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Ragogna Research GroupWestern Science

  • Welcome!: To the Ragogna Group Website

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    UV curing: To make polymer networks

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    Fundamental Main Group Chemistry:

    Fundamental Main Group Chemistry

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    Anti Icing Surfaces:

    Anti Icing Surfaces

  • ToF-SIMS: Metal coupons

  • XPS: Glovebox hookup for air-sensitive samples

  • Gas line for ALD reactor:

    Gas line for ALD reactor

  • Fall 2022: We welcome Ellie, Scott, Sean (not in the photo), Alex V, Jordan (not in photo), Matt (not in photo), Blaine, Jeff, Jessica, Gabby & Ian

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    Fall 2021: Welcome to new group Michael (not in the photo), Sofia, and Gabby!

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What we do.

At the root of all of our work lies fundamental main group chemistry.  This means we think about new structure and bonding for the p-block elements, unprecedented reaction chemistry and ways to bring these ideas to the broader chemical and scientific community.  We currently have several areas of active research:  

Synthesizing strange molecules featuring the group 15 and 16 elements

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C.M.E. Graham, T.E. Pritchard, P.D. Boyle, J. Valjus, H.M. Tuononen, P.J. Ragogna*, Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 6236-6240. 

Synthesis and self assembly of metal containing polymers

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V.A. Béland, Z. Wang, T.K. Sham, P.J. Ragogna* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 13252-13256. 

Utilizing E-H bonds in the creation of novel photopolymer networks

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V.A. Béland, P.J. Ragogna*ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 27640-27650.

Surface modification utilizing phosphonium salt chemistry

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T.J. Cuthbert, B. Hisey, T.D. Harrison, J.F. Trant, E.R. Gillies*, P.J. Ragogna* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12707-12710.