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)

ACS POLY

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