (DVB)- and Diethynylbenzene (DEB) gives Beads on a Chain (BoC) Polymers with Functionalized Beads. The DEB Systems Exhibit through Chain, Extended 3-D Conjugation in the Excited State.” Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 7580-7590, DOI: 10.1021/ma401422t.

  • Furgal, J.C.; Jung, J.H.; Clark, S.C.; Goodson III, T.; Laine, R.M. “Beads on a Chain (BoC), Phenylsilsesquioxane (SQ), Conjugated Polymers Via F- Catalyzed Rearrangements and ADMET and Reverse Heck Cross-coupling Reactions; through chain, extended conjugation in 3-D,” Macromolecules 2013, 46, 7591-7604, DOI: 10.1021/ma401423f.

  • Furgal, J.C.; Jung, J.H.; Goodson, T.; Laine, R.M. “Analyzing Structure-Photophysical Property Relationships of Isolated T8, T10, and T12 Stilbenevinyl Silsesquioxanes,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 12259-12269, DOI: 10.1021/ja4043092.

  • Jung, J.H.; Furgal, J.C.; Goodson, III, T.; Mizumo, T.; Schwartz, M.; Chou, K.; Vonet, J.F.; Laine, R.M.; “3-D Molecular Mixtures of Catalytically Functionalized [vinylSiO1.5]10/[vinylSiO1.5]12. Photophysical Characterization of Second Generation Derivatives,” Chem. Mater. 2012, 24 (10), 1883–1895, DOI: 10.1021/cm300587s.

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