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Enrique Gomez

Interim Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion
Professor of Chemical Engineering

Affiliation(s):

  • Engineering Dean's Office
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion

Research Areas:

Energy and Environment

Interest Areas:

Focused on Connecting the Chemistry, Structure, and Macroscopic Properties of Complex Soft Matter: Polymers, organic electronics, organic solar cells, electron microscopy of soft materials

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, 2002
  • Ph D, Chemical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, 2007

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Mert Y. Sengul, Arnaud Ndayishimiye, Wonho Lee, Joo-Hwan Seo, Zhongming Fan, Yun Kyung Shin, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Clive A Randall, van Duin and Adri C. T., 2022, "Atomistic level aqueous dissolution dynamics of NASICON-Type Li1+xAlxTi2-x(PO4)(3) (LATP)", PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 24, (7), pp. 4125-4130
  • Del Mundo, Joshua T., Sintu Rongpipi, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Esther Gomez, 2022, "Characterization of biological materials with soft X-ray scattering", SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING, PT A, 677, pp. 357-383
  • Puja Agarwala, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2022, "Fast, Faithful Simulations of Donor-Acceptor Interface Morphology", JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
  • Haley L. Young, Connor R. McCormick, Auston G. Butterfield, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Raymond Schaak, 2022, "Postsynthetic Thiol-Induced Reshaping of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles", CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 34, (24), pp. 11014-11025
  • Shreya Shetty, Puja Agarwala, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2022, "Predicting mixing free energy using mutual ghosting", MOLECULAR SYSTEMS DESIGN & ENGINEERING, 7, (11), pp. 1529-1537
  • Abigail M. Fenton, Renxuan Xie, Melissa P. Aplan, Youngmin Lee, Michael G. Gill, Ryan Fair, Fabian Kempe, Michael Sommer, Chad R. Snyder, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Ralph Colby, 2022, "Predicting the Plateau Modulus from Molecular Parameters of Conjugated Polymers", ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE, 8, (2), pp. 268-274
  • Maged Abdelsamie, Thomas P. Chaney, Hongping Yan, Sebastian A. Schneider, I. Alperen Ayhan, Enrique Daniel Gomez, John R. Reynolds and Michael F. Toney, 2022, "Revealing temperature-dependent polymer aggregation in solution with small-angle X-ray scattering", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 10, (4), pp. 2096-2104
  • van der Vlies, Andre J., Jiayi Xu, Masoud Ghasemi, Carol Bator, Amanda Bell, Brett Rosoff-Verbit, Bin Liu, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Urara Hasegawa, 2022, "Thioether-Based Polymeric Micelles with Fine-Tuned Oxidation Sensitivities for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery", BIOMACROMOLECULES, 23, (1), pp. 77-88
  • Sepideh Zokaei, Donghyun Kim, Emmy Jarsvall, Abigail M. Fenton, Albree R. Weisen, Sandra Hultmark, Phong H. Nguyen, Amanda M. Matheson, Anja Lund, Renee Kroon, Michael L. Chabinyc, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Igor Zozoulenko and Christian Muller, 2022, "Tuning of the elastic modulus of a soft polythiophene through molecular doping", MATERIALS HORIZONS, 9, (1), pp. 433-443
  • Yilei Wu, Sebastian Schneider, Yue Yuan, Ryan M. Young, Tommaso Francese, Iram F. Mansoor, Peter J. Dudenas, Yusheng Lei, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Mark C. Lipke, Giulia Galli, Michael R. Wasielewski, John B Asbury, Michael F. Toney and Zhenan Bao, 2022, "Twisted A-D-A Type Acceptors with Thermally-Activated Delayed Crystallization Behavior for Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells", ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 12, (18)
  • T E Culp, B Khara, K P Brickey, M Geitner, J D Wilbur, S Jons, A Roy, M Paul, B Ganapathysubramanian, Andrew Zydney, Manish Kumar and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2021, "Nanoscale control of internal inhomogeneity enhances water transport in desalination membranes", Science, 371, (6524), pp. 72-75
  • B Kuei and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2021, "Pushing the limits of high-resolution polymer microscopy with antioxidants", Nature Communications, 12, pp. 153
  • J.-H. Seo, Z. Fan, H. Nakaya, R. Rajagopalan, Enrique Daniel Gomez, M. Iwasaki and C. A. Randall, 2021, "Cold Sintering, Enabling a Route to Co-sinter an All Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 60, pp. 037001
  • Qiyan Zhang, Xin Chen, Bing Zhang, Tian Zhang, Wengchang Lu, Zhe Chen, Ziyu Liu, Seong H Kim, Brian Donovan, Ronald J Warzoha, Enrique Daniel Gomez, J. Bernholc and Qiming Zhang, 2021, "High-temperature polymers with record-high breakdown strength enabled by rationally designed chain-packing behavior in blends", Matter, 4, (7), pp. 2448--2459
  • Taniya MSK Pathiranage, Ziyuan Ma, Chinthaka M Udamulle Gedara, Xiangcheng Pan, Youngmin Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Michael C Biewer, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Mihaela C Stefan, 2021, "Improved Self-Assembly of P3HT with Pyrene-Functionalized Methacrylates", ACS omega, 6, (41), pp. 27325--27334
  • Janna N Sloand, Tyler E Culp, Nichole M Wonderling, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott Medina, 2021, "Mechanomorphogenic Films Formed via Interfacial Assembly of Fluorinated Amino Acids", Advanced Functional Materials, 31, (40), pp. 2104223
  • Ryan A Fair, Renxuan Xie, Youngmin Lee, Ralph Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2021, "Molecular Weight Characterization of Conjugated Polymers Through Gel Permeation Chromatography and Static Light Scattering", ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3, (9), pp. 4572--4578
  • Shreya Shetty, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2021, "Predicting $\chi$ of Polymer Blends Using Atomistic Morphing Simulations", Macromolecules, 54, (22), pp. 10447--10455
  • Abigail M Fenton, Renxuan Xie, Melissa P Aplan, Youngmin Lee, Michael G Gill, Ryan Fair, Fabian Kempe, Michael Sommer, Chad R Snyder, Enrique Daniel Gomez and others, 2021, "Predicting the plateau modulus from molecular parameters of conjugated polymers", ACS Central Science
  • Jeffrey A Julien, Martin G Fernandez, Katrina M Brandmier, Joshua T Del Mundo, Carol M Bator, Lucie A Loftus, Esther Gomez, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Kerney Jebrell Glover, 2021, "Rapid preparation of nanodiscs for biophysical studies", Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 712, pp. 109051
  • Sintu Rongpipi, Joshua T Del Mundo, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Esther Gomez, 2021, "Resonant X-ray scattering of biological assemblies", MRS Communications, 11, (1), pp. 1--17
  • Van Der Vlies, Andr\'e J, Jiayi Xu, Masoud Ghasemi, Carol Bator, Amanda Bell, Brett Rosoff-Verbit, Bin Liu, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Urara Hasegawa, 2021, "Thioether-Based Polymeric Micelles with Fine-Tuned Oxidation Sensitivities for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery", Biomacromolecules
  • B H Smith, R Xie, D Adhikari, N J Podraza and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2020, "Characterization of chain alignment at buried interfaces using Mueller matrix spectroscopy", MRS Communications, 10, (2), pp. 292-297
  • R Xie, A R Weisen, Y Lee, M A Aplan, A M Fenton, A E Masucci, F Kempe, M Sommer, C W Pester, R H Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2020, "Glass Transition Temperature from the Chemical Structure of Conjugated Polymers", Nature Communications, 11, pp. 893
  • E R Luz, Enrique Daniel Gomez, J L Solis and M M Gomez, 2020, "Antibacterial Cotton Fabric Functionalized with Copper Oxide Nanoparticles", Molecules, 25, (24), pp. 5802
  • B Kuei, C Bator and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2020, "Imaging 0.36 nm lattice planes in conjugated polymers by minimizing beam damage", Macromolecules, 53, (19), pp. 8296-8302
  • J -H Seo, H Nakaya, Y Takeuchi, Z Fan, H Hikosakab, Enrique Daniel Gomez, M Iwasaki and C A Randall, 2020, "Broad Temperature Dependence, High Conductivity, and Structure-Property Relations of Cold Sintering of LLZO-based Composite Electrolytes", Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 40, (15), pp. 6241-6248
  • Thinh P. Le, Brandon H. Smith, Youngmin Lee, Joshua H Litofsky, Melissa P. Aplan, Brooke Kuei, Chenhui Zhu, Cheng Wang, Alexander Hexemer and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2020, "Enhancing Optoelectronic Properties of Conjugated Block Copolymers through Crystallization of Both Blocks", Macromolecules, 53, (6), pp. 1967-1976
  • Dan Ye, Sintu Rongpipi, Joshua H. Litofsky, Youngmin Lee, Tyler E. Culp, Sang Ha Yoo, Thomas N Jackson, Cheng Wang, Esther Gomez and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Aluminum oxide free-standing thin films to enable nitrogen edge soft x-ray scattering", MRS COMMUNICATIONS, 9, (1), pp. 224-228
  • Chao Lang, Dan Ye, Woochul Song, Chenhao Yao, Yu-ming Tu, Clara Capparelli, Jacob A. LaNasa, Michael A Hickner, Esther Gomez, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Robert Hickey and Manish Kumar, 2019, "Biomimetic Separation of Transport and Matrix Functions in Lamellar Block Copolymer Channel-Based Membranes", ACS NANO, 13, (7), pp. 8292-8302
  • Fritz Nuebling, Thomas R. Hopper, Brooke Kuei, Hartmut Komber, Viktoriia Untilova, Simon B. Schmidt, Martin Brinkmann, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Artem A. Bakulin and Michael Sommer, 2019, "Block Junction-Functionalized All-Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers", ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 11, (1), pp. 1143-1155
  • Wonho Lee, Christopher K. Lyon, Joo-Hwan Seo, Raymond Lopez-Hallman, Yongjun Leng, Chao-Yong Wang, Michael A Hickner, Clive A Randall and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Ceramic-Salt Composite Electrolytes from Cold Sintering", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 29, (20)
  • Joo-Hwan Seo, Kris Verlinde, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Thomas E Mallouk and Clive A Randall, 2019, "Cold sintering process for fabrication of a high volumetric capacity Li4Ti5O12 anode", MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS, 250
  • Dushanthi S. Dissanayake, Samodha S. Gunathilake, Gedara, Chinthaka M. Udamulle, Jia Du, Sang Ha Yoo, Youngmin Lee, Qing Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Michael C. Biewer and Mihaela C. Stefan, 2019, "Conductive triethylene glycol monomethyl ether substituted polythiophenes with high stability in the doped state", JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY, 57, (10), pp. 1079-1086
  • Melissa P. Aplan, Christopher Grieco, Youngmin Lee, Jason M. Munro, Wonho Lee, Jennifer L. Gray, Zach D. Seibers, Brooke Kuei, Joshua H. Litofsky, Kilbey, S. Michael, II, Qing Wang, Ismaila Dabo, John B Asbury and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Conjugated Block Copolymers as Model Systems to Examine Mechanisms of Charge Generation in Donor-Acceptor Materials", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 29, (1)
  • Thomas F. Harrelson, Varuni Dantanarayana, Xiaoyu Xie, Correy Koshnick, Dingqi Nai, Ryan Fair, Sean A. Nunez, Alan K. Thomas, Tucker L. Murrey, Michael A Hickner, John K. Grey, John E. Anthony, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Alessandro Troisi, Roland Faller and Adam J. Moule, 2019, "Direct probe of the nuclear modes limiting charge mobility in molecular semiconductors", MATERIALS HORIZONS, 6, (1), pp. 182-191
  • Dustin Veazey, Tim Hsu and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Enhancing resistance of poly(ether ketone ketone) to high-temperature steam through crosslinking and crystallization control", JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, 136, (27)
  • Brian J. Rohde, Tyler E. Culp, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Jan Ilavsky, Ramanan Krishnamoorti and Megan L. Robertson, 2019, "Nanostructured Thermoset/Thermoset Blends Compatibilized with an Amphiphilic Block Copolymer", MACROMOLECULES, 52, (8), pp. 3104-3114
  • Shreya Shetty, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2019, "Nematic Coupling in Polybutadiene from MD Simulations", MACROMOLECULES, 52, (2), pp. 528-534
  • Joshua H. Litofsky, Youngmin Lee, Melissa P. Aplan, Brooke Kuei, Alexander Hexemer, Cheng Wang, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Polarized Soft X-ray Scattering Reveals Chain Orientation within Nanoscale Polymer Domains", MACROMOLECULES, 52, (7), pp. 2803-2813
  • Wenlin Zhang, Joel H. Bornbile, Albree R. Weisen, Renxuan Xie, Ralph Colby, Michaelj Janik, Scott T Milner and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Thermal Fluctuations Lead to Cumulative Disorder and Enhance Charge Transport in Conjugated Polymers", MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, 40, (15)
  • Sintu Rongpipi, Dan Ye, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Esther Gomez, 2019, "Progress and Opportunities in the Characterization of Cellulose - An Important Regulator of Cell Wall Growth and Mechanics", FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 9
  • J Dai, W Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez and N Yamamoto, 2019, "Demonstrating low-temperature sintering of boron carbide powders", International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science, 1, (4), pp. 178-184
  • M P Spencer, W Lee, A Alsaati, C M Breznak, R B Nogueira Branco, J Dai, Enrique Daniel Gomez, A Marconnet, P von Lockette and N Yamamoto, 2019, "Cold sintering to form bulk maghemite for characterization beyond magnetic properties", International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science, 1, (3), pp. 119-124
  • J H Litofsky and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2019, "Connecting soft X-ray anisotropy with local order in conjugated polymers", MRS Communications, 9, (4), pp. 1168-1173
  • Renxuan Xie, Ralph Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Connecting the Mechanical and Conductive Properties of Conjugated Polymers", Advanced Electronic Materials, 4, pp. 1700356
  • Zach D Seibers, Thinh P Le, Youngmin Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez and S M Kilbey, 2018, "Impact of Low Molecular Weight Poly(3-hexylthiophene)s as Additives in Organic Photovoltaic Devices", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10, pp. 2752-2761
  • Pengfei Zhan, Wenlin Zhang, Ian E Jacobs, David M Nisson, Renxuan Xie, Albree R Weissen, Ralph Colby, Adam J Moule, Scott T Milner, Janna K Maranas and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Side Chain Length Affects Backbone Dynamics in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)s", Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 56, (17), pp. 1193-1202
  • Wenlin Zhang, Scott T Milner and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Nematic order imposes molecular weight effect on charge transport in conjugated polymers", ACS Central Science, 4, (3), pp. 413-421
  • Chao Lang, Yue-Xiao Shen, Jacob A LaNasa, Dan Ye, Woochul Song, Tawanda J Zimudzi, Michael A Hickner, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Esther Gomez, Manish Kumar and Robert Hickey, 2018, "Creating Cross-Linked Lamellar Block Copolymer Supporting Layers for Biomimetic Membranes", Faraday Discussions, 209, pp. 179-191
  • Dan Ye, Sarah N Kiemle, Sintu Rongpipi, Xuan Wang, Cheng Wang, Daniel J Cosgrove, Esther Gomez and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Resonant soft X-ray scattering reveals cellulose microfibril spacing in plant primary cell walls", Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 12449
  • Tyler E Culp, Dan Ye, Mou Paul, Abhishek Roy, Michael Behr, Steve Jons, Steve Rosenberg, Cheng Wang, Esther Gomez, Manish Kumar and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Probing the internal microstructure of polyamide thin-film composite membranes using resonant soft X-ray scattering", ACS Macro Letters, 7, pp. 927
  • Shixin Huang, Mohamadamin Makarem, Sarah Kiemle, Yunzhen Zheng, Xin He, Dan Ye, Esther Gomez, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Daniel J Cosgrove and Seong H Kim, 2018, "Dehydration-induced physical strains of cellulose microfibrils in plant cell walls", Carbohydrate Polymers, 197, (1), pp. 337-348
  • Yun Kyung Shin, Mert Y Sengul, A. S. M Jonayat, Wonho Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Clive A Randall and Adrianus C van Duin, 2018, "Development of a ReaxFF reactive force field for lithium ion conducting solid electrolyte Li1+xAlxTi2-x(PO4)3 (LATP)", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, pp. 22134-22147
  • Dan Ye, Thinh P Le, Brooke Kuei, Chenhui Zhu, Peter H Zwart, Cheng Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Esther Gomez, 2018, "Resonant soft X-ray scattering provides protein structure with chemical specificity", Structure, 26, (11), pp. 1513-1521
  • Tyler E Culp, Y X Shen, Michael Geitner, Mou Paul, Abhishek Roy, Michael J Behr, Steve Rosenberg, Junsi Gu, Manish Kumar and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Electron tomography reveals details of the internal microstructure of desalination membranes", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, (35), pp. 8694-8699
  • Youngmin Lee, Melissa P Aplan, Zach D Seibers, Cheng Wang, Alexander Hexemer, S M Kilbey, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Random copolymers allow control of crystallization and microphase separation in fully conjugated block copolymers", Macromolecules, 51, (21), pp. 8844-8852
  • Melissa P Aplan, Yongmin Lee, Carly A Wilkie, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Push-pull architecture eliminates chain length effects on exciton dissociation", Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6, pp. 22758-22767
  • Chandima Bulumulla, Ruwan Gunawardhana, Sang Ha Yoo, Cody R Mills, Ruvanthi V Kularatne, Thomas N Jackson, Michael C Biewer, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Mihaela C Stefan, 2018, "The Effect of Single Atom Replacement on Organic Thin Film Transistors: Case of Thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole vs. Furo[3,2-b]pyrrole", Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, pp. 10050-10058
  • Brooke Kuei, Bernd Kabius and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Strategies for elemental mapping from energy-filtered TEM of polymeric materials", MRS Communications, 8, (3), pp. 1321-1327
  • Melissa P Aplan, Jason M Munro, Youngmin Lee, Alyssa N Brigeman, Christopher Grieco, Qing Wang, Noel C Giebink, Ismaila Dabo, John B Asbury and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Revealing the Importance of Energetic and Entropic Contributions to the Driving Force for Charge Photogeneration", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10, (46), pp. 39933-39941
  • Renxuan Xie, Melissa P Aplan, Nicholas J Caggiano, Albree R Weisen, Tang Su, Christian Muller, Mo Segad, Ralph Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2018, "Local Chain Alignment via Nematic Ordering Reduces Chain Entanglement in Conjugated Polymers", Macromolecules, 51, (24), pp. 10271-10284
  • Jared S Price, Baomin Wang, Taehwan Kim, Alex J Grede, Jesse Sandoval, Renxuan Xie, Yufei Shen, Dillon Adams, Michael J Eller, Anatoliy Sokolov, Peter Trefonas, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Emile A Schweikert and Noel C Giebink, 2018, "Fluoropolymer-diluted Small Molecule Organic Semiconductor Composites with High Thermal Stability", Applied Physics Letters, 113, pp. 263302
  • T Cooksey, A Singh, K Lee, S Wang, E Kelley, L He, S Vaijala Kesava, Enrique Daniel Gomez, B Kidd, L Madsen and M Robertson, 2017, "Tuning Biocompatible Block Copolymer Micelles by Varying Solvent Composition: Core/Corona Structure and Solvent Uptake", Macromolecules, 50, pp. 4322-4334
  • D Zhao, V Gimenez-Pinto, L Zhao, J Jestin, S K Kumar, B Kuei, Enrique Daniel Gomez, L Zhang, C C Chang, A S Prasad, L S Schadler, M M Khani and B C Benicewicz, 2017, "Active Nanoscale Particle Ordering by Polymer Crystallization", ACS Central Science, 3, pp. 751-758
  • M A Kelly, S Rolald, Q Zhang, Y Lee, B Kabius, Q Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez, D Neher and W You, 2017, "Incorporating Fluorine Substitution into Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells: Three Different Means, Same Results", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, pp. 2059
  • D J Follmer, S E Zappe, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Esther Gomez and S E Haydt, 2017, "Changing the Conversation: Impact of a Seminar-Based Classroom Innovation on Student Perceptions of Engineering", International Journal of Engineering Education, 33 (2A), pp. 519-526
  • D M Veazey, T Hsu and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Next Generation High Performance Long Fiber Thermoplastic Composites", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 134, pp. 44441
  • B Kuei and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Chain conformations and phase behavior of conjugated polymers", Soft Matter, 13, pp. 49
  • Melissa Aplan and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Recent Developments in Chain-Growth Polymerizations of Conjugated Polymers", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56, pp. 7888–7901
  • Wenlin Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2017, "Predicting Flory-Huggins c Predicting Flory-Huggins chi from Simulations", Physical Review Letters, 119, pp. 017801
  • Renxuan Xie, Youngmin Lee, Melissa Aplan, Nicholas Caggiano, Christian Muller, Ralph Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Glass Transition Temperature of Conjugated Polymers by Oscillatory Shear Rheometry", Macromolecules, 50, pp. 5146–5154
  • Chris Grieco, Grayson Doucette, Jason M Munro, Eric R Kennehan, Youngmin Lee, Adam Rimshaw, Marcia Payne, Nicole Wonderling, John E Anthony, Ismaila Dabo, Enrique Daniel Gomez and John B Asbury, 2017, "Triplet Transfer Mediates Triplet Pair Separation During Singlet Fission in TIPS-Pentacene", Advanced Functional Materials, 27, pp. 1703929
  • Youngmin Lee, Melissa P Aplan, Zach D Seibers, S Michael Kilbey, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Tuning the synthesis of fully conjugated block copolymers to minimize architectural heterogeneity", Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5, pp. 20412-20421
  • Renxuan Xie, Ralph Colby and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Connecting the Mechanical and Conductive Properties of Conjugated Polymers", Advanced Electronic Materials, pp. 170056
  • Brandon Smith, Qianqian Zhang, Mary A Kelly, Joshua H Litofsky, Dinesh Kumar, Alexander Hexemer, Wei You and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2017, "Fluorination of Donor-Acceptor Copolymer Active Layers Enhance Charge Mobilities in Thin-Film Transistors", ACS Macro Letters, 6, (10), pp. 1162-1167
  • Chad Snyder and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2016, "Phase Behavior of Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)", Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 54, pp. 1202
  • Wenlin Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2016, "Surface Induced Chain Alignment of Semiflexible Polymers", Macromolecules, 49, pp. 963
  • Chris Grieco, Melissa Aplan, Adam Rimshaw, Youngmin Lee, Thinh Le, Wenlin Zhang, Qing Wang, Scott T Milner, Enrique Daniel Gomez and John B Asbury, 2016, "Molecular Rectification in Conjugated Block Copolymer Photovoltaics", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 6978
  • Changhe Guo, Youngmin Lee, Yen-Hao Lin, Joseph Strzalka, Cheng Wang, Alex Hexemer, Cherno Jaye, Daniel Fischer, Rafael Verduzco, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2016, "Photovoltaic performance of block copolymer devices is independent of the crystalline texture in the active layer", Macromolecules, 49, pp. 4599
  • Wenlin Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2016, "Using surface-induced ordering to probe the isotropic-to-nematic transition for semiflexible polymers", Soft Matter, 12, pp. 6141
  • Shu Wang, Renxuan Xie, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Eric Cochran and Megan Robertson, 2016, "Close-Packed Spherical Morphology in an ABA Triblock Copolymer Aligned with Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear", Macromolecules, 49, pp. 4875
  • Changyeon Lee, Yuxiang Li, Wonho Lee, Youngmin Lee, Joonhyeong Choi, Taesu Kim, Cheng Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Han Young Woo and Bumjoon Kim, 2016, "Correlation between Phase-Separated Domain Sizes of Active Layer and Photovoltaic Performances in All-Polymer Solar Cells", Macromolecules, 49, pp. 5051
  • Kiarash Vakhshouri, Brandon Smith, Edwin Chan, Chenchen Wang, Alberto Salleo, Cheng Wang, Alex Hexemer and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2016, "Signatures of intracrystalline and intercrystalline limitations of charge transport in polythiophenes", Macromolecules, 49, pp. 7359
  • Jwala Adhikari, Matt Gadinski, Kaige Sun, Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Elissei Iagodkine, Alejandro Briseno, Thomas N Jackson, Qing Wang and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2016, "Controlling Chain Conformations of High-k Fluoropolymer Dielectrics to Enhance Charge Mobilities in Rubrene Single Crystal Field Effect Transistors", Advanced Materials, 28, pp. 10095
  • Brandon Smith, Michael Clark, Hao Kuang, Chris Grieco, Alex Larsen, Chenhui Zhu, Cheng Wang, Alex Hexemer, John B Asbury, Michael J Janik and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Controlling polymorphism in poly(3-hexylthiophene) through addition of ferrocene for enhanced charge mobilities in thin-film transistors", Advanced Functional Materials, 25, pp. 542
  • Hao Kuang, and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Quantifying the Role of Interfacial Width on Intermolecular Charge Recombination in Block Copolymer Photovoltaics", Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 53, pp. 1224
  • Wenlin Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2015, "Predicting Nematic Phases of Semiflexible Polymers", Macromolecules, 48, pp. 1454
  • Yufei Jia, Yixin Yan, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Noel Giebink, 2015, "Passive parity-time symmetry in organic thin film waveguides", ACS Photonics, 2, pp. 319
  • Youngmin Lee and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Challenges and opportunities in the development of conjugated block copolymers for photovoltaics", Macromolecules, 48, pp. 7385
  • Jorge Mok, Yen-Hao Lin, Kevin Yager, Aditya Mohite, Wanyi Nie, Seth Darling, Youngmin Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez, David Gosztola, Richard Schaller and Rafael Verduzco, 2015, "Linking group influences charge separation and recombination in all-conjugated block copolymer photovoltaics", Advanced Functional Materials, 25, pp. 5578
  • Thinh Le, Zhengrong Shang, Lizhu Wang, Nanwen Li, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Joseph O'Connor, Ying Chang, Chulsung Bae, Chenhui Zhu, Alexander Hexemer, Esther Gomez, Alberto Salleo, Michael A Hickner and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Miscibility and acid strength govern contact doping of organic photovoltaics with strong polyelectrolytes", Macromolecules, 48, pp. 5162
  • Jwala Adhikari, Kiarash Vakh, Brandon D Calitree, Alex Hexemer, Michael A Hickner and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Controlling crystallization to Improve Charge Mobilities in Transistors Based on 2,7-Dioctyl[1]benzothiophene[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene", Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, pp. 8799
  • Changhe Guo, Frances Allen, Youngmin Lee, Thinh P Le, Chengyu Song, Jim Ciston, Andrew M Minor and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2015, "Probing Local Electronic Transitions in Organic Semiconductors through Energy-Loss Spectrum Imaging in the Transmission Electron Microscope", Advanced Functional Materials, 25, pp. 6071
  • S V Kesava, Z Fei, A D Rimshaw, C Wang, A Hexemer, J A Asbury, M Heeney and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2014, "Domain compositions and fullerene aggregation govern charge photogeneration in polymer/fullerene solar cells", Advanced Energy Materials, 4(11), pp. 1400116
  • G Mor, K Vakhshouri and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2014, "Elemental mapping at the cathode-semiconductor interface of organic solar cells", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, pp. 23
  • Z Mao, T P Le, K Vakhshouri, R Fernando, F Ruan, Enrique Daniel Gomez and G Sauve, 2014, "Processing additives suppresses phase separation in the active layer of organic photovoltaics based on perylene diimide", Organic Electronics, 15, pp. 3384-3391
  • Z Mao, W Senevirathna, J Y Liao, J Gu, S V Kesava, C Guo, Enrique Daniel Gomez and G Suave, 2014, "Three-dimensional non-fullerene acceptors for solution-processed organic photovoltaics", Advanced Materials, 26, pp. 6290-6294
  • W. L. Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Scott T Milner, 2014, "Predicting Chain Dimensions of Semiflexible Polymers from Dihedral Potentials", Macromolecules, 47, (18), pp. 6453-6461
  • H Wang, J M Mativetsky, Y Ren, Enrique Daniel Gomez, C Jaye, J Schwartz, D A Fischer and Y Loo, 2014, "Fluorinated and hydrogenated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on anodes: Effects of SAM chemistry on device characteristics of polymer solar cells", Organic Electronics, 15(11), pp. 3333-3340
  • J Moll, S K Kumar, F Snijkers, R Pasquino, D Vlassopoulos, A Rungta, B C Benicewicz, Enrique Daniel Gomez, J Illavsky and R H Colby, 2013, "Can Flow Disperse Nanoparticles into Polymer Melts", ACS Macro Letters, 2, pp. 1051-1055
  • K Vakhshouri, S V Kesava, D R Kozub and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2013, "Characterization of the mesoscopic structure in the photoactive layer of organic solar cells: a focused review", Materials Letters, 90, pp. 97-102
  • C Guo, Y H Lin, M D Witman, K Smith, C Wang, A Hexemer, J Strzalka, Enrique Daniel Gomez and R Verduzco, 2013, "Conjugated block copolymer photovoltaics with near 3% efficiency through microphase separation", Nano Letters, 13, pp. 2957-2963
  • S V Kesava, R Dhanker, D R Kozub, K Vakhshouri, U H Choi, R H Colby, C Wang, A Hexemer, N C Giebink and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2013, "Mesoscopic structural length scales in P3HT/PCBM mixtures remain invariant for various processing conditions", Chemistry of Materials, 25, pp. 2812-2818
  • C Guo, D R Kozub, S V Kesava, C Wang, A Hexemer and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2013, "Signatures of multiphase formation in the active layer of organic solar cells from Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering", ACS Macro Letters, 2, pp. 185-189
  • S Wang, S V Kesava, Enrique Daniel Gomez and M L Robertson, 2013, "Sustainable thermoplastic elastomers derived from fatty acids", Macromolecules, 46, pp. 103-112
  • Z Mao, K Vakhshouri, C Jaye, D A Fischer, R Fernando, D M DeLongchamp, Enrique Daniel Gomez and G Sauve, 2013, "Synthesis of Perfluoroalkyl End-Functionalized Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and the Effect of Fluorinated End Groups on Solar Cell Performance", Macromolecules, 46, pp. 103-112
  • H Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Z Guan, C Jaye, M F Toney, D A Fischer, A Kahn and Y L Loo, 2013, "Tuning contact recombination and open-circuit voltage in polymer solar cells via self-assembled monolayer adsorption at the organic-metal oxide interface", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117, pp. 20474-20484
  • X Liu, K S Jeong, B P Williams, K Vakhshouri, C Guo, K Han, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Q Wang and J B Asbury, 2013, "Tuning the dielectric properties of organic semiconductors via salt doping", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117, pp. 15866-15874
  • C Wang, J Rivnay, S Himmelberger, K Vakhshouri, M F Toney, Enrique Daniel Gomez and A Salleo, 2013, "Ultra-thin body poly(3-hexylthiophene) transistors with improved short-channel performance", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 5, pp. 2342-2346
  • D R Kozub, K Vakhshouri, S V Kesava, C Wang, A Hexemer and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2012, "Direct measurements of exciton diffusion length limitations of organic solar cell performance", Chemical Communications, 48, pp. 5859-5861
  • K Vakhshouri and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2012, "Effect of crystallization kinetics on microstructure and charge transport of polythiophenes", Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 33, pp. 2133-2137
  • K Vakhshouri, D R Kozub, C Wang, A Salleo and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2012, "Effect of Miscibility and Percolation on Electron Transport in Amorphous Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)/Phenyl-C61-Butyric Acid Methyl Ester Blends", Physical Review Letters, 108, pp. 026601-026605
  • R D Pensack, C Guo, K Vakhshouri, Enrique Daniel Gomez and J B Asbury, 2012, "Influence of Acceptor Structure on Barriers to Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Materials", The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, (7), pp. 4824-4831
  • J D Wilbur, Enrique Daniel Gomez, M W Ellsworth, B A Garetz and N P Balsara, 2012, "Thermoreversible changes in aligned and crosslinked block copolymer melts studied by two color depolarized light scattering", Macromolecules, 45, (18), pp. 7590-7598
  • Enrique Daniel Gomez, Katherine P Barteau, He Wang, Michael F Toney and Yueh-Lin Loo, 2011, "Correlating the scattered intensities of P3HT and PCBM to the current densities of polymer solar cells", Chemical Communications, 47, pp. 436-438
  • H Wang, Enrique Daniel Gomez, J Kim, Z Guan, C Jaye, D A Fischer, A Kahn and Y L Loo, 2011, "Device characteristics of bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells are independent of interfacial segregation of active layers", Chemistry of Materials, 23, pp. 2020-2023
  • Enrique Daniel Gomez, D Kozub, K Vakhshouri, L Orme, C Wang and A Hexemer, 2011, "Organic solar cells: to mix or not to mix"
  • D K Kozub, K Vakhshouri, L M Orme, C Wang, A Hexemer and Enrique Daniel Gomez, 2011, "Polymer crystallization of partially miscible polythiophene/fullerene mixtures controls morphology", Macromolecules, 44, pp. 5722-5726
  • J E Yoo, K S Lee, A Garcia, J T Tarver, Enrique Daniel Gomez, K Baldwin, Y Sun, H Meng, T Q Nguyen and Y L Loo, 2010, "Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics", 107, pp. 5712-5717
  • Enrique Daniel Gomez and Y L Loo, 2010, "Engineering the organic semiconductor-electrode interface in polymer solar cells", Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20, pp. 6604-6611
  • C S Kim, L L Tinker, B F DiSalle, Enrique Daniel Gomez, S Lee, S Bernhard and Y L Loo, 2009, "Altering the thermodynamics of phase separation in inverted bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells", Advanced Materials, 21, pp. 3110-3115
  • S S Lee, C S Kim, Enrique Daniel Gomez, M F Toney, C Wang, A Hexemer, J E Anthony and J L Loo, 2009, "Controlling Nucleation and Grain Growth in Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors for Thin-Film Transistors", Advanced Materials, 21, pp. 3605-3609
  • Enrique Daniel Gomez, A Panday, E H Feng, V Chen, G M Stone, A M Minor, C Kisielowski, K H Downing, O Borodin, G D Smith and N P Balsara, 2009, "Effect of ion distribution on conductivity of block copolymer electrolytes", Nano Letters, 9, pp. 1212-1216
  • A Panday, S Mullin, Enrique Daniel Gomez, N Wanakule, V L Chen, A Hexemer, A Pople and N P Balsara, 2009, "Effect of Molecular Weight and Salt Concentration on Conductivity of Block Copolymer Electrolytes", Macromolecules, 42, pp. 4632-4637
  • C S Kim, S S Lee, Enrique Daniel Gomez, J B Kim and Y L Loo, 2009, "Transient photovoltaic behavior of air-stable, inverted organic solar cells with solution-processed electron transport layer", Applied Physics Letters, 94, pp. 113302-113304
  • D Ye, S Rongpipi, S N Kiemle, W J Barnes, A M Chaves, C Zhu, V A Norman, A Liebman-Peláez, A Hexemer, M F Toney, A W Roberts, C T Anderson, D J Cosgrove, E W Gomez and Enrique Daniel Gomez, , "Preferred crystallographic orientation of cellulose in primary plant cell walls", Nature Communications, 11, pp. 4720

Conference Proceedings

  • Sarah E Zappe, Enrique Daniel Gomez, Scott T Milner and Yu Xia, 2021, "Work in Progress: Evaluation of a Remote Undergraduate Research Experience in Chemical Engineering"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Cooperative Research Award, American Chemical Society, October 2022
  • Arthur K. Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society, August 2020

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