Materials science research group polymers

Our research on the use of ROP as a route to transition metal-based polymers has been supported by the Ontario Center of Materials Research (OCMR), the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Institute of Chemical Science and Technology (ICST). Research on Ihe detailed properties of the polymers is being carried out in collaboration with the Polymer Materials Science Research Group of Professor G. Julius Vancso at the University of Toronto. I would also like to acknowledge and thank my very talented and enthusiastic coworkers who have carried out this research and whose names are found in the references. 1 am also grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a fellowship (1994-1996). 

Stephen J. Paddison received a B.Sc.(Hon.) in Chemical Physics and a Ph.D. (1996) in Physical/Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Calgary, Canada. He was, subsequently, a postdoctoral fellow and staff member in the Materials Science Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he conducted both experimental and theoretical investigations of sulfonic acid polymer electrolyte membranes. This work was continued while he was part of Motorola s Computational Materials Group in Los Alamos. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry and Materials Science Departments at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL. Research interests continue to be in the development and application of first-principles and statistical mechanical methods in understanding the molecular mechanisms of proton transport in fuel-cell materials. 

Since its discovery more than 50 years ago, olefin metathesis has evolved from its origins in binary and ternary mixtures of the Ziegler-Natta type into a research area dominated by well-defined molecular catalysts. Surveys of developments up to 1993 were presented in COMC (1982) and COMC (1995). Major advances in ROMP over the last 10 years include the development of modular, stereoselective group 6 initiators, and easily handled, functional-group tolerant ruthenium initiators. The capacity to tailor polymer functionality, chain length, and microstructure has expanded applications in materials science, to the point where ROMP now constitutes one of the most powerful methods available for the molecular-level design of macromolecular materials. In addition to an excellent and comprehensive text on olefin metathesis, a three-volume handbook s has recently appeared, of which the third volume focuses specifically on applications of metathesis in polymer synthesis. 

Marjorie S. Austero is a MS Food Science/ PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Drexel University, USA. She is currently working with the Natural Polymers and Photonics Groups and her current research is focused on biopolymer materials for use in filtration and active food packaging systems. 

K. Matyjaszewski in 1990. After he joined Prof. C. K. Ober s research group in the Department of Materials Science Engineering at Cornell University as a postdoctoral associate for 2 years, working with the development and applications of optoelectronic polymers, he returned to Korea in 1993 and worked to develop polymeric photonic devices as a Project Leader at the Photonic Switching Section at the Electronics Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) for IV2 years. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Polymer Science Engineering at Hannam University. Professor Kim was the recipient of the Excellent Scientist Award of the Korean Chemical Society for Polymer Chemistry in 1998. He has published more than 95 communications, papers, and review articles, a number of chapters in books, and 13 patents. 

He held this post until 1967 when he returned to the UK as a lecturer at the University of Essex at Colchester. Here he assisted Professor Manfred Gordon to establish a Polymer Research Consortium, involving physicists, mathematicians, and chemists in polymer science problems of common interest. After two years in Essex, he was appointed to a senior lectureship in the new University of Stirling in Scotland, in 1969 and subsequently succeeded Professor R. P. Bell to the chair of chemistry in 1973. From 1974 to 1988 he was Head of Department at Stirling, but moved to Heriot-Watt University as foundation professor of chemistry of materials, the post he held until retirement in 1998. From then to the present, he has been Professor Emeritus (Research) and has continued working with his research group. 

Deanna L. Pickel joined the research staff at the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in July 2007. Her research interests are in the precise synthesis and characterization of well-defined materials, both in functionality and in architecture, to better understand the relationship between molecular structure and self-assembly at the nanoscale. In particular, she is interested in the use of MALDI-TOF MS to better understand the mechanism of various polymerization and functionalization chemistries. Deanna received her BS in chemistry and BA in mathematics in 1999 from Saint Mary s College in Notre Dame, IN, and PhD in 2003 from the University of Akron in polymer science under professor Roderic Quirk. Her doctoral research focused on the anionic synthesis and characterization of end functional polymers. She then joined Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN, where she worked on various process improvement projects and was a project leader for work on the weatherability of copolyesters. She moved to the Center for Nanophase Materials Science in July 2007, where she is a member of the Maaomolecular Nanomaterials Group. She is the recipient of the 2002 Eastman Chemical Company Fellowship, as well as a finalist in the 2002 Id Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. 

Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses principles of computer science to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses the results of theoretical chemistry, incorporated into efficient computer programs, to calculate the structures and properties of molecules and solids. The lignocellulosic materials are mainly made up of a complex network of three polymers cellulose, hemicellulose, and hgnin. Due to their hydrophilicity, biodegradability, biocompatibility and low toxicity, hemicelluloses have been studied by numerous research groups with respect to their use as composites in biomedical apphcations. 

Marc A. Hillmyer received his BS in chemistry from the Univereity of Florida in 1989 and his PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. After completing a postdoctoral research position in the University of Minnesota s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science he joined the Chemistry faculty at Minnesota in 1997. He is currently a Distinguished Mc iight Univereity Professor and leads a research group focused on the synthesis and self-assembly of multifunctional polymers. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Marc also serves as an associate editor for the ACS journal Macromolecules and is the director of the National Science Foundation supported Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota. 

Andrey V. Dobrynin is a professor of physics at the Institute of Materials Science and Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He received his BS (1987) and PhD (1991) degrees in polymer physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. He joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut in 2001. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include polyelectrolyte solutions and gels, charged polymers at surfaces and interfaces, electrostatic interactions in biological systems, soft-matter physics, and biophysics. More information is available from his research group web page www.ims.uconn.edu/ avd. 

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