• Heterocyclic synthesis
• Polymer synthesis
• Optically transparent conductive polymers
• Nanofibers
• Nanolithography

Awards

• Featured Alumni – U. Florida, 2007
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (CHE), 2004
• ACS POLYED Undergraduate Polymer Chemistry Award, 1993
• American Institute of Chemists Award (Virginia), 1993

Publications

Deep Well Trapping of Hot Carriers in a Hexagonal Boron Nitride Coating of Polymer Dielectrics. Thomas Linker, Yifei Wang, Ankit Mishra, Deepak Kamal, Yang Cao, Rajiv K Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Rampi Ramprasad, Fuyuki Shimojo, Gregory Sotzing, Priya Vashishta. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14587

Flexible Cyclic-olefin with enhanced dipolar relaxation for harsh condition electrification. Chao Wu*, Ajinkya A Deshmukh*, Omer Yassin, Jierui Zhou, Abdullah Alamri, John Vellek, Stuti Shukla, Michael Sotzing, Riccardo Casalini, Gregory A Sotzing, Yang Cao. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115367118

Electrochromic Fabric Displays from a Robust, Open‐Air Fabrication Technique. Sneh Sinha, Robert Daniels, Omer Yassin, Matthew Baczkowski, Mattewos Tefferi, Ajinkya Deshmukh, Yang Cao, Gregory Sotzing. Advanced Materials Technologies.https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202100548

Dielectric Polymers Tolerant to Electric Field and Temperature Extremes: Integration of Phenomenology, Informatics, and Experimental Validation. Chao Wu, Lihua Chen, Ajinkya Deshmukh, Deepak Kamal, Zongze Li, Pranav Shetty, Jierui Zhou, Harikrishna Sahu, Huan Tran, Gregory Sotzing, Rampi Ramprasad, Yang Cao. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c11885

Long Vibrational Lifetime R-Selenocyanate Probes for Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy: Properties and Synthesis. Sebastian M Fica-Contreras, Robert Daniels, Omer Yassin, David J Hoffman, Junkun Pan, Gregory Sotzing, Michael D Fayer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2021.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04939

All‐Organic Flexible Ferroelectret Nanogenerator with Fabric‐Based Electrodes for Self‐Powered Body Area Networks. Ningzhen Wang, Robert Daniels, Liam Connelly, Michael Sotzing, Chao Wu, Reimund Gerhard, Gregory A Sotzing, Yang Cao. Small 2021.https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202103161

Integrated dry poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate electrodes on finished textiles for continuous and simultaneous monitoring of electrocardiogram, electromyogram and electrodermal activity. Sneh K Sinha, Hugo F Posada-Quintero, Yeonsik Noh, Christopher Allen, Robert Daniels, Ki H Chon, Laurie Sloan, Gregory A Sotzing. Flexible and Printed Electronics 2020.https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-8585/abad89/meta

Colorless to black electrochromic devices using subtractive color mixing of two electrochromes: A conjugated polymer with a small organic molecule. Mengfang Li, Omer A Yassin, Matthew L Baczkowski, Xiaozheng Zhang, Robert Daniels, Ajinkya A Deshmukh, Yumin Zhu, Michael T Otley, Gregory A Sotzing. Organic Electronics 2020.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2020.105748

Roll‐to‐Roll Production of Novel Large‐Area Piezoelectric Films for Transparent, Flexible, and Wearable Fabric Loudspeakers. Armen Yildirim, Jesse C Grant, Guochenhao Song, SungHo Yook, Zeynep Mutlu, Samuel Peana, Aginiprakash Dhanabal, Sneh K Sinha, Robert Daniels, Kristen M Bellisario, Gregory A Sotzing, Davin H Huston, Bryan C Pijanowksi, Rahim Rahimi, Yangfan Liu, Mukerrem Cakmak. Advanced Materials Technologies 2020.https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202000296

Frequency-dependent dielectric constant prediction of polymers using machine learning. Lihua Chen, Chiho Kim, Rohit Batra, Jordan P. Lightstone, Chao Wu, , Zongze Li, Ajinkya A. Deshmukh, Yifei Wang, Huan D. Tran, Priya Vashishta, Gregory A. Sotzing, Yang Cao, Rampi Rampasad. npj computational materials 2020.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-020-0333-6