Advances in the synthesis of preceramic polymers for the formation of silicon-based and ultrahigh-temperature non-oxide ceramics

…, KL Martin, TS Key, CM Clarkson, JJ Bowen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Preceramic polymers (PCPs) are a group of specialty macromolecules that serve as
precursors for generating inorganics, including ceramic carbides, nitrides, and borides. PCPs …

Emergent soft lithographic tools for the fabrication of functional polymeric microstructures

MA Rose, JJ Bowen, SA Morin - ChemPhysChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric microstructures (PMs) are useful to a broad range of technologies applicable to,
for example, sensing, energy storage, and soft robotics. Due to the diverse application space …

Hierarchically porous ceramics via direct writing of preceramic polymer-triblock copolymer inks

JJ Bowen, S Mooraj, JA Goodman, S Peng, DP Street… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Hierarchically porous ceramics possess tailored porosity across multiple length scales, giving
rise to materials with low density, high specific properties, and multifunctionality. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic manipulation of droplets using mechanically tunable microtextured chemical gradients

AJ Mazaltarim, JJ Bowen, JM Taylor… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Materials and strategies applicable to the dynamic transport of microdroplets are relevant to
surface fluidics, self-cleaning materials, thermal management systems, and analytical …

Surface molding of multi-stimuli-responsive microgel actuators

JJ Bowen, MA Rose, SA Morin - MRS Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
The fabrication of soft hydrogel actuators that rapidly respond to multiple stimuli in ambient
environments is a challenge. This article describes a method—based on surface molding—to …

[HTML][HTML] Neoichnology of two spirobolid millipedes: improving the understanding of the burrows of soil detritivores

JJ Bowen, DI Hembree - 2014 - palaeo-electronica.org
Burrowing detritivores such as millipedes play an important role in soil formation. In order to
improve the recognition of millipede burrows and, therefore, the presence of millipede …

Surface molding of microscale hydrogels with microactuation functionality

JJ Bowen, MA Rose, A Konda… - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This work describes the fabrication of numerous hydrogel microstructures (μ‐gels) via a
process called “surface molding.” Chemically patterned elastomeric‐assembly substrates were …

Solution studies of the nucleic acid bases and related model compounds. Solubility in aqueous urea and amide solutions

TT Herskovits, JJ Bowen - Biochemistry, 1974 - ACS Publications
Bowen abstract: The solubilities of the nucleic acid bases and related nucleosides (adenine,
adenosine, deoxyadenosine, thymine, guanosine, and cytosine) have been determined in …

Tailorable micelle morphology in self-assembling block copolymer gels for templating nanoporous ceramics

JJ Bowen, LM Rueschhoff, KL Martin, DP Street… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of block copolymers offers opportunities for the facile organization and
templating of inorganic nanomaterials. Here, we describe a morphology map for a poly(methyl …

Stretchable chemical patterns for the assembly and manipulation of arrays of microdroplets with lensing and micromixing functionality

JJ Bowen, JM Taylor, CP Jurich… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical properties of a surface are readily controlled using a layer (or layers) of
surface‐functional groups that can be generated with, for example, self‐assembled monolayers (…