Asem Abdulahad
Assistant Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana
Assistant Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana
Teaching: Design and instruction of advanced interdisciplinary laboratory curricula for first and second year undergraduate students. Active mentorship of undergraduate research in chemical and polymer synthesis. Actively engaged in mentoring students (both undergraduate and high school) in STEM disciplines. I also teach (or have taught) general chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and polymer chemistry.

Research: I am interested in designing and developing functional polymer-based materials for energy harvesting, carbon capture, and biomedical applications. Using a variety of analytical instrumentation and synthetic techniques, we focus on understanding the relationship between chemical structure and material properties to guide our understanding and development of functional polymers.
Xavier University of Louisiana
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Greater New Orleans Area
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Assistant Professor
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
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Roanoke, Virginia
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Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
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Blacksburg, VA
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Postdoctoral Associate
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Troy, NY
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Graduate Student/Research Assistant
Pohang University of Science and Technology
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Pohang, South Korea
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Visiting Researcher
Ph.D
Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Physics
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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B.S.
Chemistry
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Morehouse College
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Liquid chromatography at the critical condition (LCCC) is a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique that lies between size exclusion chromatography and adsorption-based interaction chromatography, where the elution of polymers becomes independent of polymer molecular weight. At LCCC, the balance between the entropic exclusion and the enthalpic adsorption interactions between polymers and stationary phases results in the simultaneous HPLC elution of polymers regardless of molecular weight. Using C18-bonded silica chromatographic columns with 5 μm particle size and different average pore size (diameter = 300 Å, 120 Å, 100 Å, and 50 Å), we report (1) the thermodynamic significance of LCCC conditions and (2) the influence of column pore size on the determination of critical conditions for linear polymer chains. Specifically, we used mixtures of monodisperse polystyrene samples ranging in molecular weight from 162 to 371,100 g/mol and controlled the temperature of the HPLC columns at a fixed composition of a mobile phase consisting of 57(v/v)% methylene chloride and 43(v/v)% acetonitrile. It was found that, at the fixed mobile phase composition, the temperature of LCCC (TLCCC) is higher for C18-bonded chromatographic columns with larger average pore size.
Liquid Chromatography at the Critical Condition: Thermodynamic Significance and Influence of Pore Size
Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics
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Student nominated award given to faculty in various departments. This was also awarded for the first course I've ever designed (Integrated Science Laboratory).
Virginia Tech
Favorite Faculty
The Brown Foundation
The Brown Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for Integrated Science
Graduate Fellowship promoting worldwide collaboration and education.
National Science Foundation
Partnerships for International Research Fellow
For outstanding performance as a teaching assistant in organic and general chemistry undergraduate courses.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Johanna Maas Teaching Assistant Award
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Polymer Chemistry & Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering
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STEAM Connections for K-12 Education
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Polymer nanoparticles Network group
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American Chemical Society
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SCM: Separation and Characterization of Macromolecules
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Virginia Tech Macromolecules Innovation Institute
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RPI Black Graduate Students Association
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Community of Polymer Research Professionals
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Chemical Education
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Rensselaer Alumni Association (RPI)
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Total synthesis
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Polymer Experts
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