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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Assistant Professor
Greater New Orleans Area
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Jefferson College of Health Sciences
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Assistant Professor
Roanoke, Virginia
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Virginia Tech
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Postdoctoral Associate
Blacksburg, VA
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Graduate Student/Research Assistant
Troy, NY
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Pohang University of Science and Technology
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Visiting Researcher
Pohang, South Korea
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Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Physics
Ph.D
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Chemistry
B.S.
Morehouse College
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Liquid Chromatography at the Critical Condition: Thermodynamic Significance and Influence of Pore Size
Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics
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.
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Favorite Faculty
Virginia Tech
Student nominated award given to faculty in various departments. This was also awarded for the first course I've ever designed (Integrated Science Laboratory).
The Brown Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for Integrated Science
The Brown Foundation
Partnerships for International Research Fellow
National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship promoting worldwide collaboration and education.
Dr. Johanna Maas Teaching Assistant Award
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
For outstanding performance as a teaching assistant in organic and general chemistry undergraduate courses.
Today, I am extremely grateful to represent the UNCF/Koch Scholars program and attend UNCF 10th annual Student Leadership Conference! I look forward…
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Polymer Chemistry & Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering
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