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 —

Teator Research Group Poster

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