DR. ABRAHAM JOY
Associate Professor of Polymer Science
Functionalized Biomaterials, Photoresponsive Polymers,
Self-Assembled Materials
Research Interests:
The central theme of the Joy Lab is in developing
advanced polymeric materials for applications in medicine
and engineering. The Joy Lab designs and develops
polymers in three research areas i) multivalent
biomaterials to modulate physical and biological responses
ii) photoresponsive materials that degrade, crosslink or
change their mechanical or adhesive properties iii) selfassembling polymers that exhibit emergent material
properties and will be useful for applications such as
therapeutic delivery. The above polymers are polyesters,
polycarbonates, polyurethanes or polyacrylates.
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Department of
Polymer Science
The University of Akron, OH
330-972-6004
[email protected]
www.uakron.edu/cpspe/facultyresearch/profile.dot?
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Biography:
 Postdoctoral Fellow: Rutgers
University (New Jersey Center for
Biomaterials) / University of
Pennsylvania (2006-2010)
 Postdoctoral Associate: Georgia
Institute of Technology (2000-2005)
 Ph.D. Organic Chemistry,
Tulane University (1995-2000)
Awards/Accomplishments:
Drug / protein delivery
Wound adhesive and wound healing materials
Bacterial and biofilm control
Micro-patterned polymer surfaces and devices
Controlled release of active ingredients
Modulating cell proliferation and differentiation
Representative Publications:
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 NSF CAREER award (2014-2019)
 3M Non-tenured faculty award
(2011-2013)
 NIH Postdoctoral fellow
(2006- 2008)
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A. McCormick, M.V.S.N. Maddipatla, S. Shuojia, E.A.
Chamsaz, H. Yokoyama, A. Joy, N. Leipzig;
Micropatterned coumarin polyester thin films direct
neurite orientation; ACS Applied Mat. Interfaces, 2014,
6, 19655.
C. Peng, A. Joy; Baylis-Hillman reaction as a versatile
platform for the synthesis of diverse functionalized
polymers by chain and step polymerization;
Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 1258.
S. Gokhale, Y. Xu, A. Joy; A library of multifunctional
polyesters with ‘peptide-like’ pendant functional
groups; Biomacromolecules, 2013, 14, 2489.
M.V.S.N. Maddipatla, D. Wehrung, C. Tang, W. Fan,
M. O. Oyewumi, T. Miyoshi, A. Joy; Photoresponsive
coumarin polyesters that exhibit cross-linking and
chain scission properties; Macromolecules, 2013, 46,
5133.
S. Sun, E. A. Chamsaz, A. Joy; Photoinduced
polymer chain scission of alkoxyphenacyl based
polycarbonates; ACS Macro Letters, 2012, 1, 1184.