Roddel Remy

Education

• Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware (2016)
• B.S. Physics, Lincoln University, PA (2010)

Academic Positions

• 2026 - Present, Senior Research Scientist, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
• 2018 - 2026, Research Scientist, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
• 2016 - 2018, Scientist, Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• 2010 - 2016, Graduate Research Assistant, Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Research Interests

• Characterization of polymers, polymer composites and soft material systems
• Advanced thermal analysis

Selected Articles in Journals

• Osti, N. C., Remy, R. A., Ehrhardt, D. A., Hensley, D. K., Chen, J., Mamontov, E., Advincula, R., & Nguyen, N. A. (2025). Sustainable Shape Memory Elastomers with Reduced Melt Viscosity and Enhanced Stiffness. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 7(4), 2554–2566
• Osti, N. C., Remy, R. A., Mamontov, E., Advincula, R., & Nguyen, N. A. (2024). Designing a Dynamic Material via Interlocking Kraft Lignin with Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Poly(ethylene oxide). ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 6(19), 11877-11888
• Neves, E. R., Anand, A., Mueller, J., Remy, R. A., Xu, H., Selting, K. A., Sarkaria, J. N., Harley, B. A., & Pedron‐Haba, S. (2024). Targeting Glioblastoma Tumor Hyaluronan to Enhance Therapeutic Interventions that Regulate Metabolic Cell Properties. Advanced Therapeutics, 7(10)
• Luo, M., Brown, J. R., Remy, R. A., Scott, D. M., Mackay, M. E., Hall, L. M., Epps, T. H. Determination of Interfacial Mixing in Tapered Block Polymer Thin Films: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations. Macromolecules 49, 5213-5222 (2016)
• Remy, R., Wei, S., Campos, L. M. & Mackay, M. E. Three-Phase Morphology of Semicrystalline Polymer Semiconductors: A Quantitative Analysis. ACS Macro Letters 4, 1051-1055 (2015)
• Liu, S., Zhang, H., Remy, R. A., Deng, F., Mackay, M. E., Fox, J. M., Jia, X. Meter-Long Multiblock Copolymer Microfibers Via Interfacial Bioorthogonal Polymerization. Advanced Materials 27, 2783-90 (2015)
• Kuan, W.-F., Remy, R., Mackay, M. E. & Epps, III, T. H. Controlled ionic conductivity via tapered block polymer electrolytes. RSC Advances 5, 12597-12604 (2015)
• Remy, R., Weiss, E. D., Nguyen, N. A., Wei, S., Campos, L. M., Kowalewski, T., Mackay, M. E. Enthalpy of fusion of poly(3-hexylthiophene) by differential scanning calorimetry. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 52, 1469-1475 (2014)