Chong Cheng   Assistant Professor   612 Furnas Hall (716) 645-2911 ext. 2266 Fax: (716) 645-3822 ccheng8@buffalo.edu

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Refereed Journal Publications

• Ma, Jun; Cheng, Chong; Sun, Guorong; Wooley, Karen L., “A polarity-activation strategy for the high incorporation of 1-alkene into functional copolymers via RAFT copolymerization”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2007, submitted.

• Cheng, Chong; Powell, Kenya T.; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., “Polydimethylsiloxane- (PDMS-) grafted fluorocopolymers by a “grafting through” strategy based on atom transfer radical (co)polymerization”, Macromolecules, 2007, in press.

• Cheng, Chong; Qi, Kai; Germack, David G.; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., “Synthesis of cylindrical core-crosslinked nanoparticles with shape and size control via core-shell brush copolymer templates”, Advanced Materials, 2007, in press.

• Cheng, Chong; Sun, Guorong; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., “Well-defined vinyl ketone-based polymers by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 10086-10087, 2007.

• Bartels, Jeremy; Cheng, Chong; Powell, Kenya T.; Xu, Jinqi; Wooley, Karen L., “Hyperbranched fluoropolymers and their hybridization into complex amphiphilic crosslinked copolymer networks”, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 208, 1676-1687, 2007.

• Powell, Kenya T.; Cheng, Chong; Wooley, Karen L., “Complex amphiphilic hyperbranched fluoropolymers by atom transfer radical self-condensing vinyl (co)polymerization”, Macromolecules, 40, 4509-4515, 2007.

• Cheng, Chong; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., "One-pot tandem synthesis of a core-shell brush copolymer from small molecule reactants by ring-opening metathesis and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (co)polymerizations”, Macromolecules, 40, 2289-2292, 2007.

   

• Sun, Guorong; Cheng, Chong; Wooley, Karen L., "Reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of 4-vinylbenzaldehyde”, Macromolecules, 40, 793-795, 2007.

   

• Cheng, Chong; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., "Facile one-pot synthesis of brush polymers through tandem catalysis using Grubbs’ catalyst for both ring-opening metathesis and atom transfer radical polymerizations”, Nano Letters, 6, 1741-1746, 2006.

•  Cheng, Chong; Qi, Kai; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., “Tandem synthesis of core-shell brush copolymers and their transformation to peripherally cross-linked and hollowed nanostructures”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 6808-6809, 2006.

• Powell, Kenya T.; Cheng, Chong; Wooley, Karen L.; Singh, Anuradha, Urban, Marek, W., “Amphiphilic crosslinked networks derived from diamine-terminated poly(ethylene glycol) and benzylic chloride-functionalized hyperbranched fluoropolymers”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 44, 4782-4794, 2006.

• Cheng, Chong; Khoshdel, Ezat; Wooley, Karen L., “ATRP from a norbornenyl-functionalized initiator: balancing of complementary reactivity for the preparation of a-norbornenyl macromonomers/w-haloalkyl macroinitiators”, Macromolecules, 38, 9455-9465, 2005. 

•  Cheng, Chong; Wooley, Karen L.; Khoshdel, Ezat, “Hyperbranched fluoropolymers by atom transfer radical self-condensing radical vinyl copolymerization”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 43, 4754-4770, 2005.

•  Powell, Kenya T.; Cheng, Chong; Gudipati, Chakravarthy S.; Wooley, Karen L., “Design, synthesis, and characterization of linear fluorinated poly(benzyl ether)s: a comparison study with isomeric hyperbranched fluoropolymers”, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, 5128-5135, 2005.

• Cheng, Chong; Yang, Nan-Loh, “Synthesis of a novel polyfunctional anionic macroinitiator from a polyfunctional 1,1-diphenylethylene agent”, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 26, 1395-1399, 2005.

 

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Last Updated: August 2007