Contact Information:
Chemistry Laboratory Building Room 210
PO Box 117200
Gainesville , Florida 32611-7200
Phone: (352) 392-2012
Fax: (352) 392-9741
Butler Polymer Program Head
About the Program:
The Polymer Chemistry Program includes several research groups in the broad areas of organic, inorganic, analytical, and physical chemistry. Research interests include:
- Polymer synthesis methodology
- Transition metal-catalyzed polymerization
- Novel polymerization mechanisms
- Monomer structure/reactivity relationships
- pi-Conjugated polymers and conjugated polyelectrolytes
- Electronic, electrochemical, and electrochromic properties of polymers
- Chalcogen-rich multi-metallic complexes
- Polymer solar cells and light emitting diodes
- Monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn films
- Scanning Probe Microscopy, X-Ray diffractometry and reflectometry
- Polymer and liquid crystal thin films
- Polymer thin films — fabrication, characterization and applications
- Ion channel membranes
- Non-linear optics
- Optical properties of conjugated polymers
- Supramolecular assemblies and polymers
- Structure/property/function relationships in reversible materials
- Gels, liquid crystals, and organized phases
- Polymers from biorenewable feedstocks
- Biodegradable polymers
Faculty
Ronald K. Castellano
Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor and Chair
Coray Colina
Professor Emeritus
Austin M. Evans
Assistant Professor
Gail E. Fanucci
Professor
Stephen A. Miller
Professor, Associate Chair
Amal Narayanan
Assistant Professor
Daniel A. Savin
Associate Professor
Brent S. Sumerlin
George B. Butler Professor
Adam S. Veige
V.T. and Louise Jackson Professor
Kenneth B. Wagener
Butler Professor Emeritus