Mateusz Olszewski

Graduate Student

Education

• 2015

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland – Bachelor of Science in Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Thesis: Copolymers of N-vinylformamide and Styrene as carriers for immobilization of catalysts for oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons

Advisor: Ewa Witek

• 2017

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland – Master of Science in Chemistry

Master’s thesis: Controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylformamide

Advisor: Ewa Witek

• In progress (planned graduation – June 2022)

Carnegie Mellon University – PhD candidate, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant in Chemistry

Research: Synthesis of bottlebrush copolymers for biological applications

Advisor: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Research

• 10/2014 – 08/2015

SABIC Innovative Plastics in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands – Internship

Internship title: Development and characterization of functional polymer surfaces

Supervisors: Ramon Groote, Alexander van Goudswaard

Tasks: Conducted my own research project about properties and modification of polymer surfaces. Performed various syntheses of modified monomers as well as radical polymerization and copolymerization reactions. Used various characterization techniques, such as NMR, ATR-FTIR, GPC, DSC and contact angle measurements.

• 12/2016 – 05/2017

Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Zabrze, Poland – Internship

Internship title: Controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylformamide

Supervisor: Barbara Trzebicka

Tasks: Performing ATRP polymerization using common monomers. Developing a set of optimized conditions for performing controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylformamide using atom transfer radical polymerization and reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization.

Publications

1. Olszewski, M. , Li, L. , Xie, G. , Keith, A. , Sheiko, S. S. and Matyjaszewski, K. (2019), Degradable cellulose‐based polymer brushes with controlled grafting densities. J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.. doi:10.1002/pola.29481
2. Sosnowski, S., Szymanski, R., Lorandi, F., Olszewski, M., Sobieski, J., Yin, R., … & Matyjaszewski, K. (2021). Distribution of Alternating Sequences in Methyl Methacrylate/n-Butyl Acrylate Copolymers Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Macromolecules.
3. Adibnia, V., Olszewski, M., De Crescenzo, G., Matyjaszewski, K. and Banquy, X., 2020. Superlubricity of zwitterionic bottlebrush polymers in the presence of multivalent ions. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
4. Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Pan, X., Fu, L., Lathwal, S., Olszewski, M., Yan, J., Enciso, A.E., Wang, Z., Xia, H. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2018. Ultrasonication-induced aqueous atom transfer radical polymerization. ACS Macro Letters, 7(3), pp.275-280.
5. Faivre, J., Shrestha, B.R., Xie, G., Olszewski, M., Adibnia, V., Moldovan, F., Montembault, A., Sudre, G., Delair, T., David, L. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2018. Intermolecular interactions between Bottlebrush Polymers boost the protection of surfaces against frictional wear. Chemistry of Materials, 30(12), pp.4140-4149.
6. Enciso, A.E., Fu, L., Lathwal, S., Olszewski, M., Wang, Z., Das, S.R., Russell, A.J. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2018. Biocatalytic “Oxygen‐Fueled” Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57(49), pp.16157-16161.
7. Xie, G., Martinez, M.R., Olszewski, M., Sheiko, S.S. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2018. Molecular bottlebrushes as novel materials. Biomacromolecules, 20(1), pp.27-54.
8. Xia, Y., Adibnia, V., Huang, R., Murschel, F., Faivre, J., Xie, G., Olszewski, M., De Crescenzo, G., Qi, W., He, Z. and Su, R., 2019. Biomimetic Bottlebrush Polymer Coatings for Fabrication of Ultralow Fouling Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie, 131(5), pp.1322-1328.
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9. Cuthbert, J., Zhang, T., Biswas, S., Olszewski, M., Shanmugam, S., Fu, T., Gottlieb, E., Kowalewski, T., Balazs, A.C. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2018. Structurally Tailored and Engineered Macromolecular (STEM) Gels as Soft Elastomers and Hard/Soft Interfaces. Macromolecules, 51(22), pp.9184-9191.
10. Sun, Y., Fu, L., Olszewski, M. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. ATRP of N‐Hydroxyethyl Acrylamide in the Presence of Lewis Acids: Control of Tacticity, Molecular Weight, and Architecture. Macromolecular rapid communications, 40(10), p.1800877.
11. Cuthbert, J., Martinez, M.R., Sun, M., Flum, J., Li, L., Olszewski, M., Wang, Z., Kowalewski, T. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. Non‐Tacky Fluorinated and Elastomeric STEM Networks. Macromolecular rapid communications, p.1800876.
12. Sun, Y., Lathwal, S., Wang, Y., Fu, L., Olszewski, M., Fantin, M., Enciso, A.E., Szczepaniak, G., Das, S. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. Preparation of Well-Defined Polymers and DNA–Polymer Bioconjugates via Small-Volume eATRP in the Presence of Air. ACS Macro Letters, 8, pp.603-609.
13. Wang, Z., Yan, J., Liu, T., Wei, Q., Li, S., Olszewski, M., Wu, J., Sobieski, J., Fantin, M., Bockstaller, M.R. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. Control of Dispersity and Grafting Density of Particle Brushes by Variation of ATRP Catalyst Concentration. ACS Macro Letters, 8, pp.859-864.
14. Wang, Z., Liu, T., Lin, K.C., Li, S., Yan, J., Olszewski, M., Sobieski, J., Pietrasik, J., Bockstaller, M.R. and Matyjaszewski, K., Synthesis of Ultra-high Molecular Weight SiO 2-g-PMMA Particle Brushes. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, pp.1-8.
15. Xia, Y., Adibnia, V., Shan, C., Huang, R., Qi, W., He, Z., Xie, G., Olszewski, M., De Crescenzo, G., Matyjaszewski, K. and Banquy, X., 2019. Synergy between zwitterionic polymers and hyaluronic acid enhances antifouling performance. Langmuir, 35(48), pp.15535-15542.
16. Wang, Z., Fantin, M., Sobieski, J., Wang, Z., Yan, J., Lee, J., Liu, T., Li, S., Olszewski, M., Bockstaller, M.R. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. Pushing the Limit: Synthesis of SiO2-g-PMMA/PS Particle Brushes via ATRP with Very Low Concentration of Functionalized SiO2–Br Nanoparticles. Macromolecules, 52(22), pp.8713-8723.
17. Wang, Z., Liu, T., Zhao, Y., Lee, J., Wei, Q., Yan, J., Li, S., Olszewski, M., Yin, R., Zhai, Y. and Bockstaller, M.R., 2019. Synthesis of Gradient Copolymer Grafted Particle Brushes by ATRP. Macromolecules, 52(24), pp.9466-9475.
18. Martinez, M.R., Sobieski, J., Lorandi, F., Fantin, M., Dadashi-Silab, S., Xie, G., Olszewski, M., Pan, X., Ribelli, T.G. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2019. Understanding the relationship between catalytic activity and termination in photoATRP: Synthesis of linear and bottlebrush polyacrylates. Macromolecules, 53(1), pp.59-67.
19. Wang, Z., Lee, J., Wang, Z., Zhao, Y., Yan, J., Lin, Y., Li, S., Liu, T., Olszewski, M., Pietrasik, J. and Bockstaller, M.R., 2020. Tunable Assembly of Block Copolymer Tethered Particle Brushes by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. ACS Macro Letters, 9, pp.806-812.