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Education
- A.A., Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA, 1980
- B.S., Textile Science, University of California, Davis, 1983
- B.A., Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 1983
- M.S., Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1985
- Ph.D., Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1990
- Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry, 1990-1991
Principal Research Interests
Synthesis and characterization of novel polymeric materials, including amphiphilic organic nanoparticles, functionalized biodegradable polymers, biomaterials, cyclic polymers, fluorinated polymers and materials with arene-perfluoroarene pi-pi stacking interactions, glycopolymers, sustainable materials, and liquid crystalline polymers, using both step and living chain polymerizations to produce polymers with a range of molecular architectures.
Representative Publications
- Mehta, B.; Watt, P.; Soucek, M.D.; Pugh, C. Moderate Temperature Curing of Plant Oils with Bismaleimdes via the Ene Reaction. Industrial & Eng. Chem. Res. 2016, 55, 11727-11735. DOI 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b03004. One of 20 papers included in the I&EC Research Virtual Special Issue Invited Papers from ACS San Diego http://pubs.acs.org/page/iecred/vi/sandiego-national-meeting2016. Highlighted in Advances in Engineering: .
- Nakano, S.; Piedrahita, C.R.; Onozuka, R.; Adachi, K.; Tsukahara, Y.; Pugh, C.; Kyu, T. Effect of Chain Architectures of Star-Shaped Poly(ethylene glycol) Macromonomers on Enhancement of Thermal, Mechanical, and Electrochemical Performance of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes. Chem. Lett. (Jpn) 2018, 47, 587-590; .
- Raut, P.; Swanson, N.; Kulkarni, A.; Pugh, C.; Jana, S.C. Poly(butadiene-graft-pentafluorostyrene) as a Coupling Agent for Carbon Black Filled Rubber Compounds. Polymer 2018, 148, 247-258.
- Debnath, D.; Baughman, J.A.; Datta, S.; Weiss, R.A.; Pugh, C. Determination of the Radical Reactivity Ratios of 2-(N-Ethylperfluorooctanesulfonamido)ethyl Acrylate and Methacrylate in Copolymerizations with N,N-Dimethylacrylamide by in-situ 1H NMR Analysis as Established for Styrene Methyl Methacrylate Copolymerizations. Macromolecules 2018, 51, 7951-7963; chosen as ACS Editors Choice, open access.
- Kulkarni, A.; Pugh, C.; Jana, S.C.; Wims, D.T.; Gawad, A.A. Crosslinking of SBR Compounds for Tire Tread Using Benzocyclobutene Chemistry. (ACS) Rubber Chem. Tech. 2019, 92, 25-42; published on-line November 2018.