LATEST GROUP NEWS:

2024:

Check out our latest group publication in ACS Applied Polymer Materials (student co-authors: Elizabeth Hays and Gracie Eicher): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c02815

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Undergraduate polymer/material science chemistry majors Lauren Trout and Marisa Thompson are headed to the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans in March to present their research!

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2023: 

Coming Spring 2023! The new Murray State University Fuel Cell Laboratory! Funded by grants from NSF-Kentucky EPSCoR and co-led by Dr. Aleck Leedy (Engineering, MSU)

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2022:
Congrats to Elizabeth McGrew and George Timmermann on their excellent poster presentations, given in sunny San Juan, PR, as part of SERMACS 2022.

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We are excited to announce new funding from the NSF-MRI program to support the purchase of a new GPC unit, complete with dynamic light scattering, to support research and instructional activities with undergraduates at at Murray State!

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Publication in Recycling - utilizing polyethylene plastic waste as fuels! https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling7030029

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2021:

Our latest publication in the Journal of Polymer Science includes cover art (!) on our novel ionene networks prepared from thiol-yne photopolymerization. (Dec 2021)

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We are excited to announce our most recent grant funding from the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation!! A collaborative RUI proposal with Rutgers University - Camden to convert sustainable cellulose sources to electroactive materials.

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More exciting research from our group: How does counteranion and humidity effect ionic conductivity of ionene networks? See our results here in Polymer: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2021.123641

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Brand new ionene-PIL composites as a new avenue to conductive materials! Collaborative work with Katie O'Harra and Dr. Jason Bara at the University of Alabama. Congrats to current undergraduate PolySci Chem major George Timmermann for the publication in ACS Applied Polymer Materials: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsapm.1c00080

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Congrats to undergraduate and future Ph.D. candidate Rose Miller on her publication in ACS Applied Polymer Materials! Also helping out on the project were recent MSU grads Vanessa Smith and Sarah Byron and Stacey Love and Dr. David Salas-de la Cruz from Rutgers-Camden! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsapm.0c01327  

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