Julia Oktawiec
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
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About
Advancing clean energy and health technologies increasingly requires sophisticated materials that can be tailored to solve specific challenges. Peptides have ideal properties to meet these needs, as they are enormously diverse, simple to synthesize, and increasingly easier to design. My lab will take advantage of these superlative properties to develop bio-inspired solutions for challenging separations in clean energy, the tailored synthesis of critical materials, and the development of complex functional scaffolds for medicine.
Selected Publications
Oktawiec, J.; Ebrahim, O. M.; Chen, Y.; Su, K.; Sharpe, C.; Rosenmann, N. D.; Barbut, C.; Weigand, S.; Byrnes, J.; Thompson, M. P.; Qiao, B.; Gianneschi, N. C. “Conformational Modulation and Polymerization-Induced Folding of Proteomimetic Peptide Brush Polymers.” Chemical Science2024, 15, 13899. (Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/sc/d4sc03420a)
Oktawiec, J.; Jiang, H. Z. H.; Turkiewicz, A. B.; Long, J. R. “Influence of the primary and secondary coordination spheres on nitric oxide adsorption and reactivity in cobalt(II)–triazolate frameworks.” Chemical Science 2021, 12, 14590. (Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/sc/d1sc03994f)
Oktawiec, J.; Jiang, H. Z. H.; Vitillo, J. G.; Reed, D. A.; Darago, L. E.; Trump, B. A.; Bernales, V.; Li, H.; Colwell, K. A.; Furukawa, H.; Brown, C. M.; Gagliardi, L.; Long, J. R. “Negative cooperativity upon hydrogen bond-stabilized O2 adsorption in a redox-active metal–organic framework.” Nature Communications 2020, 11, 3087. (Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16897-z)
Education
BA, Columbia College, Columbia University, 2013 (Advisor: Gerard Parkin)
PhD, University of California Berkeley, 2019 (Advisor: Jeffrey Long)
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2020 - 2025 (Advisor: Nathan Gianneschi)