Marek W. Urban is an American professor, polymer and materials scientist who works in the field of polymers, polymer spectroscopy, polymeric coatings and films, stimuli-responsive materials, and self-healing polymers. He studied at Marquette University where he received MS degree (1979) and continued at

Michigan Technological University Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ...

where he received his doctorate in chemistry and chemical engineering (1984), followed by postdoctoral fellowship at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

(1984–86). He is currently J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. His prior appointments included department chair positions at North Dakota State University and University of Southern Mississippi. He also has led and directed the

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Research Centers, Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Coatings (1995–2005) and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Films and Coatings. Numerous media including

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,Fountain, Henry
"A Polymer Coating That Can Heal Itself Thanks to UV Light"
''New York Times'', 13 March 2009. Forbes,Jonathan Fahey

''Forbes'', 12 March 2009. BBC,"Coatings that 'self-heal' in sun"
''BBC NEWS'', 12 March 2009. National Geographic,
''National Geographic News'', 13 March 2009. Discovery,
''Discovery News'', 26 March 2012. The Economist,"The microbiological minefield"
''The Economist'', 17 May 2013. Discovery Channel, USA Today, local TV stations,Lofton, Lynn
"USM professor develops self-repairing plastic material"
''Mississippi Business Journal'', 19 August 2012. and many others have featured his research group
Urban Research Group
discoveries in stimuli-responsive polymers, including self-healing films, colloidal synthesis, and antimicrobial surfaces.

Selected publications

BOOKS Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Molecules to Nature Mimicking Materials Design. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2016. Handbook of Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Wiley-VCH, Verlag & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011. Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy of Polymeric Materials; Theory and Practice,

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and

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 1996. Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules and Macromolecules on Surfaces, John Wiley & Sons, 1993. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS "Self-Healing Polymers," Nature Rev. Mat., 2020, 5, 562-583. "Water accelerated self-healing of hydrophobic copolymers,” Nature, Commun., 2020, 11: 5743. "Entropy and Interfacial Energy Driven Self-healable Polymers,” Nature Commun., 2020, 11:1028 "Key-and-Lock Commodity Self-Healing Copolymers," Science, 2018, 362(6411), 220-225. "Dynamic materials: The Chemistry of Self-Healing," Nature Chem., 2012, 4, 80-82. Water accelerated self-healing of hydrophobic copolymers,” ''Nature Commun.'', 2020, 11, 5743. "Phage-Bacterium War on Polymeric Surfaces: Can Surface-Anchored Bacteriophages Eliminate Microbial Infections?" Biomacromolecules, 2013, 14(5), 1257-1261. "Self-Repairable Polyurethane Networks by Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Water," Angewandte Chemie Inter. Ed., 2014, 53(45), 12142-12147. "One-Step Synthesis of Amphiphilic Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Block Copolymers by Surfactant-Free Heterogeneous Radical Polymerization," ACS Macro Lett., 2015, 4, 1317–1320. "Instantaneous Directional Growth of Block Copolymer Nanowires During Heterogeneous Radical Polymerization (HRP)," Nano Lett., 2016, 16(4), 2873-2877.

References

External links

Urban Research website
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