Jay Taylor

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I am studying how stress in elastic silicone materials can be used to dynamically tune surface properties for the active control over chemical reactions (e.g., heterogeneous nucleation and surface coupling reactions) and other physical processes (particle assembly, adhesion, and actuation).  The ability to rapidly and reversibly stretch and release elastic materials allows us to change both the density of surface molecules and the location of objects resting on their surface.  We have leveraged these capabilities, in ways no one else has reported, to develop and demonstrate applications and systems for studying surface reactions. I’ve focused my research specifically on the control over hard/rigid materials, specifically crystalline minerals and commodity thermoplastics. This research has led to a better understanding of the chemistry at elastic silicones and has been applied to a variety of fields including, microfluidics, micro/nanoscale assembly, materials synthesis, particle separation, micromanufacturing, soft electronics, crystal engineering, and soft robotics.

 

Email: jtaylor22(at)huskers.unl.edu

 

Publications:

  1. Brown, M.C.; Yakubu, R.A.; Taylor, J.M.; Halsey, C.M.; Xiong, J.; Jiji, R.D.; Cooley, J.W. “Bilayer surface association of the pHLIP peptide promotes extensive backbone desolvation and helically-constrained structures” Chem. 2014, 187-188, 1-6.
  2. Konda, A; Taylor, J.M.; Stoller, M.A.; Morin, S.A. “Reconfigurable Microfluidic Systems with Reversible Seals Compatible with 2D and 3D Surfaces of Arbitrary Chemical Composition” Lab Chip2015, 15, 2009-2017.
  3. Bowen, J.J.; Taylor, J.M.; Jurich, C.P.; Morin, S.A. “Stretchable Chemical Patterns for the Assembly and Manipulation of Arrays of Microdroplets with Lensing and Micromixing Functionality”  Func. Mater.2015, 34, 5520-5528.
  4. Taylor, J.M.; Argyropoulos, C.; Morin, S.A. “Soft Surfaces for the Reversible Control of Thin-Film Microstructure and Optical Reflectance”  Mater. 2016, 28, 2595-2600.
  5. Rose, M. A.; Taylor, J.M.; Morin, S.A. “Adhesion of Morphologically Distinct Crystals to and Selective Release from Elastomeric Surfaces” Mater. 2016, 28, 8513-8522.
  6. Vinod, T.P.; Taylor, J.M.; Konda, A.; Stephen, S.M. “Stretchable Substrates for the Assembly of Polymeric Microstructures” Small, 2016, 13, 1603350.
  7. Taylor, J.M.; Toralla-Perez, K.; Aispuro, R; Morin, S.A. “Covalent Bonding of Thermoplastics to Rubbers for Printable, Reel-to-Reel Processing in Soft Robotics and Microfluidics” Mater. 2018, 30, 1705333.
  8. Konda, A.; Rau, A.; Stoller, M.A.; Taylor, J.M.; Salam, A.; Pribil, G.A.; Argyropoulos, C.; Morin, S.A. “Soft Microreactors for the Deposition of Conductive Metallic Traces on Planar, Embossed, and Curved Surfaces” Adv Funct Mater. 2018, 28, 180302.
  9. Taylor, J.M.; Konda, A.; Morin, S.M. ‘Elastic Surfaces for the Spatio and Temporal Control over Calcium Carbonate Nucleation” in preparation.
  10. Taylor, J. M.; Argyropoulos, C.; Morin, S.A. “Tunability of Artificial Magnetic dipoles from All-Dielectric Metasurface Tripillar Geometries” in preparation.