Eagan Lab Publications - Polymer Research

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Internally Promoted Reactivity of Carbonized Butadiene and Amines Enables a Recyclable Polymer Composite
Keaton M. Turney, Abdol H. Mokarizadeh, Mesfin Tsige, James M. Eagan

Science Advances, 2026, 12, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aed1295
Intrinsically Bifunctional and Tunable Tungsten Carbide Catalysts Enable Efficient PVC-Compatible Polyolefin Hydrocracking
Uchenna C. Nwachukwu, Matthew J. Moegling, Sinhara M.H.D. Perera, Arsalaan Nisar Pathan, Jun Chen, Fereshteh Rezvani, Aswathi Rajeevan Vannante Valappil, Cong Zhou, Lamisa Rahman, Jian Liu, Sungmin Kim, James M. Eagan, Siddharth Deshpande, Marc D. Porosoff, Linxiao Chen

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 47963–47976.
Aqueous chemi-mechanical recycling for blending, decolorizing, and purifying mixed polyolefins
Madison R. Reed, Arsalaan N. Pathan, Abhishek Banerjee, Michael T. Timko, James M. Eagan

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026, 529, 173097
Segmented multiblock polyolefin compatibilizers from non-living metathesis chain-shuffling
Abhishek Banerjee, Navin Kafle, Walter G. Romano, Harsh Pandya, Shin Horiuchi, Aarushi Srivastava, Fardin Khabaz, Mark D. Foster, Toshikazu Miyoshi & James M. Eagan

Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 10515.
Tandem CO2 valorisation to polycarbonate vitrimer and ethylene carbonate
Seiyoung Yoon, Ling-Jo Wu, Sophia Aracri, Satej S. Joshi, Vishal Kumar, Wenbin Kuang, Mark D. Foster, James M. Eagan, Junpeng Wang.

RSC Applied Polymers, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5LP00314H
Branching Pattern, Distribution, and Chain-Walking Mechanism of Highly Branched Polyethylenes Synthesized by α-Diimine Ni(II) Catalysts as Studied via 13C Solution-State NMR Spectroscopy
Bohao Peng, Keaton Turney, James Eagan, Toshikazu Miyoshi

Macromolecules 2025, 58, 7871–7883.
Chemically and Mechanically Recyclable Vitrimers from Carbon Dioxide-Based Polycarbonates
Seiyoung Yoon, Satej S. Joshi, Sophia Aracri, Yuliana Ospina-Yepes, Devavrat Sathe, Mark D. Foster, Junpeng Wang, James M. Eagan
ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2025, 7, 4561–4571.
Supramolecular Purification of Aromatic Polyester Monomers from Chemical Depolymerization
Gavan W. Lienhart, Thomas Palisin, William Gross, Amelia Moll, James M. Eagan
RSC Sustainability, 2024, 2, 3879-3887.
Advances in Nonreactive Polymer Compatibilizers for Commodity Polyolefin Blends
Ting-Wei Lin, Omar Padilla-Vélez, Parin Kaewdeewong, Anne M. LaPointe, Geoffrey W. Coates, James M. Eagan
Chem. Rev. 2024, doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00047
Carbon Dioxide-Derived Poly(Propylene Carbonate) Bottlebrush Polymers: Synthesis, Viscoelastic Properties, and Degradation
Derek B. Schwarz, Kevin A. Cavicchi, James M. Eagan.
Macromolecules 2024.
doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00145
Anionic Conjugate Addition Oligomerization of Carbon Dioxide/Butadiene Derived Lactones
B. J. Crawford, C. Bochenek, L. D. Garcia Espinosa, A. R. Keating, K. Williams-Pavlantos, C. Wesdemiotis, J. M. Eagan
ACS MacroLetters 2024, 13, 658-663.
doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00164
Sustainable Copolymer Synthesis from Carbon Dioxide and Butadiene
Shan Tang, Bo-Lin Lin, Ian Tonks, James M. Eagan, Xufeng Ni, and Kyoko Nozaki

Chem. Rev. 2024, doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00847
Phase Separation and Crystallization in Monodisperse Block Copolymers of Linear Low-Density Polyethylene and Isotactic Polypropylene
A. Cicolella, F. D. Stefano, M. Scoti, G. Talarico, J. M. Eagan, G. W. Coates, R. Di Girolamo, C. De Rosa.

Macromolecules 2024, 57, 2230–2245. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02470
Amino Acid Specific Nonenzymatic Montmorillonite-Promoted RNA Polymerization.
T. Namani, S. Snyder, J. M. Eagan, P. C. Bevilacqua, C. Wesdemiotis, N. Sahai.

ChemSystemsChem. 2021, 3, e2000060
Roles of Conformational Flexibility in the Crystallization of Stereoirregular Polymers.
N. Kafle, Y. Makita, Y. Zheng, D. Schwarz, H. Kurosu, P. Pan, J. M. Eagan, Y. Nakama, S. Hayano, T. Miyoshi.

Macromolecules 2021, 54, 5705–5718
Degradable Polymer Structures from Carbon Dioxide and Butadiene.
L. D. Garcia Espinosa, K. Williams-Pavlantos, K. M. Turney, C. Wesdemiotis, J. M. Eagan.

ACS MacroLett 2021, 10, 1254–1259
Asymmetric Molecular Dynamics and Anisotropic Phase Separation in Co-crystal of Crystalline/Crystalline Polymer Blends.
Y. Zheng, N. Kafle, D. Schwarz, J. M. Eagan, S. Hayano, Y. Nakama, P. Pan, T. Miyoshi.

ACS MacroLetters, 2022, 11, 193–198.
The Divergent Reactivity of Lactones Derived from Butadiene and Carbon Dioxide in Macromolecular Synthesis
J. M. Eagan.

Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2022, doi/10.1002/marc.202200348.
Ethylene Polymerization Using Heterogeneous Multinuclear Nickel Catalysts Supported by a Crosslinked Alpha Diimine Ligand Network.
K. M. Turney, P. Kaewdeewong, J. M. Eagan.

Polymer Chemistry 2023, 14, 1983–1990
Crystallinity of Recycled PET Fibers from Chemical and Mechanical Reprocessing
L. Wu, G. Lienhart, S. Basak, S. C. Jana, K. A. Cavicchi, J. M. Eagan.

Tire Science and Technology 2023, doi.org/10.2346/tire.23.22020

Prior To UAkron

Compatibilization of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) with iPP-PE multiblock copolymers.
J. Xu, J. M. Eagan, S. Kim, S. Pan, B. Lee, K. Klimovica, K. Jin, T. Lin, C. J. Ellison, A. M. LaPointe, G. W. Coates, F. S. Bates.

Macromolecules 2018, 51, 8585–8596
Combining polyethylene and polypropylene: enhanced performance with PE/iPP multiblock polymers.
J. M. Eagan, J. Xu, R. D. Girolamo, C. W. Macosko, C. M. Thurber, A. M. LaPointe, F. S. Bates, G. W. Coates.

Science 2017, 355, 814–816

Recipient of 2017 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize.
Semi-crystalline polar polyethylene: ester-functionalized linear polyolefins enabled by a functional-group-tolerant, cationic nickel catalyst.
B. K. Long, J. M. Eagan, M. Mulzer, G. W. Coates.

Angew. Chem, Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7106–7110
Development of isoselective living pyridylamidohafnium catalysts for propylene polymerization using a combined experimental and theoretical approach.
G. J. Domski, J. M. Eagan, A. M. LaPointe, R. D. Girolamo, G. Talarico, G. W. Coates.

ACS Catalysis 2017, 7, 6930–6937
Identification of Uric Acid Gluconucleoside-Ascaroside Conjugates in Caenorhabditis elegans by Combining Synthesis and MicroED.
B. J. Curtis, L. J. Kim, C. J. J. Wrobel, J. M. Eagan, R. A. Smith, J. E. Burch, H. H. Le, A. B. Artyukhin, H. M. Nelson*, and F.C. Schroeder*

Organic Letters 2020, 22, 6724–6728
Synthesis and applications of hajos-parrish ketone isomers.
J. M. Eagan, M. Hori, J. Wu, K. S. Kanyiva, S. A. Snyder.

Angew. Chem, Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7842–7846
Total synthesis, reactivity, and structural clarification of lindenatriene.
J. M. Eagan, K. S. Kanyiva, M. Hori, S. A. Snyder.

Tetrahedron 2019, 75, 3145–3153
The rhodium(II) carbenoid cyclization-cycloaddition cascade of diazo dihydro-indolinones for the synthesis of novel azapolycyclic ring systems.
D. B. England, J. M. Eagan, G. Merey, O. Anac, A. Padwa.

Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 988–1001
Intramolecular [4+2]-cycloaddition of 5-amino-substituted oxazoles as an approach toward the left-hand segment of haplophytine.
M. Chughtai, J. M. Eagan, A. Padwa.

Synlett 2011, 2, 215–218

Patents

Process for Production of Ascarylose and Related Compounds
Patent number: 63/059,363

Publication date: Filed July 2020

Inventors: J. M. Eagan, J. Farmer
End-Group Isomerization of Poly(Alkylene Carbonate) Polymers
Patent number: 20190322802

Publication date: October 24, 2019

Inventors: James Eagan, Christopher A. Simoneau, Jay J. Farmer
Polyethylene and Polypropylene Block Copolymers
Patent number: 20190300631

Publication date: October 3, 2019

Inventors: Geoffrey Coates, James Eagan, Anne LaPointe