Yixin Ren
Ph. D. in Chemistry 2018
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas at Dallas
800 W Campbell, BE 26 Richardson TX 75080
Office: BE 2.526
Email: yxr140330@utdallas.edu
Research Topic:
Neodymium-based Catalysts for Ring Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters and Polymerization of Dienes
Previous Institutions
SUNY The University at Buffalo, New York
B.S. in Chemistry (2012)
Illinois State University, Illinois
M.S. in Chemistry (2014)
Research
- Project I: Neodymium-based Catalysts bearing Phosphate Ligands for Ring Opening Polymerization
- Project II: Neodymium-based Catalysts bearing Phosphate Ligands for Polymerization of Diene Monomers
Publications
- Yixin Ren, Justin T. Miller, Stefanie T. Polderman, Trinh D. Vo, Adele CM Wallace, John Michael O. Cue, Sarah T. Tran, Michael C. Biewer, Mihaela C. Stefan, "Halide-free neodymium phosphate based catalyst for highly cis-1,4 selective polymerization of dienes", RSC Advances, 2019, 9(6), pp. 3345-3350
- Yixin Ren, Ruvanthi N. Kularatne, Justin T. Miller, Stefanie T Polderman, Trinh D. Vo, Michael C. Biewer, Mihaela C Stefan, "Neodymium-based catalysts bearing phosphate ligands for ring-opening plymerization of ε-caprolactone", Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 56(12), pp. 1289-1296