Research Interests

• Heterocyclic synthesis
• Polymer synthesis
• Optically transparent conductive polymers
• Nanofibers
• Nanolithography

 Awards & Honors

Recent Publications

Macro-dipoles in soft/hard expanded-polytetrafluoroethylene plus fluoroethylenepropylene (ePTFE plus FEP) fluoropolymer-film systems for high-output piezoelectric ferroelectret-transducer applications, N Wang, MA Baferani, R Daniels, C Wu, J Huo, Jan van Turnhout, Gregory A Sotzing, Reimund Gerhard, Yang Cao - JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS, 2024

Chromogenic identification of breakdown, GA Sotzing, PS Aklujkar - Nature Materials, 2024

Macro-dipoles in soft/hard expanded-polytetrafluoroethylene+ fluoroethylenepropylene (ePTFE+ FEP) fluoropolymer-film systems for high-output piezoelectric ferroelectret-transducer applications, N Wang, MA Baferani, R Daniels, C Wu, J Huo, Jan van Turnhout, Gregory A Sotzing, Reimund Gerhard, Yang Cao - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2024

Flexible Polyolefin with Enhanced Dipolar Polarization for Energy Storage Capacitors, J Hao, I Mutegi, J Zhou, O Yassin, GA Sotzing, Y Cao - 2023 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), 2023

Flexible Polyolefin with Enhanced Dipolar Polarization for Energy Storage Capacitors, J Hao, I Mutegi, J Zhou, O Yassin, GA Sotzing, Y Cao - 2023 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), 2023

Effect of Fluorine in Redesigning Energy-Storage Properties of High-Temperature Dielectric Polymers, AA Deshmukh, C Wu, O Yassin, L Chen, S Shukla,  Jierui Zhou, Ashish R Khomane, Rishi Gurnani, Ting Lei, Xidong Liang, Rampi Ramprasad, Yang Cao, Gregory Sotzing - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023

Impact of oxygen-containing carbonyl and ether groups on dielectric properties of poly (oxa) norbornene cyclic olefins, C Wu, AA Deshmukh, L Chen, R Ramprasad, Gregory A Sotzing, Yang Cao - Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, 2023

Conductive polymer electrodes, wiring elements, and use thereof in health and sports monitoring, GA Sotzing, K Chon - US Patent App. 18/125,394, 2023

Synthetically tunable polymers, free volume element size distributions, and dielectric breakdown field strengths, SM Fica-Contreras, Z Li, A Alamri, AP Charnay, J Pan, Chao Wu, Jeffrey R Lockwood, Omer Yassin, Stuti Shukla, Gregory Sotzing, Yang Cao, Michael D Fayer - Materials Today, 2023

Ultrathin, all-organic, fabric-based ferroelectret loudspeaker for wearable electronics, M Ploner, N Wang, C Wu, R Daniels, J Huo, GA Sotzing, Yang Cao - Iscience, 2022