Kathleen McEnnis
Associate Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering
382 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
Education
Ph.D. ; University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Polymer Science and Engineering ; 2013

M.S. ; University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Polymer Science and Engineering ; 2008

B.S. ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Chemistry ; 2007

Past Courses
CHE 375: STRCTURE PROP & PROC MATERIALS

CHE 375: STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES AND PROCESSING OF MATERIALS

CHE 444: INTRODUCTION TO POLYMER ENGINEERING

CHE 682: POLYMER STRCTRS & PROPRTIES

CHE 782: POLYMER STRCTRS & PROPRTIES

CHE 782: POLYMER STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES

CHE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

MTEN 201: INTRO PRINC OF MATERIAL ENGR- HONORS

MTEN 201: INTRODUCTORY PRINCIPLES OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING

Research Interests
Investigate the interaction of polymer drug delivery vehicles with the biological environment (cells, blood, proteins, and physiological temperature) using physical chemistry techniques in novel ways to design particles for drug delivery.
Journal Article
Aida López Ruiz, Mengyuan Xiao, Asmitha Sathya, Nicole Piccininni, Guangliang Liu, Noshin Siddiq, Hao Chen, Kathleen McEnnis. 2023. "Influence of particle z-potential and experimental procedure on protein corona formation and multicomponent aggregation." AIChE Journal , pp. e18237.

Guangliang Liu, Roberto Martinez, Anika Bhatnagar, Kathleen McEnnis. 2023. "Influence of Surfactant on Glass Transition Temperature of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticles." Soft Matter , vol. 19 , pp. 5371 – 5378.

Guangliang Liu, Kathleen McEnnis. 2022. "Glass transition temperature of PLGA particles and its effect on drug delivery applications." Polymers , vol. 14 , no. 5 , pp. 993.

Stephanie Christau, Aida López Ruiz, Nahal Habibi, Judith Witte, Mark Bannon, Kathleen McEnnis, Joerg Lahann. 2022. "Macrophage-Targeting Poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticles Decorated with Multifunctional Brush Polymers." Particle and Particle Systems Characterization , pp. 2100284.

Aida Lopez Ruiz, Evaristo Villaseco Arribas, Kathleen McEnnis. 2022. "Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) encapsulated platinum nanoparticles for cancer treatment." Materials Advances , vol. 3 , pp. 2858-2870.

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Conference Proceeding
"Surface Modification of Alkyne-Functionalized Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Particles for Breast Cancer Stem Cell Targeting"
Transactions of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society For Biomaterials 2018, 2018.