text: Egap joined Emory University in 2014. At the same time she held a joint position at Georgia Institute of Technology at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has explored the polymer chemical properties that can impact their ability to self-assemble.
  She won the 2015 Thieme Publishers Chemistry Award. In 2016 she was named by Chemical & Engineering News as a Must See at the American Chemical Society national meeting. She presented her work on ways to align one-dimensional polymer nanowires. She was awarded a National Science Foundation award to explore open-shell conjugated oligomers and polymers. The polymer backbone units incorporate polythiophene and quinoidal units. She explored how ultra-fast transient absorption spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy can be used to characterise the systems. She is interested in spin-polarisation and spin-exchange. She ran an eight-week summer program for students from historically black colleges and universities to take part in research.
  Egap was one of the 2017 Emerging Investigators in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. She demonstrated how near-infrared emitting triblock copolymers could be incorporated into an oligo(ethylene glycol) core for targeted drug delivery. The core-shell nanoparticles can be used to target folate receptor cancer cells. In 2017 she moved to Rice University. She explored how to synthesise functional polymers using photosensitive quantum dots as a catalyst. The technique is known as photo-controlled atom transfer radical polymerization and could replace the current catalysts used to synthesise block copolymers and methacrylates. In 2018 she was named as one of the American Chemical Society Polymer Materials Science Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigator award prize.