Publication List

Mathers, R. T.; Damodaran, K.; Rendos, M. G.; Lavrich, M. S. Functional hyperbranched polymers using ring opening metathesis polymerizations of dicyclopentadiene with monoterpenes. Macromolecules 2009, 42, 1512-1518.

Damodaran, K.; Dhumal, N. R.; Mathers, R. T. Ab initio analysis of the local coordination environment of oligomers derived from polymerizing 5-Norbornene-2-Carboxylic acid. THEOCHEM 2008, 867, 5-9.

Mathers, R. T.; LeBlond, C.; Damodaran, K.; Kushner, D. I.; Schram, V. A. A general polymerization method using hydroalkoxylation and hydrocarboxylation reactions catalyzed by triflic acid. Macromolecules 2008, 41, 524-526.

Mathers, R. T.; Damodaran, K. Renewable chain transfer agents for metallocene polymerizations: The effects of chiral monoterpenes on the polyolefin molecular weight and isotacticity. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2007, 45, 3150-3165.

Mathers, R. T.; McMahon, K. C.; Damodaran, K.; Retarides, C. J.; Kelley, D. J. Ring open metathesis polymerizations in d-limonene: a renewable polymerization solvent and chain transfer agent for the synthesis of alkene macromonomers. Macromolecules 2006, 39, 8982 - 8986.

Yoon, J.; Mathers, R. T.; Coates, G. W.; Thomas, E. L. Optically Transparent and High Molecular Weight Polyolefin Block Copolymers toward Self-Assembled Photonic Band Gap Materials. Macromolecules 2006, 39, 1913-1919.

Fetters, L.J.; Lee, J.H.; Mathers, R.T.; Hustad, P.D.; Coates, G.W.; Archer, L.A.; Rucker, S.P.; Lohse, D.J. Influence of syndiotactic propylene units on the rheological parameters of poly(ethylene-propylene) copolymers. Macromolecules 2005, 38, 10061-10066.

De Rosa, Claudio; Circelli, Teresa; Auriemma, Finizia; Mathers, Robert T.; Coates, Geoffrey W. Structure and Physical Properties of Syndiotactic Polypropylene from Living Polymerization with Bis(phenoxyimine)-Based Titanium Catalysts. Macromolecules 2004, 37(24), 9034-9047.

Radulescu, A.; Mathers, R. T.; Coates, G. W.; Richter, D.; Fetters, L. J.  A SANS study of the self-assembly in solution of syndio-polypropylene homopolymers and syndio-polypropylene-block-poly(ethylene-co-propylene) diblock copolymers.  Macromolecules 2004, 37, 6962-6971.

Kameoka, J.; Ilic, R.; Czaplewski, D.; Mathers, R. T.; Coates, G. W.; Craighead, H. G.  Fabrication of blended polyphenylenevinylene nanowires by scanned electrospinning.    J. Photopolym. Sci.Technol. 2004, 17, 421-426.

Mathers, R. T.; Coates, G. W.  An efficient cross-metathesis functionalization of polyolefins.  Chem. Commun. 2004, 422-423.

Czaplewski, D.; Kameoka, J.; Mathers, R. T.; Coates, G. W.; Craighead, H. G.  Nanofluidic channels with elliptical cross sections formed using a nonlithographic process.  Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003, 83, 4836-4838.

Kameoka, J.; Orth, R.; Yang, Y.; Czaplewski, D.; Mathers, R.; Coates, G.; Craighead, H. G.  A scanning tip electrospinning source for deposition of oriented nanofibers. Nanotechnology 2003, 14, 1124-1129.

Quirk, R. P.; Cheong, T.-H.; Gomochak, D. L.; Yoo, T.; Andes, K. T.; Mathers, R. T.  Recent advances in the anionic synthesis of chain-end functionalized polymers. Macromol. Symp. 2003, 195, 69-74.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T.; Cregger, T.; Foster, M. D.  Anionic Synthesis of Block Copolymer Brushes Grafted from a 1,1-Diphenylethylene Monolayer.  Macromolecules 2002, 35, 9964-9974.

Penn, L. S.; Huang, H.; Sindkhedkar, M. D.; Chittenden, K.; Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T.; Lee, Y.  Formation of Tethered Nanolayers: Three Regimes of Kinetics. Macromolecules 2002, 35, 7054-7066.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T.; Wesdemiotis, C.; Arnould, M. A. Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Oligomerization during Functionalization of Poly(styryl)lithium Using MALDI-TOF MS and NMR. Macromolecules 2002, 35, 2912-2918.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T.; Ma, J.-J.; Wesdemiotis, C.; Arnould, M. A.     Reaction of polymeric organolithium compounds with ethylene oxide in hydrocarbon solution: determination of extent of oligomerization.  Macromol. Symp. 2002, 183, 17-22.

Quirk, R. P.; Mathers, R. T.  Surface-initiated living anionic polymerization of isoprene using a 1,1-diphenylethylene derivative and functionalization with ethylene oxide. Polym. Bull. 2001, 45, 471.

Kisliuk, A.; Mathers, R. T.; Sokolov, A. P. Crossover in dynamics of polymeric liquids: back to T_ll?  J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2000, 38, 2785-2790.

Jolly, M. R.; Bender, J. W.; Mathers, R. T.  Indirect Measurements of Microstructure Development in Magnetorheological Fluids.  Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 1999, 13, 2036-2043.