Derek L. Patton
Assistant Professor of
Polymer Science and Engineering
School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
Polymer Science Building, Room 312
118 College Drive #10076
Hattiesburg,MS 39406-0001
Phone:(601)-266-4229
Fax:(601)-266-5635
Email: derek.patton@usm.edu
Research
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Background
B.S., Chemistry, Jacksonville State University, 2000. M.S., Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2002. Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Houston, 2006. National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2006-2008. Assistant Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, 2008-present.
Research Areas
Synthesis and characterization of ultrathin polymer films, surface modification, surface-initiated polymerization, polymer brushes, polymerization kinetics at interfaces, controlled radical polymerization, biodegradable/biocompatible surfaces, microfluidics, combinatorial/gradient polymer surfaces, hybrid organic/inorganic polymers, flame retardant nanocomposites
Recent Publications
1. Yager, K. G.; Berry, B. C.; Page, K.; Patton, D.; Karim, A.; Amis, E. J., Disordered nanoparticle interfaces for directed self-assembly. Soft Matter 2009, 5, (3), 622-628.
2. Patton, D. L.; Taranekar, P.; Fulghum, T.; Advincula, R., Electrochemically Active Dendritic-Linear Block Copolymers via RAFT Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrodeposition Properties. Macromolecules (Washington, DC, United States) 2008, 41, (18), 6703-6713.
3. Taranekar, P.; Fulghum, T.; Patton, D.; Ponnapati, R.; Clyde, G.; Advincula, R., Investigating Carbazole Jacketed Precursor Dendrimers: Sonochemical Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemical Crosslinking Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, (41), 12537-12548.
4. Taranekar, P.; Fulghum, T.; Baba, A.; Patton, D.; Advincula, R., Quantitative electrochemical and electrochromic behavior of terthiophene and carbazole containing conjugated polymer network film precursors: EC-QCM and EC-SPR. Langmuir 2007, 23, (2), 908-917.
5. Patton, D. L.; Page, K. A.; Xu, C.; Genson, K. L.; Fasolka, M. J.; Beers, K. L., Measurement of Reactivity Ratios in Surface-Initiated Radical Copolymerization. Macromolecules (Washington, DC, United States) 2007, 40, (17), 6017-6020.
6. Taranekar, P.; Park, J.-Y.; Patton, D.; Fulghum, T.; Ramon, G. J.; Advincula, R., Conjugated polymer nanoparticles via intramolecular crosslinking of dendrimeric precursors. Advanced Materials (Weinheim, Germany) 2006, 18, (18), 2461-2465.
7. Taranekar, P.; Abdulbaki, M.; Krishnamoorti, R.; Phanichphant, S.; Waenkaew, P.; Patton, D.; Fulghum, T.; Advincula, R., Structure and Band-Gap Design of a New Series of Light-Emitting Poly(cyanofluorene-alt-o/m/p-phenylenevinylene)-Based Copolymers for Light-Emitting Diodes. Macromolecules 2006, 39, (11), 3848-3854.
8. Patton, D. L.; Advincula, R. C., A Versatile Synthetic Route to Macromonomers via RAFT Polymerization. Macromolecules 2006, 39, (25), 8674-8683.
9. Fulghum, T. M.; Patton, D. L.; Advincula, R. C., Fuzzy Ternary Particle Systems by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization from Layer-by-Layer Colloidal Core-Shell Macroinitiator Particles. Langmuir 2006, 22, (20), 8397-8402.
10. Patton, D. L.; Mullings, M.; Fulghum, T.; Advincula, R. C., A facile synthesis route to thiol-functionalized α,ω-telechelic polymers via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. Macromolecules 2005, 38, (20), 8597-8602.
11. Deng, S.; Locklin, J.; Patton, D.; Baba, A.; Advincula Rigoberto, C., Thiophene dendron jacketed poly(amidoamine) dendrimers: nanoparticle synthesis and adsorption on graphite. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, (6), 1744-51.
12. Deng, S.; Locklin, J.; Patton, D.; Baba, A.; Advincula, R. C., Thiophene Dendron Jacketed Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers: Nanoparticle Synthesis and Adsorption on Graphite. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, (6), 1744-1751.
13. Patton, D.; Locklin, J.; Meredith, M.; Xin, Y.; Advincula, R., Nanocomposite Hydrogen-Bonded Multilayer Ultrathin Films by Simultaneous Sexithiophene and Au Nanoparticle Formation. Chemistry of Materials 2004, 16, (24), 5063-5070.
14. Locklin, J.; Patton, D.; Deng, S.; Baba, A.; Millan, M.; Advincula, R. C., Conjugated Oligothiophene-Dendron-Capped CdSe Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Energy Transfer. Chemistry of Materials 2004, 16, (24), 5187-5193.