Coray Colina

Professor Emeritus

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Research Focus

My research is focused on understanding structure-property-dynamics relations in functional materials such as polymeric membranes, biomolecules, and alternative ionic liquids, in order to create new materials with desired properties that meet application requirements.

Education and Training

2004–2006: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (lab of Lee Pedersen)

2001–2004: Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina state University (lab of Keith E Gubbins)

1993–1995: Msc in Chemical Engineering, Simon Bolivar University (lab. of Claudio Olivera Fuentes)

1986–1992: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Simon Bolivar Univeristy

Selected Awards

Fulbright Scholar (2021–2022)

Cooperative Research Award in Applied Polymer Science (2019)

Women in Physics, Virtual Special Issue on Women in Physics (2017)

Selected Activities

Elected Board Director, Materials Research Society (2020–2022)

Editorial Advisory Board member: ACS Macromolecules, ACS Macro Letters. (2016–2020)

Co- Chair, XXVII International Materials Research Congress, over 1,700 attendees, 2018.

Programing Committee, FOMMS 2018: Innovations for Complex Systems.

Selected Publications

Anstine D, Tang D, Sholl D, Colina C. Adsorption space for microporous polymers with diverse adsorbate species. Computational Materials. 2021, 7, 1–9.

Baker, S. L., Munasinghe, A., Kaupbayeva, B., Kang, N. R., Marie, C., Murata, H., Matyjaszewski, K., Lin, P., Colina, C. M. and A. J. Russell, “Transforming protein-polymer conjugate purification by reversal of protein solubility,” Nature Commun., 2019, 10, 4718.

Kupgan, G., Abbott, L.J., Hart, K. E. and C. M. Colina, “Modeling Amorphous Microporous Polymers for CO2 Capture and Separations,” Chem. Rev., 2018, 118, 5488–5538