Activities: Teaching and Research Assistant Project: Degradable polymers via catalytic living ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP)• Developed a new catalytic living ROMP mechanism exploiting the regioselectivity and high metathesis activity of vinyl ethers as chain transfer agents.• It reduces the required amount of ruthenium complex than traditional living ROMP (up to 200 times.)• It makes the process more cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. Project: Catalytic Living ROMP: Block Copolymers from Macro-Chain Transfer Agents• A versatile method is developed providing a sustainable pathway toward the catalytic synthesis of different metathesis-based degradable block copolymers.• Synthesized degradable Polyethylene glycol (PEG)/Polycaprolactone (PCL)/Polystyrene (PS) /Polylactide (PLA) -ROMP (A-B type) based diblock and PEG-PCL-ROMP (A-B-C type) based triblock terpolymer in a living fashion. Project: Pulsed-Addition ROMP: Catalytic Syntheses of Heterotelechelic Polymers • A new regioselective chain transfer agent is developed to synthesize narrowly dispersed hetero-telechelic ROMP polymers with reduced amounts of metal catalyst in one-pot.Tools: HPLC· NMR· MALDI-TOF · UV/Vis Spectroscopy · FT-IR · ESI-MS ·DSC· TGA· GPC· SEC· GC-MS · ·ChemDraw · SciFinder · Origin · ACD/NMR · GaussView · Spartan · Microsoft Office · Adobe Illustrator · Glove Box & Schlenk Line.Skills Learned: Critical thinking, Teamwork, Scientific Writing, Problem-solving Ability, Effective Time Management, Efficient and Clear Communication, Laboratory skills, Analytical skills.