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Kean University to Shift to Remote Operations on Sunday, October 12

Kean University will shift to remote operations on Sunday, October 12, due to the State of Emergency declared across New Jersey in response to the forecasted nor’easter storm. All classes scheduled for Sunday on New Jersey campuses will move to remote instruction, and all in-person activities are canceled. 

Only essential personnel should report to work as required. Employees with questions should contact their supervisors for guidance. Keanu’s Kitchen on the Union campus will remain open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday to serve residential students. 

Brian Ree, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Office Location
STEM Building, Rm 504
Email
bree@kean.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • M.S., Polymer Chemistry, POSTECH, South Korea
  • B.A., Chemistry, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Courses Taught

  • Organic Chemistry
  • General Chemistry

Area of Expertise

Ree specializes in polymer chemistry and physics, with an emphasis on student-faculty collaborative research projects driven by an interest in the fundamental aspects of polymers as novel materials. Key areas of interest include anionic polymerization, characterization of various physical properties (electronic, mechanical, thermal, viscoelastic), and investigating morphologies of self-assembled nanostructures of various polymers in bulk, thin-film, and solution-state. He’s deeply interested in the correlation between the chemical structure/nature of polymers, molecular arrangement and orientation, and physical properties that arise as a result of the aforementioned factors.

Publications

Ree, B. J.* Critical Review and Perspective on Recent Progresses in 3D Printing Processes, Materials, and Applications. Polymer 2024, 308, 127384. 
   Ree, B. J.; Zheng, B.; Abbott, A.; Smieska, L. M.; Page, K. A.;* Woll, A. R.; Renwick, Z.; Koerner, H.* Mapping Crystallization Kinetics During 3D Printing of Poly(Ether Ether Ketone). Macromolecules 2024, 57, 2810–2817. 
   Ree, B. J.; Satoh, Y.; Isono, T.; Satoh, T. Highly Ordered Nanoscale Film Morphologies of Block Copolymers Governed by Nonlinear Topologies. ACS Macro Letters 2021, 10, 811–818.  
   Ree, B. J.; Satoh, Y.; Isono, T.; Satoh, T. Influence of Topological Confinement on Nanoscale Film Morphologies of Tricyclic Block Copolymers. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 4120–4127. 
   Ree, B. J.; Isono, T.; Satoh, T. Chemically Controlled Volatile and Nonvolatile Resistive Memory Characteristics of Novel Oxygen-Based Polymers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2020, 12, 28435–28445.