Publications

Ghimire, E.; Appen, I. S.; Lindberg, C. A.; Blagitz de Abreu e Silva, L.; Rowan, S. J. Impact of dynamic bond strength on the training of liquid crystal elastomers. Chemical Science 2026, 10.1039/D5SC07491F. DOI: 10.1039/D5SC07491F.

Dolinski, N.D.; Crolais, A.E.; Boynton, N.R.; Chen, C.; de Pablo, J.J.; Snyder, S.A.; Rowan, S.J. Manipulating dynamic covalent bonds through direct photoisomerization Chem. Sci. 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC06704A

Nicholas R. Boynton, N.R.; Bennett, C.M.; Hagan, T.D.; Solymosy, G.R.; Lindberg, C.A.; Schaller, N.A.; Vivod, S.L.; Patel, S.N.; Rowan, S.J. Multipotent elastomers via tempering of phase-separated dynamic covalent networks ACS Macro Lett. 2025, 14, 1728–1734. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00653

Kaden C. Stevens, K.C.; Lott, M.E.; Treaster, K.A.; O’Dea, R.M.; Adarsh Suresh, A.; Cabell B. Eades, C.B.; Thompson, V.L.; Bowman, J.I.; Young, J.B.; Evans, A.M.; Rowan, S.J.; Epps III, T.H.; Sumerlin, B.S. Depolymerization as a Design Strategy: Depolymerization Etching of Polymerization-Induced Microphase Separations ACS Cent. Sci. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c01313

Suresh, A.; Sengokmen-Ozsoz, N.; Ye, A.; Lovejoy, J.; Campos, M.; Makris, E.; Claeyssens, F.; Liu, C.; Rowan, S.J. Balancing strength, toughness, and shrinkage in 3D porous carbon architectures through partial carbonization of template-coating pairs Polymer 2025, in press. 10.1016/j.polymer.2025.129217

Suresh, A.; Campos, M.; Xie, K.; Makris, E.; Lovejoy, J.; El Shamsy, M.; Liu, C.; Rowan, S.J. Designing Thermally Compatible Template-Coating Pairs Toward Dimensionally Stable 3D Porous Carbons with Tunable Density Adv. Func. Mater. 2025, Early View. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202515814

Liu, G.; Oh, J; Tian, Y.; Hertzog, J.E.; Liang, H.; Rawe, B.W.; Nitta, N.; Lindberg, C.A.; Kim, H.; de Pablo, J.J. and Rowan, S.J. Structure–property relationships of responsive doubly-threaded slide-ring polycatenane networks Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 19192-19204. DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05459A

Ghosh, R.; Zhang, F.; Jang, H.-J.; Hui, J.; Vittore, K.; You, H.; Vepa, R.; Zhuang, W.; Huang, X.; Pu, H.; Elam, J. W.; Rowan, S.J.; Lee, D.; Ainsworth, E.A.; Hersam, M.C.; Chen, Y.; Chen, J. Real‐Time Phosphate Monitoring via Plant‐Derived Graphene Ink FET Sensors Integrated with Deep Learning Energy Environ. Mater. 2025, e70144. DOI: 10.1002/eem2.70144

Kim, H.; Li, K.; Crolais, A.E., Rowan, S.J. Short-Time Relaxation and Anomalous Diffusion in Dynamic Covalent Networks ACS Macro Lett. 2025 14, 1375-1381. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00456

Hossainy, S.; Kang, S.; Emiliano Gómez Medellín, J.; Alpar, A.T.; Refvik, K.C.; Ma, Y.; Vuong, I.; Chang, K.; Wang, T.; Solanki, A.; Rowan, S.J.; Hubbell, J.A. Thermoreversibly Assembled Polymersomes for Highly Efficient Loading, Processing, and Delivery of Protein and siRNA Biologics Nature Bioeng. 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01469-7

Kim, H.; Livermore, S.M.; Rowan, S.J.; Jaeger, H.M. Dense suspensions as trainable rheological metafluids Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025 122, e2509525122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2509525122

Gowen, S.; Ghimire, E.; Lindberg, C.A.; Appen, I.S.; Rowan, S.J.; Nagel S.R. Training and re-training liquid crystal elastomer metamaterials for pluripotent functionality Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025 122, e2504304122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504304122

Chen, C.; Martínez Narváez, C.D.V.; Chang, N.; Medina Jimenez, C.; Dennis, J.M.; Jaegar, H.M.; Rowan, S.J.; de Pablo, J.J. Tunable shear thickening, aging, and rejuvenation in suspensions of shape-memory-endowed liquid crystalline particles Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025 122, e2425373122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425373122

Elahi, A.; You, H.; Rowan, S.J.; Chaudhuri, S. Molecular Simulation-Driven Design of Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrystals toward Improved Dispersibility and Stabilization in Ethanol Langmuir 2025, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c00312

Rowan, S.J.; Dichtel, W.R.; Schott, M. Obituary: Sir James Fraser Stoddart, Nature Nanotech. 2025, 20, 588-589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01911-6

Charlie A Lindberg, Alice E Roberson, Elina Ghimire, Jerald E Hertzog, Nicholas R Boynton, Guancen Liu, Deborah K Schneiderman, Shrayesh N Patel, Stuart J Rowan. Chemistry–A European Journal. 2025.

Oh, J.; Liu, G.; Kim, H.; Hertzog, J. E.; Nitta, N.; Rowan, S. J. Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202411172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202411172.

Chuqiao Chen, Viviana Palacio-Betancur, Sepideh Norouzi, Pablo F. Zubieta-Rico, Nina Chang, Monirosadat Sadati, Stuart J. Rowan, and Juan J. de Pablo* Chem. Mater. 2024, 36, 7, 3081–3091

Stéphanie Engelen, Neil D Dolinski, Chuqiao Chen, Elina Ghimire, Charlie A Lindberg, Alex E Crolais, Natsumi Nitta, Johan M Winne, Stuart J Rowan, Filip E Du Prez.
Angew. Chem. 2024, 136, e2023184

Harrison R Paul, Matthew V Tirrell, Stuart J Rowan. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2024, 7, 4, 4210–4219