Caidric I. Gupit, PhD
Organic Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Email: cigupit@up.edu.ph
Office Room and Phone No.: T302, Local 3660
Lab Room No.: R108
Research Laboratory: Soft Matter Physics and Chemistry Laboratory
Education & Background
| Undergraduate | BS Chemistry, UP Diliman, 2014 |
| Graduate | PhD Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 2022 MS Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 2019 |
| Postdoctoral Training | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Barbara, 2022-2025 |
| Previous Employment & Appointments | Research Assistant, Hokkaido University, 2022 Science Research Specialist, UP Diliman, 2017 Instructor, UP Diliman, 2014-2016 |
Teaching
| Chem 31: Elementary Organic Chemistry |
Research
Research Focus
Soft Matter Physics and Chemistry
Our lab focuses on the structure and dynamics of polymers in solutions, gels, and elastomers, and on the design of soft materials using complementary scattering and mechanical characterization techniques.
Our research areas include:
Structural and dynamical properties of soft matter
Rheological and mechanical characterization
Structure–property relationships across length scales
Selected Publications
| (1) C. I. Gupit, P. Salas-Ambrosio, J. M. Urueña, Y. Luo, J. M. Hankett, R. Gupta, M. T. Valentine, H. D. Maynard, M. E. Helgeson. Evaluating Polymerization Kinetics Using Microrheology. Polym. Chem. 2024, 15, 1758-1766. doi.org/10.1039/D4PY00188E (2) J. Tang, T. Katashima, C. I. Gupit, X. Li, Y. Mitsukami, Y. Yokoyama, N. Sakumichi, U. -I. Chung, M. Shibayama, T. Sakai. Non-swellability of polyelectrolyte gel in divalent salt solution due to aggregation formation. Polymer 2022, 250, 124894. doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2022.124894 (3) Y. Tsuji, S. Nakagawa, C. I. Gupit, M. Ohira, M. Shibayama, X. Li. Selective Doping of Positive and Negative Spatial Defects into Polymer Gels by Tuning the Pregel Packing Conditions of Star Polymers. Macromolecules 2020, 53, 17, 7537–7545. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01208 (4) C. I. Gupit, X. Li, R. Maekawa, N. Hasegawa, H. Iwase, S. Takata, M. Shibayama. Nanostructures and Viscosities of Nafion Dispersions in Water/Ethanol from Dilute to Concentrated Regimes. Macromolecules 2020, 53, 4, 1464–1473. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02314 (5) M. Ohira, X. Li, C. I. Gupit, H. Kamata, T. Sakai, M. Shibayama. Dynamics of thermoresponsive conetwork gels composed of poly(ethylene glycol) and poly(ethyl glycidyl ether-co-methyl glycidyl ether). Polymer 2018, 155, 75-82. doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2018.09.031 |