Presentations

August 2009, ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC (Oral presentation)

August 2008, ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia (Oral presentation)

February 2008, PPG Industries, PPG Coating Innovation Center Seminar Series (Invited talk)

June 2007, Polymers (East) Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA (Poster presentation)

Spring 2007, ACS National Meeting, Chicago (Oral presentation)

October 2006, ACS Pittsburgh Polymer Group, Pittsburgh, PA (Invited talk)

November 2005, Ohio Inorganic Chemistry Meeting, Kenyon College, OH (Poster presentation)

June 2005, Polymers (East) Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA (Poster presentation)

June 2003, Polymers (East) Gordon Research Conference, Holyoke, MA (Poster presentation)

September 2001, Polymer Symposium, Eastman Chemical Company (Poster presentation)

Fall 2001, ICI Student Award Symposium, ACS National Meeting, Chicago (Oral presentation)

June 2001, Synthesis and Properties of Polymers with Different Topologies Symposium, Central Regional Meeting, Grand Rapids

Spring 2001, Surfaces and Interfaces Symposium, ACS National Meeting, San Diego (Oral presentation)

Conference Proceedings

Mathers, R. T.; Kushner, D. I.; Schram, V. A. Solvent-free green polymerization method for polyesters using hydrocarboxylation reactions. Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 2008, 49, 807.

Mathers, R. T.; McMahon, K. C.; Baker, J. R. Utilizing d-limonene as a chain transfer agent and renewable solvent for ring opening metathesis polymerizations. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2007, 96, 842.

Czaplewski, D.; Kameoka, J.; Mathers, R.; Coates, G.; Craighead, H. G.  Novel polymeric nanofiber deposition processing for MEMS device fabrication.  Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 2003, 44(2), 117.

Penn, L. S.; Huang, H.; Sindkhedkar, M. D.; Rankin, S. E.; Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T. Tethered polymers for surface tailoring: kinetics of layer construction. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society 2002, 25, 453-454.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T. Surface grafted poly(isoprene-block-ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer brushes from a 1,1-diphenylethylene surface-bound monolayer.   Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2001, 85, 198-199.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T. Surface grafting to and from 1,1-diphenylethylene using a surface-bound monolayer and functionalization of the living chain ends with ethylene oxide. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2001, 84, 873-874.