Selective Binding of Rare-Earth Ions in Polymerizable Cages

Jou-Tsen Ou and Mercedes K. Taylor.* Chemical Communications, 2025. DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05827E

Structural Effects on Solubility and Crystallinity in Polyamide Ionomers

Jou-Tsen Ou, Margaret K. Brown, Jason D. Kaff, Rhys W. Hughes, Dale L. Huber, Brent S. Sumerlin, Karen I. Winey and Mercedes K. Taylor.* ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c02012

Temperature-Dependent Structural Dynamics in Covalent Organic Frameworks Observed by Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy

Silas O. Frimpong, Nathan McLane, Matthew Dietrich, Garrison A. Bauer, Michael R. Baptiste, Leah G. Dodson,* and Mercedes K. Taylor.* Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 26, 22252. 

Linkage Transformations in a Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework for High-Capacity Adsorption of Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Andrea N. Zeppuhar, Devin S. Rollins, Dale L. Huber, Emmanuel A. Bazan-Bergamino, Fu Chen, Hayden A. Evans, and Mercedes K. Taylor.* ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023, 15, 52622. 

Carbonyl-Rich Porous Organic Polymers for Cobalt Adsorption from Water

Min Chieh Yang, Devin S. Rollins, Dale L. Huber, Jou-Tsen Ou, Michael R. Baptiste, Andrea N. Zeppuhar, Fu Chen, and Mercedes K. Taylor.* Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2023, 11, 15541.

35+1 Challenges in Materials Science Being Tackled by PIs Under 35(ish) in 2023

Monica Allen, Kwabena Bediako, William J. Bowman, Michelle Calabrese, Lucas Caretta, Rose K. Cersonsky, Wen Chen, Santiago Correa, Rachel Davidson, Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Carissa N. Eisler, Ariel Furst, Ting Ge, Andrew Hook, Yi-Ting Hsu, Chunjing Jia, Jianfeng Lu, Alessandro Lunghi, Marco S. Messina, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Eva Nichols, Reshma Rao, Martin Seifrid, Katherine Emily Shulenberger, Alexandr N. Simonov, Xiao Su, Dayne F. Swearer, Evelyn Tang, Mercedes K. Taylor, Helen Tran, Gustavo F. Trindade, Ryan Truby, Hendrik Utzat, Ying Yang, Daryl W. Yee, Shenlong Zhao, and Steve Cranford.* Matter, 2023, 6, 2480.

Nanoscale Layers of Precise Ion-Containing Polyamides with Lithiated Phenyl Sulfonate in the Polymer Backbone

Jinseok Park, Charles P. Easterling, Christopher C. Armstrong, Dale L. Huber, Jared I. Bowman, Brent S. Sumerlin, Karen I. Winey,* and Mercedes K. Taylor.* Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 5811.

Activation of Mitochondrial TRAP1 Stimulates Mitochondria-Lysosome Crosstalk and Correction of Lysosomal Dysfunction

Fannie W. Chen, Joanna P. Davies, Raul Calvo, Jagruti Chaudhari, Georgia Dolios, Mercedes K. Taylor, Samarjit Patnaik, Jean Dehdashti, Rebecca Mull, Patricia Dranchack, Amy Wang, Xin Xu, Emma Hughes, Noel Southall, Marc Ferrer, Rong Wang, Juan J. Marugan,* and Yiannis A. Ioannou.* iScience, 2022, 25, 104941.

Templated Synthesis Enhances the Cobalt Adsorption Capacity of a Porous Organic Polymer

Devin S. Rollins, Charles P. Easterling, Andrea N. Zeppuhar, Jacob A. Krawchuck, Timothy A. Dreier, John Watt, Dale L. Huber, and Mercedes K. Taylor.* Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 299.

Ion-Capture Electrodialysis Using Multifunctional Adsorptive Membranes

Adam A. Uliana, Ngoc T. Bui, Jovan Kamcev, Mercedes K. Taylor, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Science, 2021, 372, 296.

Homocoupling Reactions of Azoles and their Applications in Coordination Chemistry

Steffen B. Mogensen, Mercedes K. Taylor, and Ji-Woong Lee.* Molecules, 2020, 25, 5950.

Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Homocoupling of Pyrazole Boronic Esters to Access Versatile Bipyrazoles and the Flexible Metal–Organic Framework Co(4,4′-bipyrazolate)

Mercedes K. Taylor, Martin Juhl, Gul Barg Hadaf, Dasol Hwang, Ever Velazquez, Julia Oktawiec, Jonathan B. Lefton, Tomcě Runčevski, Jeffrey R. Long,* and Ji-Woong Lee.* Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 1195.

A Single‐Ion Conducting Borate Network Polymer as a Viable Quasi‐Solid Electrolyte for Lithium Metal Batteries

Dong-Myeong Shin, Jonathan E. Bachman, Mercedes K. Taylor, Jovan Kamcev, Jesse G. Park, Michael E. Ziebel, Ever Velazquez, Nanette N. Jarenwattananon, Gurmukh K. Sethi, Yi Cui, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 1905771.

Light Hydrocarbon Separations Using Porous Organic Framework Materials

Shuhao Zhang, Mercedes K. Taylor, Lingchang Jiang,* Prof. Hao Ren,* and Prof. Guangshan Zhu. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2019, 26, 3205.

Iron Capture in a Functionalized Porous Polymer Applied to Remediation and Detection in Environmental Water Samples

Sumin Lee, Adam Uliana, Mercedes K. Taylor, Khetpakorn Chakarawet, Siva Rama Satyam Bandaru, Sheraz Gul, Jun Xu, Cheri M. Ackerman, Ruchira Chatterjee, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Junko Yano, Ashok Gadgil, Gary J. Long, Fernande Grandjean, Jeffrey R. Long,* and Christopher J. Chang.* Chemical Science, 2019, 10, 6651.

Functionalized Porous Aromatic Frameworks as High-Performance Adsorbents for the Rapid Removal of Boric Acid from Water

Jovan Kamcev, Mercedes K. Taylor, Dong-Myeong Shin, Nanette N. Jarenwattananon, Kristen A. Colwell, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1808927.

Identification, Design and Synthesis of Novel Pyrazolopyridine Influenza Virus NS1 Antagonists

Samarjit Patnaik, Dipanwita Basu, Noel Southall, Seameen Dehdashti, Kanny K. Wan, Wei Zheng, Marc Ferrer-Alegre, Mercedes K. Taylor, Daniel A. Engel, and Juan J. Marugan.* Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2019, 29, 1113.

Influence of Metal Substitution on the Pressure-Induced Phase Change in Flexible Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

C. Michael McGuirk, Tomcě Runčevski, Julia Oktawiec, Ari Turkiewicz, Mercedes K. Taylor, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 15924.

Near-Perfect CO2/CH4 Selectivity Achieved Through Reversible Guest Templating in the Flexible Metal–Organic Framework Co(bdp)

Mercedes K. Taylor, Tomcě Runcěvski, Julia Oktawiec, Jonathan E. Bachman, Rebecca L. Siegelman, Henry Z. H. Jiang, Jarad A. Mason, Jacob D. Tarver, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 10324.

Tuning the Adsorption-Induced Phase Change in the Flexible Metal–Organic Framework Co(bdp)

Mercedes K. Taylor, Tomcě Runcěvski, Julia Oktawiec, Miguel I. Gonzalez, Rebecca L. Siegelman, Jarad A. Mason, Jinxing Ye, Craig M. Brown, and Jeffrey R. Long.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138, 15019.

Methane Storage in Flexible Metal–Organic Frameworks with Intrinsic Thermal Management

Jarad A. Mason, Julia Oktawiec, Mercedes K. Taylor, Matthew R. Hudson, Julien Rodriguez, Jonathan E. Bachman, Miguel I. Gonzalez, Antonio Cervellino, Antonietta Guagliardi, Craig M. Brown, Philip L. Llewellyn, Norberto Masciocchi and Jeffrey R. Long.* Nature 2015, 527, 357.

Discovery, Optimization, and Characterization of Novel D2 Dopamine Receptor Selective Antagonists

Jingbo Xiao, R. Benjamin Free, Elena Barnaeva, Jennie L. Conroy, Trevor Doyle, Brittney Miller, Marthe Bryant-Genevier, Mercedes K. Taylor, Xin Hu, Andres E. Dulcey, Noel Southall, Marc Ferrer, Steve Titus, Wei Zheng, David R. Sibley, and Juan J. Marugan.* Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2014, 57, 3450.