Charles L. McCormick

Professor of Polymer Science
School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
Polymer Science Building,Room 314
118 College Drive #10076
Hattiesburg,MS 39406-0001
Phone:(601)-266-4872
Fax:(601)-266-5504
Email: Charles.McCormick@usm.edu
Research Group Web Page

Background

BS, Chemistry, Millsaps College , 1968. PhD, Chemistry, University of Florida , 1973. Senior Research Chemist, AKZO, 1973-74. Visiting Professor Cambridge University , 1992. Royal Institute of Sweden , 1997. Department of Polymer Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1974-present. Professor, 1981-present. Bennett Distinguished Professor of Science, 1997-1999.

Research Areas

Stimuli responsive water-soluble polymers; controlled activity polymers; naturally occurring polysaccharides; pharmaceutical polymers; phase transfer polymeric micelles; recombinant DNA technologies to tailor water-soluble proteins; surface assembly of polyampholytes and amphipathic biopolymers.

Representative Publications, Patents

C.L. McCormick and A.B. Lowe, “Recent Developments in Synthesis of Functional Water-Soluble Copolymers with Controlled Structures" , Accounts of Chemical Research 37, 312-325 [2004]

A.J. Convertine, N.Ayres, C.W. Scales, A.B. Lowe, C.L. McCormick ,“Facile, Controlled, Room-Temperature RAFT Polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide”, Biomacromolecules 5, 1177-1180 [2004]

M.J. Fevola, J.K. Bridges, M.G. Kellum, R.D. Hester, C.L. McCormick, “pH-Responsive Ampholytic Terpolymers of Acrylamide, Sodium 3-acrylamido-3-methylbutanoate, and (3-acrylamidopropyl)trimethylammonium Chloride. I. Synthesis and Characterization”, Journal of Polymer Science: Part A-" Polymer Chemistry" , 42, 3236-3251 [2004]

D.B. Thomas, A.J. Convertine, R.D. Hester, A.B. Lowe, C.L. McCormick,"Hydrolytic Susceptibility of Dithioester Chain Transfer Agents and Implications in Aqueous RAFT Polymerizations", Macromolecules 37[5],1735-1741 [2004]

D.B. Thomas, Y.A. Vasilieva, R.S. Armentrout, C.L. McCormick,"Synthesis, Characterization, and Aqueous Solution behavior of Electrolyte- and pH-responsive Carboxybetaine-containing cyclocopolymers", Macromolecules 36[26], 9710-9715 [2003]

B.S. Sumerlin, A.B. Lowe, D.B. Thomas, C.L. McCormick,"Aqueous solution properties of pH-responsive AB diblock acrylamido copolymers synthesized via aqueous RAFT", Macromolecules 36[16], 5982-5987 [2003]

P.A. Stroud, J.S. Goodwin, P. Butko, G.C. Cannon, C.L. McCormick,"Experimental evidence for multiple assembled states of Sc3 from Schizophyllum commune", Biomacromolecules 4[4], 956-967 [2003]

S. M. Donovan, B.S. Sumerlin, A.B. Lowe, and C.L. McCormick,"Controlled Polymerization of Sulfobetaine Monomers Directly in Aqueous Media via RAFT" , Macromolecules 35, 8663-8666 [2002]

A.B. Lowe and C.L. McCormick,"Synthesis and Solution Properties of Zwitterionic (Co)Polymers" , Chemical Reviews 102[11], 4177-4190 [2002]

A.B. Lowe, B.S. Sumerlin, M.S. Donovan, and C.L. McCormick,"Facile Preparation of Transition Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Well-defined (Co)Polymers Synthesized via Aqueous RAFT" , Journal of American Society 124,11562-11563 [2002]

G. Martin, Gordon C. Cannon, and C.L. McCormick,"Sc3P Hydrophobin Association in Aqueous Media and Assembly onto Surfaces as Mediated by the Assocaited Polysaccharide Schizophyllan" , Biomacromolecules 1, 49-60 [2000]