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Adam J. Matzger, a researcher in polymers and crystals, is the Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
, and an associate editor for the American Chemical Society's journal '' Crystal Growth & Design''.


Biography

Matzger is a native of
Piedmont, California Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, completely surrounded by the city of Oakland. Its residential population was 11,270 at the 2020 census. The name comes from the region of Piedmont in Italy, and it me ...
but moved to Ohio to complete his undergraduate career at Oberlin College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry in 1992. From there he moved back to California for his graduate work at the
University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...
where he studied under Professor Peter C. Vollhardt. In 1997 he earned his Ph. D. degree with a thesis titled "Synthetic, Theoretical, and Structural Studies on Dehydrobenzoannulenes and Phenylenes." He then was a Postdoctoral Researcher at
California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...
(co-mentored by
Robert H. Grubbs Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient ...
and Nathan S. Lewis) until 2000 when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. In 2006 he became an Associate Professor and finally a full Professor in 2009; in 2013 he was appointed as the Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professor of Chemistry. His group researches a range of topics in organic materials, specifically porous materials, polymorphism and metal organic frameworks (MOFs). He is also leading a Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI), funded by the US Army, for improving material properties through cocrystallization.


Scientific career

While traditionally polymorphs are discovered or selectively made through manipulation of growth conditions, such as temperature or solvent, Matzger's group has instead found the ability to control polymorphs by employing different polymers to induce heteronucleation. He first showed this ability with the control over the monoclinic and orthorhombic forms of acetaminophen, a widely used pharmaceutical. This is the only polymorph discovery technique invented in the last 100 years to substantially increase the range of polymorphs accessible; Matzger has pioneered the use of
cocrystal Cocrystals are "solids that are crystalline single phase materials composed of two or more different molecular or ionic compounds generally in a stoichiometric ratio which are neither solvates nor simple salts." A broader definition is that cocryst ...
lization for development of energetic materials. His group has made numerous cocrystals with increased power and decreased sensitivity. Among these are a 2:1 cocrystal of CL-20:HMX and a 1:1 CL20:
TNT Trinitrotoluene (), more commonly known as TNT, more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. TNT is occasionally used as a reagen ...
(2,4,6-trinitro-toluene).
CL-20 Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, also called HNIW and CL-20, is a polycyclic nitroamine explosive with the formula C6H6N12O12. In the 1980s, CL-20 was developed by the China Lake facility, primarily to be used in propellants. It has a better oxid ...
(2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaiso-wurtzitane) is a powerful explosive that is too sensitive to be viable in military use and HMX (1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazacyclooctane) is a standard military explosive. Previous to his work, only aromatic energetic materials were able to form cocrystals because of their ability to pi-stack. Cocrystals that his group have formed are realized through CH hydrogen bonding with the oxygen atoms from the nitro groups, thus opening cocrystallization to the more powerful non-aromatic energetics. His group uses
scanning tunneling microscopy A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, then at IBM Zürich, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. ...
to investigate the spontaneous self-assembly of physisorbed monolayers at atmospheric conditions, two-dimensional crystallization. From this they have created a two-dimensional structural database (2DSD) which has helped unify the view of interfacial self-assembly making it possible to draw comparisons to bulk crystals. This allows the investigation of the differences that arise due to the presence of an interface or reduced dimensionality. His lab synthesized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with high surface areas. Through a collaboration with Michael O'Keeffe and Omar M. Yaghi, they developed MOF-177, or Zn4O(1,3,5-benzenetribenzonate)2, which has a very large surface area, 4,500 m2g−1 and extra large pores which allow the binding of large guest molecules, such as polycyclic organic molecules, the combination of which was not possible in a single material prior to this. Developments from this have included the introduction of coordination copolymerization for producing high surface area materials from simple feedstocks.


Awards and honors

*Associate editor, '' Crystal Growth & Design'', American Chemical Society 2011–2018 * American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow 2010 *Member Editorial Advisory Board of
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences The ''Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Pharmacists Association, with the support of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. It is also published ...
2008-2010 *Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow 2005-2007 *
Beckman Young Investigators Award The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991, and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to p ...
, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, 2003 *


References


External links


Matzger group home page at Michigan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Matzger, Adam J. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Oberlin College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Michigan faculty People from Piedmont, California California Institute of Technology faculty Sloan Research Fellows