Elizabeth Elacqua
Professional Appointments and Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Office
535 Chemistry Building
University Park, PA 16802
Email: eze31@psu.edu
(814) 865-1221
Mailing Address
104 Chemistry Building
University Park, PA 16802
Education
B.S., Le Moyne College, 2006 (Chemistry and Biology)
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2012 (Supramolecular and Solid-State Organic Synthesis)
Postdoc, New York University, (Polymer Synthesis and Self-Assembly)
Honors and Awards
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2021)
NSF CAREER Award (2021)
Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2020)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Foundation Doctoral New Investigator Award (2019)
Selected Publications
Huss, S., Wu, S., Chen, B., Wang, T., Gerthoffer, M. C., Ryan, D. J., Smith, S. E., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J.V., and Elacqua,E. Scalable Synthesis of Crystalline One-Dimensional Carbon Nanothreads through Modest-Pressure Polymerization of Furan, ACS Nano, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10400.
Ackerman-Biegasiewicz, L. G. K., Arias-Rotondo, D. M., Biegasiewicz, K. F., Elacqua, E., Golder, M. R., Kayser, L. V., Lamb, J. R., Le, C. M., Romero, N. A., Wilkerson-Hill, S. M., and Williams, D. A. Organic Chemistry: A Retrosynthetic Approach to a Diverse Field, ACS Cent. Sci., 2020, 6, 1845-1850
Piane, J. J., Chamberlain, L. E., Huss, S., Alameda, L. T., Hoover, A. C., and Elacqua, E. Organic Photoredox-Catalyzed Cycloadditions Under Polymer Confinement, ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 13251-13256.
Gerthoffer, M. C., Wu, S., Chen, B., Wang, T., Huss, S., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V., and Elacqua, E. ‘Sacrificial’ Supramolecular Assembly and Pressure-Induced Polymerization: Toward Sequence-Defined Functionalized Nanothreads, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 11419-11424
Koehler, S. J., Hu, J., and Elacqua, E. Electronically Governed ROMP: Expanding Sequence Control for Donor-Acceptor Polymers, Synlett, 2020, 31, 1435-1442
Gray, C. L., Xu, P., Rothenberger, A. J., Koehler, S. J., Elacqua, E., Milosavljevic, B. H., and Mallouk, T. E. An Oligomeric Ruthenium Polypyridyl Dye for Improved Stability of Aqueous Photoelectrochemical Cells, J. Phys. Chem., C, 2020, 124, 3542-3550.
Elacqua, E. and Gregor, M. Poly(arylenevinylene)s through Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of an Unsymmetrical Donor-Acceptor Cyclophane, Angew. Chem., 2019, 131, 9627-9632; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 9527-9532.
Prior to Penn State
Elacqua, E., Geberth, G., Vanden Bout, D. A., and Weck, M. Synthesis and Folding Behavior of Poly(p-phenylenevinylene)-based β-sheet Polychromophores, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 2144-2152.
Pomarico, S. K., Lye, D. S., Elacqua, E., and Weck, M. Synthesis of Covalent Sheet-Coil-Helix and Coil-Sheet-Helix Block Copolymers through Sequential ROMP and Anionic Polymerization, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 5655-5659.
Elacqua, E., Zheng, X., Shillingford, C., Liu, M., and Weck, M. Molecular Recognition in the Colloidal World, Acc. Chem. Res., 2017, 50, 2756-2766.
Elacqua, E., Manning, K. B., Lye, D., Pomarico, S. K., Morgia, F., and Weck, M. Supramolecular Multiblock Copolymers Featuring Complex Secondary Structures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 12240-12250.
Elacqua, E., Croom, A., Manning, K. B., Pomarico, S. K., Lye, D., Young, L., and Weck, M. Supramolecular Diblock Copolymers Featuring Well-Defined Telechelic Building Blocks, Angew. Chem., 2016, 128, 16105-16110; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 15873-15878.
Elacqua, E. and Weck, M. Fabrication of Supramolecular Semiconductor Block Copolymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 7151-7158.
Elacqua, E., Lye, D. S., and Weck, M. Engineering Orthogonality in Supramolecular Polymers: From Simple Scaffolds to Complex Materials, Acc. Chem. Res., 2014, 47, 2405-2416.