Research Areas  
  • Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerizations
  • Monomer structure/reactivity relationships
  • Catalyst structure/reactivity relationships
  • Modeling polymer crystallization behavior
  • Synthesis of new biopolymers, copolymers, and elastomeric thermosets.

 
Contact us!

The Wagener Research Group
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7200


(352) 392-4666 (Prof. Ken Wagener)
(352) 392-2000 (Any group member)
(352) 392-9741 (Fax)

wagener@chem.ufl.edu

 

   

Wagener Christmas 2009

Top Row: Henry Martinez, Kevin Wei, Brian Aitken, Sam Popwell, Bora Inci, Luke Fisher, Dr. Ken Wagener, Chet Simocko

Bottom Row: Anne Melnichuk, Paula Delgado, Yuying Wei, Margaret Wagener, Erin Fisher, Kate Opper, Ashlyn Dennis, Christy Popwell, Diane Turek
Not Pictured: Dr. Fabio Zuluaga, Pascale Atallah, Jason Heffley, Chip Few, Andree Koop

 

 

   

Wagener Group 2009

Top Row: Luke Fisher, Dr. Ken Wagener, Sam Popwell, Bora Inci, Chip Few, Brian Aitken, Ashlyn Dennis, Andree Koop.

Bottom Row: Jason Heffley, Chet Simocko, Yuying Wei, Diane Turek, Paula Delgado, Pascale Atallah, Kate Opper, Dr. Kathryn Williams
Not Pictured: Dr. Fabio Zuluaga

 

 

Watch ADMET in action using Schrock's catalyst (18 MB)and Grubbs' Catalyst (6 MB).

The movies are in AVI format; they can be viewed using Windows Media Player or Quicktime.

 

 

Other links of interest:

The George and Josephine Butler Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Web Site
UF Chemistry Department Web Site | University of Florida Web Site

Web site mantained by Brian Aitken and Ken Wagener.