Sijia works on developing advanced photo-curable materials for additive manufacturing. She is particularly interested in designing high-performing 3D printed materials with intrinsic recyclability. In addition, she seeks to expand the range of materials and properties available for additive manufacturing, pushing the additive manufacturing technologies move beyond prototyping. Her research aims to offer solutions to the rising challenges of plastic waste and circular economy.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Chemical Engineering B.S., 2015

University of Colorado-Boulder Chemical Engineering Ph.D., 2020

• Huang, S.* ; Adelmund, A.; Pichumani, P. S.; Shwartz, J. J.; Menguc, Y.; Shusteff, M.; Wallin, T. J.* One-Pot 3D Printing of Robust Multimaterial Devices. Matter, accepted.
• Huang, S.† ; Kim, K.† ; Musgrave, G. M.; Sharp, M.; Sinha, J.; Stansbury, J. W.; Musgrave, C. B.; Bowman, C. N.* Determining Michael Acceptor Reactivity from Kinetic, Mechanistic, and Computational Analysis for the Base-catalyzed Thiol-Michael Reaction. Polymer Chemistry, 2021, 12, 3619-28. †Note: Huang, S. and Kim, K. both contributed comparably to this work
• Huang, S.; Podgórski, M.; Han, X.; Bowman, C. N.* Chemical Recycling of poly(thiourethane) thermosets enabled by thiourethane bonds. Polymer Chemistry, 2020, 11(43), 6879-6883.
• Huang, S.; Podgórski, M.; Zhang, X.; Sinha, J.; Claudino, M.; Stansbury, J. W.; Bowman, C. N.* Dental Restorative Materials Based on Thiol-Michael Photopolymerizations. Journal of Dental Research, 2018, 97(5), 530-536.
• Huang, S.; Sinha, J.; Podgórski, M.; Zhang, X.; Claudino, M.; Bowman, C. N.* Mechanistic Modeling of the Thiol–Michael Addition Polymerization Kinetics: Structural Effects of the Thiol and Vinyl Monomers. Macromolecules, 2018, 51(15), 5979-5988.
• Huang, S.; Bai, L.; Trifkovic, M.; Cheng, X.; Macosko, C. W.* Controlling the Morphology of Immiscible Cocontinuous Polymer Blends via Silica Nanoparticles Jammed at the Interface. Macromolecules, 2016, 49(10), 3911-3918.
• Wang, M.; Ghosh, S. K.; Stafford, C. M.; Blevins, A. K.; Huang, S.; Martinez, J.; Long, R.; Bowman. C. N.; Killgore, J. P.; Zou, M.; Ding, Y.* Snakeskin-inspired Elastomers with Extremely Low Coefficient of Friction under Dry Conditions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12(51), 57450-460.
• Podgórski, M.; Huang, S.; Bowman, C. N.* Additive Manufacture of Dynamic Thiol-Ene Networks Incorporating Anhydridederived Reversible Thioester Links. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces , 2021, 13(11), 12789-96.
• Kim, K.; Sinha, J.; Gao, G.; Childress, K. K.; Sartor, S. M.; Salazar, A. M.; Huang, S.; Musgrave, C. B.; Stansbury, J. W.* High-Efficiency Radical Photopolymerization Enhanced by Autonomous Dark Cure. Macromolecules, 2020, 53(13), 5034–5046
• Podgórski, M.; Mavila, S.; Huang, S.; Spurgin, N.; Sinha, J.; Bowman, C. N.* Thiol-anhydride dynamic reversible networks. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(24), 9345-9349.
• Alim, M. D.; Mavila, S.; Miller, D. B.; Huang, S.; Podgórski, M.; Cox, L. M.; Sullivan, A. C.; McLeod, R. R.* ; Bowman, C. N.* Realizing High Refractive Index Thiol-X Materials: A General and Scalable Synthetic Spproach. ACS Materials Letters, 2019, 1(5), 582-588.
• Zhang, X.; Huang, S.; Podgórski, M.; Han, X.; Claudino, M.; Bowman, C. N.* Assessment of TEMPO as A Thermally Activatable Base Generator and Its Use in Initiation of Thermally-triggered Thiol-Michael Addition Polymerizations. Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 9(32), 4294-4302.
• Sinha, J.; Podgórski, M.; Huang, S.; Bowman, C. N.* Multifunctional Monomers Based on Vinyl Sulfonates and Vinyl Sulfonamides for Crosslinking Thiol-Michael Polymerizations: Monomer Reactivity and Mechanical Behavior. Chemical Communications, 2018, 54(24), 3034-3037.
• Zhang, X.; Xi, W.; Huang, S.; Long, K.; Bowman, C. N.* Wavelength-selective Sequential Polymer Network Formation Controlled with A Two-color Responsive Initiation System. Macromolecules, 2017, 50(15), 5652-5660.
• Trifkovic, M.; Hedegaard, A. T.; Sheikhzadeh, M.; Huang, S.; Macosko, C. W.* Stabilization of PE/PEO Cocontinuous Blends by Interfacial Nanoclays. Macromolecules, 2015, 48(13), 4631-4644.

• UC Presidential Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellow, 2023
• PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, American Chemical Society 2022
• Lawrence Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2021 - 2024
• Dean’s Outstanding Merit Fellowship, University of Colorado - Boulder 2015
• College of Science and Engineering Dean’s List, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 2011 - 2013
• Maroon Global Excellence Scholarship, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 2011 - 2015