2/03/12: Congratulations to the USM ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) Student Chapter Executive Officers (Ryan Hensarling, Sarah Exley, Brad Sparks, and Emily Hoff).  The chapter's proposal was selected for funding!  The chapter will recieved $1000 from the POLY and PMSE divisions to support professional development and outreach activities. 

1/20/12: Congrats to Brad Sparks, Tim Kuchera,  and coauthors!  Their manuscript entitled "Cyclic tetravinylsiloxanetetraols as hybrid inorganic-organic thiol-ene networks" was published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry. http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C2JM15484F 

11/14/11: Congrats to Santosh, Ryan, and Brad!  Their manuscript entitled "Synthesis of multfunctional polymer brush surface via sequential and orthogonal thiol-click reactions" was published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry. http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C1JM14762E

10/26/11: Congratulations to Ryan Hensarling and coauthors on winning the RSC Polymer Chemistry Best Poster Award at the International Stimuli Responsive Symposium.

9/22/11:  Derek gave an invited presentation in the Chemistry Dept. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

9/01/11:  Congratulations to Ryan Hensarling and coauthors for a Polymer Division Best Poster Award at the National ACS Meeting in Denver, CO!

9/01/11:  The Patton Group had a great showing at the ACS National Meeting in Denver!  The group presented 3 oral presentations and 5 posters.

8/22/11:  Our new Bruker Icon AFM has arrived!

8/04/11:  Congratulations to Timothy Kuchera and his REU Graduate Advisor Bradley Sparks - Tim won the REU 1st Place Best Paper and a $1000 Travel Award!!   

5/31/11:  The Patton Group welcomes REU students Ginger Tyson (Huntington College), Timothy Kuchera (Univ. of Buffalo), Tasia Bryson (Chicago State Univ.), and high school student Laken Kendrick (FCAHS).

5/31/11: Derek was awarded the Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award sponsored by the USM Faculty Senate and the Office of the President.

5/30/11:    The Patton Group coauthors a manuscript with the Locklin Group (Univ. of Georgia) entitled "Thiolene-based microfluidic flow cells for surface plasmon resonance imaging" Biomicrofluidics 2011, in press.  Link

4/19/11:   The Patton Group welcomes Ph.D. students Emily Hoff and Wei Guo!

4/19/11:   Congratulations to Brad, Jake and coauthors!  Their manuscript entitled "Synthesis of Thiol-Clickable and Block Copolypeptide Brushes via Nickel-Mediated Surface Initiated Polymerization of α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides (NCAs)" was accepted for publication in Chemical Communications.  This communication has been selected to feature on the inside front cover of the journal.  http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C1CC11534K

3/28/11:   Derek gave an invited presentation in the "Partnerships and New Analytical Methodologies at the Interface of Chemistry and Art" symposium at the Anaheim ACS meeting.

3/15/11:   Ryan visited Laural Middle School to promote polymer science at the Career Fair.

2/21/11:   Congrats to Matt Jungman on being selected as an NSF GK-12 fellow. 

1/21/11:    Congrats to Brad and Kristen Sparks on the new addition to their family, Harley Blair (4 lbs 10 oz)!   

1/15/11:    Derek received the NSF CAREER Award for the proposal entitled CAREER: Functional Polymer Surfaces and Networks via Thiol-Click Chemistry

1/14/11:    Derek presented a poster at the Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA.

12/8/10:    Ryan's communication on thiol-isocyanate click reactions for functional surfaces was highlighted on the Inside Front Cover of Polymer Chemistry.

12/2/10:    Derek Patton and Jason Locklin (Univ. of Georgia) co-organized a "Functional Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces" symposium at the joint Southeast/Southwest Regional ACS meetiing in New Orleans.

11/23/10:   Ryan's communication on thiol-isocyanate click reactions for functional surfaces was highlighted as a Polymer Chemistry "Hot Article".  Read the highlight on Polymer Chemistry Blog. 

11/1/10:    Congrats to Bradley Sparks and Jananee Narayanan for successfully defended their Prospectus of Research!

10/19/10:  Congratulations to Ryan, Santosh, Arthur, and Brad!   Their manuscript entitled "Thiol-Isocyanate “Click” Reactions: Rapid Development of Functional Polymeric Surfaces" was published as a communication in Polymer Chemistry. http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C0PY00292E

09/28/10:  Patton and graduate student Bradley Sparks visited the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to tour facilities and participate in a stone conservation demo.

09/23/10:  Patton, in partnership with NCPTT and Hybrid Plastics, was awarded an NSF SCIART grant entitled "Modified POSS Polymers for Stone Conservation". Link to NCPPT Blog.

09/22/10:  The Patton Group welcomes undergraduates Jake Reid and Jared Cobb to the group! 

09/15/10:  Congrats to Ryan Hensarling!  Ryan successfully defended his Prospectus of Research!

08/24/10:  Derek presented an invited talk in the Thiol-X Symposium at the Boston ACS meeting.  Santosh also presented his work on multi-clickable surfaces in the same symposium.

08/01/10:  Congrats to Austin Baranek!  He was selected as a 2010 NSF GK-12 Fellow!

06/05/10: Brad and Ryan presented at the Graduate Research Polymer Conference held at the Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

06/01/10: The Patton Group welcomes REU's Wendy Marth (Valparaiso College), Jake Reid (Copiah-Lincoln Community College), and Ellis Crawford (Oak Grove High School)!

05/15/10: Congrats to Steven Suggs on completion of his B.S. in Polymer Science!

05/01/10: The Patton Group Welcomes Ph.D. students Jananee Narayanan Sivakami (Mumbai University) and Matthew Jungman (Texas A&M)!

02/12/10:  Congratulations to Ryan Hensarling and Brad Sparks!  Ryan was awarded 1^st place and Brad was a co-recipient of 2^nd place in the Waterborne Symposium Student Poster Competition.

02/10/10:  Austin presented a poster entitled: "Synthesis of Tethered Triazole Aromatic Polymer Systems for High
Temperature, Low Humidity Proton Transport" at the Waterborne Symposium in New Orleans.

02/10/10:  Santosh presented a poster entitled: "Towards the Synthesis of Multicomponent and Multi-Clickable
Polymer Brushes" at the Waterborne Symposium in New Orleans.

02/10/10:  Brad presented a poster entitled: "Synthesis of Polypeptide Brushes via Surface-Initiated Polymerization of
α-Amino Acid-N-Carboxyanhydrides (NCAs)" at the Waterborne Symposium in New Orleans.

02/10/10: Ryan presented a poster entitled "'Clicking'" Polymer Brushes using Thiol-yne Chemistry: Indoors and Out" at the Waterborne Symposium.

02/09/10:  Jun presented a poster entitled: "Preparation and Properties of POSS-Grafted Polyphosphazenes" at the POLY Composites Workshop in New Orleans.

10/27/09:  Derek gave a presentation entitled "Thiol-Click Chemistry: A Versatile Route to Functional Polymer Surfaces" at the International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials

10/27/09: Ryan presented a poster entitled "'Clicking'" Polymer Brushes using Thiol-yne Chemistry: Indoors and Out" at the International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials 

09/24/09:  Congratulations to Ryan Hensarling, Vanessa Doughty, and Justin Chan!  Their manuscript entitled "Clicking Polymer Brushes with Thiol-yne Chemistry: Indoors and Out" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as a communication. 

08/10/09:  The Patton Group welcomes Dr. Santosh Rahane as a postdoctoral researcher.

04/22/09:  The Patton Group welcomes Ph.D. students Austin Baranek (St. Norbert College), Ryan Hensarling (USM), and Brad Sparks (Texas Lutheran)!

03/24/09:  Derek presented "Surface-Initiated Polymerization of Phosphoranimine: A Route to Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Polyphosphazene Brushes" at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City, UT

10/20/08:  The Patton Research Group welcomes Dr. Jun Li as a postdoctoral researcher.

08/20/08:  The Patton Research Group welcomes two undergraduate students to the lab: Joel Huber and Arthur LeBlanc!

07/16/08:  DLP joins the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at USM