UT-ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials
Biography
Rigoberto Advincula is a Governor’s Chair Professor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is also a Group Leader at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), ORNL. His area of expertise is in organic and polymer chemistry, nanomaterials, flow chemistry and reaction engineering, additive manufacturing, and biomaterials. He has led major projects including a machine learning (ML) flow chemistry lab at ORNL and advanced nanocomposite manufacturing with DOE. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Fellow of the Polymer Science and Engineering Division (ACS), Fellow of the Polymer Chemistry Division (ACS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Netzsch NATAS 2023 Fellow. In 2024, he received the International Prize of the Society of Polymer Science of Japan (SPSJ) He has been appointed to the World Economic Forum, Advanced Materials Council. He has held several visiting professor positions including Waseda University in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Polymers (MPI-P) Research in Germany. He obtained his PhD in chemistry at the University of Florida and had post-doctoral positions at the MPI-P and Stanford University. He is passionate in mentoring students and establishing interdisciplinary STEM programs.
Research
Polymers, nanoscience, macromolecule science and engineering, organic materials, hybrid materials, and ultrathin films: (1) synthesis of ligands and radiopharmaceutical and separations, high throughput manufacturing and continuous flow chemistry with AI/ML driven reaction engineering. (2) For radio-isotope imaging and tracers: phantom materials and biomedical samples using 3D Printing and nanomaterials, (3) scintillation materials and detectors base on lanthanide: europium complexes, (4) Polymer materials and objects for radiation shielding and transparency (polyolefins).
H-index = 84, i10-index = 330, and 24,675 total citations.
Education
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1996. Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1995. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
- PhD in Chemistry, 1994. The University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville, FL. Advisor: Randolph S. Duran
- BS in Chemistry, 1987. The University of the Philippines, Institute of Chemistry, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Professional Service
- Board Member, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Board of Chemical Science and Technologies (BCST), 2024.
- President, 2023 Pacific Polymer Federation (PPF) of Polymer Societies
- Editor, Reactive and Functional Polymers (Elsevier) 2012-2017
- Editor, Macromolecular Research (Springer) 2010-2017
- Associate Editor, Polymer Reviews (Taylor & Francis) 2014-2017
- Regional Editor, Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers (Sage) 2011-206
- World Economic Forum, Council Member, Global Future Materials Council, 2016-2018.
- Editor in Chief, MRS Communications (Materials Research Society) 2017- present
- Chair, Polymer Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2015
- National Science Foundation, Biomaterials: Tools and Foundry Workshop, Organizer and Leader, Arlington, VA 2016.
- Chair, Nanotechnology and Corrosion TEG 474X Technical Committee of NACE, 2016
- Member, NAKFI Imaging Science Report Review Committee, Keck Foundation and National Academies (NAS, NAE, IM) 2016
- Claude R. Hocott Lecture in Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas 2015
- Polymer Pacific Federation, Council Member 2015- present
- IUPAC Division 4 (Polymer) Council, Member (elected) 2015
- Elected to National Institute of Health (NIH) College of CSR Reviewers, 2010
Publications
A full list of Advincula's publications is available at his Google Scholar Profile.
- Ge, J.; Cheng, X.; Rong, L.; Cao, P.; Caldona, E.; Advincula, R.* “A magnetic‐directed micro‐particle with near‐IR light triggered guest‐release property” J. Applied Polymer Science (2024) e56110. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.56110
- Jiang, Y.; Serrano, A.; Choi, W.; Advincula, R.; Wu, F. “Advanced and functional composite materials via additive manufacturing: Trends and perspectives,” MRS Communications (2024), https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-024-00625-5
- Christakopoulos, P.; Wang, H.; Bonnesen, P.; Keum, J.; Wang, Y.; Hong, K.; Lokitz, B.; Doucet, M.; Browning, J.; Advincula, R.; Kumar, R.*, “Characterizing Hygroscopic Films of Polyzwitterions in Electric Fields Using Neutron and X-ray Reflectometries: Electrostriction or Mass Loss?” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c09938
- Garcia, V.; Cheng, X.; Rong, L.; Lara-Ceniceros, T.; Ricohermoso III, E.; Bonilla-Cruz, J.; Espiritu, R.; Advincula, R.* “Thermomechanical properties of stereolithographic 3D-printed zinc oxide nanocomposites,” MRS Communications 2024, 14(4), 676-685.
- Keum, J.; Christakopoulos, P.; Liu, Z.; Li, T.; Chen, J.; Williams, A.; Hensley, D.; Hong, K.; Wang, Y.; Advincula, R.; Kumar, R.* “Chemical Specificity in Polyzwitterion-Polyelectrolyte Coacervates: Polycations vs Polyanions,” Eur. Poly. J. 2024, 113177.
- Ju, H.; Yin, Z.; Demchuk, Z.; Bocharova, V.; Gainaru, C.; Laub, J.; Vogiatzis, K.; Advincula, R.; Chen, J.; Cao, P. “Constructing Crown Ether‐Based Supramolecular Adhesives with Ambient‐Temperature Applicable and Durable Adhesion,” Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 2402165.
- Patiño, K.; Caldona, E.; Kim, E.; Lambert, J.; Winn, E.; Ribeiro, E.; Jiang, Y.; Ferdousi, S.; Hicks, B.; Wang, Y.; Ivanov, I.; Advincula, R.* “Distinct Mechanism of Anti-Corrosion and Swelling-Adhesion Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nylon-Fluoropolymer Composite Coatings”, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2024, 6(6), 3049-3059.
- Nocheseda, C.; Ballesteros, L.; Grande, M.; Caldona, E.; Advincula, R.* “Copper-nickel electroplating of 3D-printed acrylonitrile butadiene styrene for interference and radiation shielding applications” , Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2023, 308, 128193
- Ge, J.; Cheng, X.; Rong, L.; Capadona, J.; Caldona, E.; Advincula, R.* “3D Temperature-Controlled Interchangeable Pattern for Size-Selective Nanoparticle Capture” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024, 16(10), 12232-1224.
- Bai, J.; Guo, L.; Chen, M.; Advincula, R.; Zhang, H.* “Cu (II)-Catalyzed H/D exchange of indole derivatives”, Tetrahedron Lett. 2024, 135, 154884.