{"id":1570,"date":"2023-10-06T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/?page_id=1570"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:31:27","slug":"john-kapitan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/john-kapitan\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kapitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1228\" src=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/John_cropped-1024x959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/John_cropped-1024x959.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/John_cropped-300x281.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/John_cropped-900x843.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My name is John Kapitan and I am from Northwest Indiana. I received my bachelors degree in chemistry from Purdue Calumet (now Purdue Northwest) in 2017. After that I joined the Morin group in the fall of 2017 and worked on getting my Master\u2019s degree in chemistry in the spring of 2021. My Bachelor\u2019s degree focused primarily on organic and polymer chemistry and my Master\u2019s focused on surface chemistry for selective crystal growth and directional adhesion.<\/p>\n<p>My dissertation work focuses primarily on covalent attachment of hydrogel polymers to elastomeric surfaces. These hydrogels can easily be derivatized, either by incorporating functional fillers or crosslinkers, to afford different functionalities such as microreactors or synthetic extra cellular matrices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is John Kapitan and I am from Northwest Indiana. I received my bachelors degree in chemistry from Purdue Calumet (now Purdue Northwest) in 2017. After that I joined the Morin group in the fall of 2017 and worked on getting my Master\u2019s degree in chemistry in the spring of 2021. My Bachelor\u2019s degree &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/john-kapitan\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/morin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}