Edmund Palermo

Materials Science and Engineering

About

Ed is from Bay Shore, NY. He began his adventures in polymer science as a high school student under Prof. Miriam Rafailovich at SUNY Stony Brook. After completing a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell in 2006, he moved to The University of Michigan and earned a Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science & Engineering, under the mentorship of Kenichi Kuroda, in 2011. Ed was also an NSF/JSPS visiting scholar at Nagoya University under Prof. Masami Kamigaito in 2010. Following a postdoc with Anne McNeil in Chemistry at Michigan, Ed joined the faculty at RPI in 2014.
Awards and Honors:: ACS PMSE Young Investigator, 2018 NSF CAREER Award, DMR-Biomaterials, 2017 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, 2017 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2016-2018

Other affililations: Biomedical Engineering

Research

Other Focus Areas

Polymer Synthesis, Materials-Biology Interface, Antibacterial Materials

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Edmund Palermo has 54 indexed publications in the subjects of Materials Science, Materials Science, Medicine.

Poly(curcumin-co-poly(ethylene glycol)) films provide neuroprotection following reactive oxygen species insult in vitro
Adelle E. Hamilton, Nikita Waskiewicz, Geraldine B. Quinones, Jeffrey R. Capadona, Marvin Bentley, Edmund F. Palermo, Ryan J. Gilbert
Journal of Neural Engineering
, 22
, 2025
.
Volumetric Patterning of Gels via Super Resolved Interference Lithography
Shaheen Hasan, Gopal S. Kenath, Mrigaraj Goswami, Xuan Luo, Liming Yuan, Jason Huang, Yang Lou, Apostolos Karanastasis, Harikrishnan Vijayamohanan, Edmund F. Palermo, Kyu Young Han, Chaitanya K. Ullal
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 17
, 2025
, pp.43512-43521
.
Modular molecular design of polymerized pro-estrogen materials enables controlled astrocyte response
Devan L. Puhl, Alexis Ziemba, Samuel A.T. Ellman, Alex Hsu, Jayant Saksena, Penelope Phillips Falcone, Bailey Balouch, Deniz Rende, Tanner Fink, R. Helen Zha, Ryan J. Gilbert, Edmund F. Palermo
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
, 13
, 2025
, pp.6376-6392
.
Dynamic Antimicrobial Poly(disulfide) Coatings Exfoliate Biofilms On Demand Via Triggered Depolymerization
Yang Lou, Edmund F. Palermo
Advanced Healthcare Materials
, 13
, 2024
.
Chiral photon emission from a chiral-achiral perovskite heterostructure
Yang Hu, Ruiwen Chen, Saloni Pendse, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jie Jiang, Lifu Zhang, Ru Jia, Edmund F. Palermo, Esther Wertz, Jian Shi
Applied Physics Letters
, 124
, 2024
.
Pharmacology of boldine: summary of the field and update on recent advances
Juan C. Sáez, Justin C. Burrell, Catherine M. Cahill, D. Kacy Cullen, Lakshmi A. Devi, Ryan J. Gilbert, Zachary A. Graham, Vadim J. Gurvich, Leif A. Havton, Ravi Iyengar, Rajesh Khanna, Edmund F. Palermo, Mustafa Siddiq, Carlos A. Toro, Walter Vasquez, Wei Zhao, Christopher P. Cardozo
Frontiers in Pharmacology
, 15
, 2024
.
Biocidal Potency of Polymers with Bulky Cations
Yang Lou, Jamie Gaitor, Megan Treichel, Kevin J.T. Noonan, Edmund F. Palermo
ACS Macro Letters
, 12
, 2023
, pp.215-220
.
Development of a Slow-Degrading Polymerized Curcumin Coating for Intracortical Microelectrodes
Alexis M. Ziemba, Mary Clare Crochiere Woodson, Jessica L. Funnell, Douglas Wich, Bailey Balouch, Deniz Rende, Dahlia N. Amato, Jonathan Bao, Ingrid Oprea, Dominica Cao, Neda Bajalo, Evon S. Ereifej, Jeffrey R. Capadona, Edmund F. Palermo, Ryan J. Gilbert
ACS Applied Bio Materials
, 6
, 2023
, pp.806-818
.
Poly(pro-curcumin) Materials Exhibit Dual Release Rates and Prolonged Antioxidant Activity as Thin Films and Self-Assembled Particles
Ruiwen Chen, Jessica L. Funnell, Geraldine B. Quinones, Marvin Bentley, Jeffrey R. Capadona, Ryan J. Gilbert, Edmund F. Palermo
Biomacromolecules
, 24
, 2023
, pp.294-307
.
Virucidal N95 Respirator Face Masks via Ultrathin Surface-Grafted Quaternary Ammonium Polymer Coatings
Mirco Sorci, Tanner D. Fink, Vaishali Sharma, Sneha Singh, Ruiwen Chen, Brigitte L. Arduini, Katharine Dovidenko, Caryn L. Heldt, Edmund F. Palermo, R. Helen Zha
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 14
, 2022
, pp.25135-25146
.

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