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Jennifer Raudys
Major: Chemistry
Field of Study: Green and Sustainable Chemistry and Polymers
and
Crystal engineering
Academic Background: BS in Biochemistry, Umass/Boston
Future Plans: PhD in Green Chemistry
Email Address: jraudys@hotmail.com
My personal interests include Classical Ballet
and traveling to foreign countries. I love listening to Alternative, Hip-
Hop, and Opera (Italian). I like collecting stamps, coins, and pens.
A benign control-release mechanism was developed using bioinspired water-soluble thymine based polymers co-polymerized with quaternary ammonium salts. It was shown that UV exposure induced photo-dimerization between the thymine molecules in the polymer. It was also demonstrated that the photodimerization increased proportionally to increased UV exposure.