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Miller Lab
Led by Stephen A. Miller · Chemistry
What we study
The Miller Lab designs sustainable polymers from bio‑renewable feedstocks to replace conventional plastics, making them break down in water or the environment. They use lab synthesis, computer models, and a new Long Covalent Bond Theory to understand how these polymers form and degrade.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 3
Recent papers, explained
- Bio-oil derived polyesteramides as water-degradable replacements for polyethylene
2025 · Green Chemistry
Creating polyesteramide plastics from bio‑oil that can dissolve in water, offering a greener alternative to polyethylene.
- The location of the chemical bond. Application of long covalent bond theory to the structure of silica
2023 · Frontiers in Chemistry
Applying Long Covalent Bond Theory to explain silica’s bonding structure and its implications for material design.
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- Entropy-Driven Depolymerization of Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
2023 · Macromolecules
Studying how the silicone polymer PDMS breaks apart spontaneously due to entropy, revealing pathways for its degradation.
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