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Rauscher Lecturer Announced
The polymer center at Rensselaer is pleased to welcome alumnus Douglas Robello as this year's guest speaker for the 35th annual William H. Rauscher Memorial Lecture.
Douglas Robello,'86
Robello's topic will be "Photoinitiated Chain Reactions in Solid Polymers: New Materials for Holographic Recording." Details on the April 2008 event will be announced soon.
Robello is a chemist at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, and is a member of Kodak's Distinguished Inventors Gallery. He has served as chair of the organic chemistry and polymer science councils. In addition, Robello has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests encompass polymer and organic synthesis for applications in digital imaging, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology. Robello is a co-inventor on 38 U.S. patents and has co-authored 50 scientific publications.
History of the Rauscher Lecture Series
The annual Rauscher lecture series at Rensselaer honors the memory of William Rauscher who spent more than 30 years at Rensselaer as student, mentor, and colleague. Following his death in 1972, friends and faculty established the William H. Rauscher Lectureships to honor his devotion to both the program and his areas of special interest.
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Recent Publications
With nearly 20 researchers affiliated with the NYS Center for Polymer Synthesis, work is published on an ongoing basis. New publications include:
NMR Studies of Mass Transport in High Acid Content Fuel Cell Membranes Based on Phosphoric Acid and Polybenzimidazole
J.R.P. Jayakody, S.H. Chung, L. Durantino, H. Zhang, L. Xiao, B.C. Benicewicz, S.G. Greenbaum
J. Electrochem. Soc., 2007, 154(2), B242-B246.
Designed Interfaces in Polymer Nanocomposites: A Fundamental Viewpoint
L.S. Schadler, S.K. Kumar, B.C. Benicewicz, S.L. Lewis, S.E. Harton
MRS Bulletin, 2007, 32, 335-340.
Mother Nature as a Source of New Materials: Everything Old Is New Again
J. A. Moore
Abstracts of Papers, 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August, 2007, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Abstr.# 254.
Dead Leaves and Lawn Clippings: Waste or Opportunity?
J. A. Moore
Abstracts of Papers, IUMACRO 2007, 2nd Strategic Polymer Symposium, Brooklyn, NY, June, 2007, Abstr. #S5.
High-Affinity, Low-Molecular-Mass Displacers for Ion-Exchange Chromatography
Tugcu, Nihal; Park, Sun Kyu; Moore, James A.; Cramer, Steven M.
U. S. Pat.# 7,189,3240, March 13, 2007.
Effect of Zinc, Copper, and Calcium on the Structure and Stability of Serum Amyloid A
Wang, L. and Colón, W.
Biochemistry, 2007, 46, 5562-5569.
A Truncated Peptide Model of the Mutant P61A FIS Forms a Stable Dimer
Moriarty, D.F.; Fiorillo, C.; Miller, C.; Colón, W.
Biochim. Biophys., 2007, Acta, 1774, 78-85.
Applications for Photoacid Generation in Photoimaging and Nanotechnology
J.V. Crivello
J. Photopolymer Science and Technology, 2007. 20(4), 599.
Photoactivated Frontal Polymerizations of Alkyl Glycidyl Ethers
J.V. Crivello
ACS Meeting, March 25-29, 2007, Polymer Preprints, 2007, 48(1), 317.
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