Author: nw10design
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Han-Li Sun
he/him Linkedin Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Moore Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Han-Li was a postdoctoral associate in the Stache Lab from 2023 to 2026, where he worked on isocyanide copolymerization to make vitrimer networks.
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Yoon-Jung Jang
she/her Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Boydston Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison Yoon-Jung was a postdoctoral associate in the Stache Lab from 2023 to 2025, where she worked on photothermal depolymerization of commodity plastics.
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Sajjad Dadashi-Silab
he/him Website Current Position: Research Scientist at the University of Virginia in Biomedical Engineering Sajjad was a postdoctoral associate in the Stache Lab from 2021 to 2025, where he worked on methods in controlled radical polymerizations.
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Hanning Jiang
she/her hj8391@princeton.edu LinkedIn B.S., Purdue University, 2021 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2026 Hanning received her Ph.D. in 2026 for her work in photothermal plastic recycling and upcycling.
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Megan Matter
she/her mm9987@princeton.edu B.S., University of Florida, 2021 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2026 Megan received her Ph.D. in 2026 for her work on small-molecule synthesis methods using photothermal conversion.
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Cristina Preston-Herrera
she/her cp4278@princeton.edu LinkedIn B.S., Ball State University, 2018 M.A., Ball State University, 2021 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2025 Cristina received her Ph.D. in 2025 for her work in method development for controlled radical polymerizations.
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Rory Devin
he/him rd3996@princeton.edu B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023 4th Year Graduate Student Born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, Rory completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry/biophysics and mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. At RPI, he was involved in computational biophysics studies of collagen peptides with Dr. Makhatadze. He also spent 6 months working on…
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Selective Electrocatalytic Degradation of Ether-Containing Polymers
Jesse H. Hsu, Tyler E. Ball, Sewon Oh, Erin E. Stache, Brett P. Fors Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202316578 Communication
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Chemical Recycling to Monomer of Commercial Polymers Using Photothermal Conversion
Another strategy for polymer degradation being employed in the Stache lab is photothermal conversion mediated chemical recycling to monomer, wherein we leverage the photothermal effect exhibited by certain materials to generate intense heat gradients for at the surface of the excited agent. This heat, provided it is above the degradation and ceiling temperatures (Td and…
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Chemical Upcycling of Commercial Polymers via Photooxidative Degradation
Plastics are useful and ubiquitous in our society. However, they also raise environmental problems due to their persistence in nature. Thus, sustainable approaches to the valorization of plastic waste remain of utmost importance. In the Stache lab, we are developing mild photooxidative degradation methods to upcycle post-consumer plastic waste into commercially important chemical feedstocks. In…