Randolph S. Duran
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry
University of Florida

VOICE: (352) 392-2011

EMAIL: duran@chem.ufl.edu

HOMEPAGE: http://polymer4.chem.ufl.edu/

Research Interests

We are a dynamic research group with investigations involving conducting polymers, polymer and liquid crystal thin films, non-linear optics, scanning probe microscopy, Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn films, polymer glasses, x-ray diffractometry and reflectometry, and the physical, analytical, and organic studies of polymers in general.

Recent Publications

1. The Meso- and Microscopic Behaviour of Spherical Polymer Particles Assembling at the Air-Water Interface. Elizabeth Wolert, Stefan M. Setz, Royale S. Underhill, Randolph S. Duran*, Michel Schappacher, Alan Deffieux, Matthias Holderle, and Rolf Mulhaupt, Langmuir 2001, 17, 5671-5677.

2. Real-Time Crazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction Studies of Polymerizing n-Octadecyltrimeth-oxysilane Langmuir Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface. Stephen R. Carino, Holger Tostmann, Royale S. Underhill, Jennifer Logan, Gayanga Weerasekera, Jeffrey Culp, Mark Davidson and Randolph S. Duran*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001; 123; 767-768

3. Kloeppner LJ, Batten JH, Duran RS Surface behavior and polymerization of 2-and 3-(1-octadecynyl)aniline at the air-aqueous interface MACROMOLECULES 33: (21) 8006-8011 OCT 17 2000
Carino SR, Liu C, Logan JL, et al.Three approaches to network langmuir monolayers. ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 219: U500-U500 Part 2 MAR 26 2000

4. Kloeppner LJ, Duran RS Langmuir film polymerization of 1,22-bis(2-aminophenyl)docosane: A two-dimensional cross-linked polyalkylaniline J AM CHEM SOC 121: (35) 8108-8109 SEP 8 1999
Sigmund WM, Weerasekera G, Marestin C, et al.Polymerization of monolayers of 3-substituted pyrroles LANGMUIR 15: (19) 6423-6427 SEP 14 1999

5. Logan JL, Duran RS, Taton D, et al.Synthesis of well-defined C60 end-capped poly(ethylene oxide) stars and linear analogues. ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 217: U453-U453 Part 2 MAR 21 1999

6. Logan JL, Duran RS, Taton D, et al.Synthesis of well-defined C60 end-capped poly(ethylene oxide) stars and linear analogues.ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 217: U540-U540 Part 2 MAR 21 1999

7. Wagener KB, Duran RS, Reynolds JR A unified laboratory approach to teaching & research in polymer chemistry.ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 217: U630-U630 Part 2 MAR 21 1999

8. Herod TE, Duran RS Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal monolayers LANGMUIR 14: (24) 6956-6968 NOV 24 1998

9. Herod TE, Duran RS Two- and three-dimensional nanoparticles of liquid crystals prepared at the air/liquid interface LANGMUIR 14: (22) 6606-6609 OCT 27 1998

10. Kloeppner LJ, Duran RS Polymerization and surface behavior of alkyl-substituted aniline surfactants at the air-aqueous interface: A kinetic study LANGMUIR 14: (23) 6734-6742 NOV 10 1998

11. Batten JH, Li I, Duran RS Toward the synthesis of a copper(II) ion sensing polymer. ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 216: U43-U43 Part 3 AUG 23 1998

12. Setz SM, Duran RS, Fagerburg DR, et al. Single apex plowing at polymer surfaces using a nanoindenter diamond AFM tip ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 216: U142-U142 Part 3 AUG 23 1998

13. Benicewicz BC, Smith ME, Earls JD, et al.Magnetic field orientation of liquid crystalline epoxy thermosets MACROMOLECULES 31: (15) 4730-4738 JUL 28 1998