Biography

Emeritus Professor T. C. Mike Chung, NAI Fellow

The Pennsylvania State University, USA


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

1982-1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, IPOS

1979-1982 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Chemistry

1972-1976 B.Sc., Chung Yuan Christian University, Chemistry


Publications (Selected)

  1. Synthesis of Functional Polypropylene Containing Hindered Phenol Stabilizers and Applications in Metallized Polymer Film Capacitors, Gang Zhang, Houxiang Li, Martin Antensteiner, T. C. Mike Chung, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 2925-2934.
  2. Real-time Infrared-Mechano-Optical Behavior and Structural Evolution of Polypropylene and Hydroxyl-Functionalized Polypropylene during Uniaxial Deformation, Ido Offenbach, Sahil Gupta, T. C. Chung, Robert Weiss, and Miko Cakmak, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 6294-6305.
  3. Free Surfaces Overcome Superheating in Simulated Melting of Isotactic Polypropylene, Qin Chen, Eric Sirota, Min Zhang, T. C. Mike Chung, and Scott Miller, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 8885-8896.
  4. Characterization of Polyethylene-g-Sulfonated Polyarylsulfone Proton Exchange Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel cell Applications, Hyung Kyu Kim, Gang Zhang, Changwoo Nam, and T. C. Mike Chung, Membranes 2015, 5, 875-887.
  5. Critical Role of Morphology on the Dielectric Constant of semicrystalline Polyolefins, M. Misra, A. Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, T. C. Mike Chung, R. Ramprasad, and S. K. Kumar, J. Chem. Phys. 2016, 144, 234905.
  6. Petrogel: New Hydrocarbon (Oil) Absorbent Based on Polyolefin Polymers, C.W. Nam, H. Li, G. Zhang, and T. C. Mike Chung, Macromolecules 2016, 49, 5427-5437.
  7. Polypropylene Copolymer Containing Crosslinkable Antioxidant Moieties With Long-Term Stability Under Elevated Temperature Conditions, Gang Zhang, Changwoo Nam, and T. C. Mike Chung, Macromolecules 2017, 50, 7041-7051.
  8. Developing Polypropylene Bonded Hindered Phenol Antioxidants for Expanding Polypropylene Applications in High Temperature Conditions, Gang Zhang, Changwoo Nam, and T. C. Mike Chung, Journal of Material Sciences and Engineering 2017, 6 (6), 1000393.
  9. Increasing Polypropylene High Temperature Stability by Blending Polypropylene-bonded Hindered Phenol Antioxidant, Gang Zhang, Changwoo Nam, Linnea Petersson, Joakim Jämbeck, Henrik Hillborg and T. C. Mike Chung, Macromolecules 2018, 51, 1927-1936.
  10. Polyolefin-based interpenetrating polymer network absorbent for crude oil entrapment and recovery in aqueous system, Changwoo Nam, Gang Zhang, T. C. Mike Chung, Journal of Hazardous Materials 2018, 351, 285-292.
  11. Practical Oil Spill Recovery by A Combination of New Polyolefin Absorbent and Mechanical Skimmer, Changwoo Nam, Houxiang Li, Gang Zhang, Logan R. Lutz, Behzad Nazari, Ralph H. Colby, T. C. Mike Chung, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2018, 6, 12036-12045.
  12. Expanding Polyethylene and Polypropylene Applications to High Energy Areas by Applying Polyolefin-Bonded Antioxidants. T. C. Mike Chung, Macromolecules 2019, 52, 5618-5637.
  13. Thermally Stable Low-Loss Polymer Dielectrics Enabled by Attach Cross-linkable Antioxidant to Polypropylene", Mengxue Yuan, Gang Zhang, Bo Li, T.C. Mike Chung, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, and Michael T. Lanagan, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12, 14154-14164.
  14. High Melt-Strength Polypropylene (HMS-PP) Prepared by Commercial Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalyst and Production Process, Tsutomu Uzawa, Keisuke Goto, Toshiya Uozumi, Toshihiko Sugano, Wei Zhu, and T. C. Mike Chung, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2020, 2, 1827-1838.
  15. Developing a Practical Chemical Process to Prepare Boron-Doped Carbon (CBx) Materials with High Thermal-Oxidative Stability, Joseph Vandy Sengeh, Wei Zhu, Houxiang Li, and T. C. Mike Chung, Journal of Material Sciences and Engineering, 2021, 10(8), 1-9.
  16. A Role for Newly Developed Sorbents in Remediating Large-Scale Oil Spills: Reviewing Recent Advances and Beyond, H. Kim, G. Zhang, Changwoo Nam and T. C. Mike Chung. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2022, 6(1), 2100211.
  17. Preparation and Characterization of Polyethylene Copolymer with PAH Side Groups as a Carbon Fiber Precursor, Houxiang Li, Joseph Sengeh, Olumide D. Agboola, Jiho Seo, Ralph Colby and T. C. Mike Chung, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2023, 5, 791-802.
  18. "New Advances in Polyolefins" T. C. Chung (Ed.), Plenum, New York, 1993.
  19. "Functionalization of Polyolefins", T. C. Chung, Academic Press, London , 2002.
  20. Experimental Studies of Sodium-doped Polyacetylene Optical and ESR Results for Metallic (CHNay)x, T. C. Chung, A Feldblum, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, J. Chem. Phys. 1981, 74, 5504.
  21. Photoexcitation in Polyacetylene, L. Lauchlan, S. Etemad, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, Phys. Rev. B 1981, 24, 3701.
  22. Electronic Excitation in Polyacetylene, S. Etemad, A. J. Heeger, L. Lauchlan, T. C. Chung and A. G. MacDiarmid, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 1981, 77,43.
  23. Photoconductivity in Polyactylene, S. Etemad, M. Mitami, M. Ozaki, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, Solid State Commun. 1981,40,75.
  24. Inter-soliton Electron Hopping Transport in trans-(CH)x, D. Moses, J. Chen, A. Denestein, M. Kaueh, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, Solid State Communications 1981, 39, 1007.
  25. Pressure Dependence of the Photoabsorption of Polyacetylene, D. Moses, A. Feldblum, E. Ehrnfreund, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, Physical Rev. B 1982, 26, 3361.
  26. Electrochemical Isomerization of cis-(CH)x to trans-(CH)x, T. C., Chung, A. G. MacDiarmid, A. Feldblum and A. J. Heeger, J. Polymer Science, Polymer Lett. Ed. 1982, 20,427.
  27. Opto-electrochemical Spectroscopy of trans-(CH)x, A. Feldblum, J. H. Kaufman, S. Etemad, A. J. Heeger, T. C. Chung and A. G. MacDiarmid, Physical Rev. B 1982, 26, 815.
  28. Chemical and Electrochemical Isomerization of Polyacetylene:  In situ Optical Studies, A. Feldblum, A. J. Heeger, T. C. Chung and A. G. MacDiarmid, J. Chem. Phys. 1982, 77, 5114.
  29. Picosecond Photoinduced Dichroism in trans-(CH)x:  Direct Measurement of Soliton Diffusion, A. Vardeny, J. Strait, D. Moses, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, Physical Rev. Lett. 1982, 49,1657.
  30. Pressure Dependence of the Photoabsorption of Polyacetylene, D. Moses, A. Feldblum, A. Denenstein, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and A. G. MacDiarmid, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 1982, 83,1119.
  31. Picosecond Photoinduced Optical Anistropy in trans-(CH)x, A. Vardeny, J. Strait, D. Moses, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, J. de Physique 1983, C3, 403.
  32. Charge Transport at Mid-gap in trans-(CH)x:  An Electrochemical Study, J. H. Kaufman, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, Solid State Comm. 1983, 47, 585.
  33. Polarons and Soliton in trans-(CH)x:  An Optical Study, S. Etemad, A. Feldblum, A. G. MacDiarmid, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, J. Physique 1983, C3, 413.
  34. Polarons and Soliton Model for Macroscopic Conduction in Doped Polyacetylene, A. G. MacDiarmid and T. C. Chung, J. de Physique 1983, C3, 513.
  35. Photoexcitation in trans-(CH)x:  A Fourier Transform Infrared Study, F. B. Blanchet, C. R. Fincher, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, Physical Rev. Lett. 1983, 50, 1938.
  36. Optical Studies of Pyrolyzed Polyacrylonitrile, T. C. Chung, Y. Schlesinger, S. Etemad, A. G. MacDiarmid, and A. J. Heeger, J. Polymer Science, Polymer Phys. Ed. 1984, 22, 1239.
  37. Solitons at High Density in trans-(CH)x:  Collective Transport by Mobile, Spinless, Charged Soliton, T. C. Chung, F. S. Moraes, J. D. Flood and A. J. Heeger, Physical Rev. B 1984, 29, 2341.
  38. Soliton or not in Polyacteylene, A. J. Heeger, G. Blanchet, T. C. Chung and C. Fincher, J. of Synthetical Metal 1984, 9, 173.
  39. Fundamental Electrochemistry Studies of Polyacetlene, J. H. Kaufman, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, J. Electrochem. Soc. 1984, 131, 2847.
  40. Charge Storage in Doped Poly(thiophene): Optical and Electrochemical Studies, T. C. Chung, J. H. Kaufman, A. J. Heeger and F. Wudl, Physical Rev. B 1984, 30,  702.
  41. Poly(thiophene): A Stable Polymer Cathode Material, J. H. Kaufman, T. C. Chung, A. J. Heeger and F. Wudl, J. Electrochem. Soc. 1984, 131, 2092.
  42. Synthesis and Properties of Chemically Coupled Polythiophene, M. Kobayashi, T. C. Chung, J. H. Kaufman, F. S. Moraes, E. Chen, F. Wudl and A. J. Heeger, Synthetic Metal 1984, 9, 77.
  43. Doped Polythiophene:  ESR Determination of the Magnetic Susceptibility, F. Moraes, D. Davidov, M. Kobayashi, T. C. Chung, J. Chen, A. J. Heeger and F. Wudl, Synthetic Metals 1985, 10, 169.
  44. Soliton Lattice to Metal:  A First-order Phase Transition, J. Chen, T. C. Chung, F. Moraes and A. J. Heeger, Solid State Communication 1985, 53, 757.
  45. Charge Storage in Doped Polythiophene:  In situ Opto-Electrochemical Spectroscopy, T. C. Chung, J. H. Kaufman, A. J. Heeger, F. Wudl, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 1985, 118, 205.
  46. First-order Transition to a Novel Metallic State in [Na+y(CH)-y]x; insitu  Electron Resonance During Chemical and Electrochemical Doping, F. Moraes, J. Chen, T. C. Chung and A. J. Heeger, Synthetic Metals 1985, 11, 291.
  47. First-Order Phase Transition to Metallic State in Doped Polyacetylene: Solitons at High Energy, J. Chen, T. C. Chung, F. Moraes and A. J. Heeger, "Localization and Metal-Insulator Transitions", Ed. Hellmut Fritzsche and David Adler, Plenum Publ. Corp. (1985).
  48. Rod to Coil Transition and Aggregation in Soluble Polydiacetylenes, D. G. Peiffer, T. C. Chung, D. N. Schulz, P. K. Agarwal, R. T. Garner and N. W. Kim, J. Chemical Physics, 1986, 85, 4712.
  49. Polyalcohols with Well-Defined Molecule Structure, T. C. Chung, M. Raate, E. Berluche, and D. N. Schulz, Macromolecules 1988, 21, 1903.


Selected Patents:

  1. Methods and Compositions Relating to A Super-Absorbent for Oil Recovery and Cleanup, T. C. Mike Chung and Xuepei Yuan, U. S. Patent 9,109,057 (2015) and U. S. Patent 9,688,895 (2017).
  2. Polyolefin Interpenetrated Network Material for Hydrocarbon Recovery, Changwoo Nam, Gang Zhang, and T. C. Mike Chung, U. S. Patent 9,861,954 (2018).
  3. Recovery of Spilled Oils Using Polyolefin Material with Interpenetrated Network, Changwoo Nam, Gang Zhang, T. C. Mike Chung, Chinese Patent Number CN 108271378A (2018).
  4. Stabilized Polymer Compositions. Linnea Petersson, Henrik Hillborg, Joakim Jämbeck, Gang Zhang, and T. C. Mike Chung, International Publication Number WO 2018/202562 A1 (2018) and European Patent Application No./Patent No. 18719199.4 -1102 (2019).
  5. A new class of carbon fiber precursors and production process, T. C. Mike Chung, Houxiang Li, International Publication Number WO 2021/034499 A2 (2021).
  6. Functional Polyolefin Polymers and Manufacture Thereof, Tim Hsu, Minren Lin, and T. C. Mike Chung, U. S. Patent 11,820,848 (2023) and U. S. Patent 12,286,496 (2025)


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