Kathleen McEnnis

Associate Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering
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
Website
https://sites.google.com/njit.edu/mcennis-lab/home
2026 Fall Courses
CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
PHEN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
PHEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS
PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS
CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS
CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 410 - SOFT MATERIALS
MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTSE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
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
MTEN 205: MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
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.
Aida Lopez Ruiz, Ann Ramirez, Kathleen McEnnis. 2022. "Single and Multiple Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Particles for Controlled Drug Delivery." Pharmaceutics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 421.
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.