Current Research Group:  Kristen Ronca, Will Coyne, Ben McFadden, Chris Valente, Eric Tillman, Liz Carnicom, Will Butcher, Caroline Merrell

Group news:  

• Welcome to new group members Kenny Myers (MS student from Bloomsburg), Liz Carnicom (’15), Chris Valente (’14), and Caroline Merrell (’13).
• Congratulations and best wishes to Andy and Carolyn, who recently got married and started graduate programs at University of Wisconsin.
• Recent MS graduates Scott Radzinski (Virginia Tech) and Phil Pickett (U. of Southern Miss.) have moved on to PhD programs.

Recent publications: 

Voter, A.F.*; Tillman, E.S.; Findeis, P.; Radzinski, S.C.*;  “Synthesis of Macrocyclic Polymers Formed via Intramolecular Radical Trap-Assisted Atom Transfer Radical Coupling” Macro Letters 2012, 1, 1066-1070.

Pickett, P.D.*; Radzinski, S.C.*; Tillman, E.S. ”Probing the Effects of Pi-pi Stacking on the Controlled Radical Polymerization of Styrene and Fluorinated Styrene” Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2012, 1, 156-165.

Radzinski, S.C.*; Tillman, E.S.; “Trapping Polystyrene Radicals With Nitrones:  Synthesis of Polymers With Mid-Chain Alkoxyamine Functionality” Polymer 2011, 26, 6003-6010.

Butcher, W.E.*; Tillman, E.S.  “Hydrogen Abstraction Followed by Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization:  Synthesis of 2,7-Dibromofluorene-Labeled Polystyrene” Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2011, 212, 2224-2233.

 Pickett, P.D.*; Tillman, E.S.; Voter, A.F.* ”Effect of Pi-pi Stacking on the Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Styrene”Polymer 2011, 52, 55-62.

*Bucknell student