Aaron J. Teator


Aaron J Teator
  • Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Office phone:
1137 GL (ISB)
1567 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, KS 66045

Education

Postdoctorate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
B.S., University of Nevada, Reno

Research

Selected Publications

Wekasinghe, K.; Castillo, S. A.; Bemis, J. R.; Teator, A. J.* Keteniminium-Mediated Post-Polymerization Modification: Unlocking Emergent Properties in Polyacrylamides. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2025, 147, 21302-21307. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04964

Zhu, H.; Jackson, T. A.; Teator, A. J.; Subramaniam, B.* Oxidative Functionalization of Solvent-Pretreated Polyethylene by Ozone. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.2025, 13, 4988-4996. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c09279

Wekasinghe, K., Teator, A.J.* Porphyrins pave the way to precision polymers. Nat. Synth.2023, 2, 811–812. DOI: 10.1038/s44160-023-00338-y

Varner, T. P.; Teator, A. J.; Reddi, Y.; Jacky, P. E.; Cramer, C. J.; Leibfarth, F. A. Mechanistic Insight into the Stereoselective Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 17175. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08254

Teator, A. J.; Varner, T. P.; Jacky, P. E.; Sheyko, K. A.; Leibfarth, F. A. Polar Thermoplastics with Tunable Physical Properties Enabled by the Stereoselective Copolymerization of Vinyl Ethers. ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8, 1559. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00802

Teator, A. J. and Leibfarth, F. A. Catalyst-Controlled Stereoselective Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers. Science 2019, 363, 1439. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1703

 

Awards & Honors

Sutton Family Research Impact Award
2025

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award
2025

3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2022

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Cottrell Fellowship
2020

ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Future Faculty Scholar
2019

UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence
2019