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Dr. Li Jia

Professor, Polymer Science

School of Polymer Science & Polymer Engineering 02

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• 330-972-5290
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• Goodyear Polymer Center

About

Dr. Jia  is  a Professor in the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at The University of Akron. His research group focuses on synthesis of novel polymer materials. Prior to joining the university, he was an industrial researcher at Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials and an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and his B.Sc. from Lanzhou University in China.

Honors

NSF CAREER Award
DuPont Young Professor Award
Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Award

Professional Affiliations

American Chemical Society

Selected Publications

ResearchGate

• Srivastava, A.; Zhao, Y.; Meyerhofer, J.; Jia, L.;* Foster, M. D.* “Design of Interfacial Crowding for Elastomeric
  Reinforcement with Nanocrystals”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 10349-10358.
• Sun, Y.; Fan, C.; Zhao, Y.; Jia, L.* “Peroxide-Cured Isobutylene-Isoprene Rubber Composite: Methacrylate
  Coagent and Enhanced Mechanical Properties by In Situ Formed Methacrylate Domains”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.
  2021, 60, 2728-2735.
• Dai, Y.; Lou, J.; Liu, T.; Jia, L.* “Dual-Site Catalysis for Sustainable Polymers to Replace Current Commodity
  Polymers – Carbonylative Copolymerization of Ethylene, Ethylene Oxide, and Tetrahydrofuran”, Chem.
  Commun. 2020, 56, 15341-15344.
• Sun, Y.; Yan, X.; Liang, H.; Böhm, G.; Jia, L.* “Rubber Recycling: Mending the Interface between Ground Rubber
  Particles and Virgin Rubber”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 47957–47965.
• Sun, Y.; Fan, C.; Wei, B.; Wesdemiotis, C.; Jia, L.* “Activated Isobutylene-Isoprene Rubber Synthesis, Peroxide
  Cure, and Mechanical Properties”, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2020, 2, 5163–5172.
• Tan, X.; Zhao, Y.; Qian, M.; Hamed, G. R.; Jia, L.* “Reinforcement of Rubber Using Reactive Oligo(b-alanine)
  Supramolecular Fillers”, RUBBER CHEM. TECHNOL. 2019, 92, 198-217.
• Dai, Y.; He, S.; Peng, B.; Crandall, L. A.; Schrage, B. R.; Ziegler, C. J.; Jia, L.*Zwitterionic Design Principle of Ni(II)
  Catalysts for Carbonylative Polymerization of Cyclic Ethers,” Angew Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 130, 14111-14115.
• Zhao, Y.; Fu, L.; Jia, L.*“Synthesis, characterization, and mechanical and dynamic mechanical studies of β-
  alanine trimer-grafted SBR”, Polymer 2018, 136, 62-70.
• Yan, X.; Hamed, G. R.;* Jia, L.* “Urushiol-derived non-silane coupling agent”, Polymer 2017, 125, 172-181.
• Tan, X.; Zhao, Y.; Shang, M.; Hamed, G. R.;* Jia, L.* “Supramolecular Reinforcement of Styrene-Butadiene
  Rubber Composites”, Polymer 2017, 122, 242-248.
• Jia, X.; Zhang, M.; Li, M.; Pan, F.; Ding, K.; Jia, L.;* Crandall, L. A.; Engle, J. T.; Ziegler, C. J.* “Zwitterionic Nickel(II)
  Catalysts for CO-Ethylene Alternating Copolymerization”, Organometallics 2017, 36, 1122-1132.