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Dr. S. Richard Turner
Director, Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute
E-mail: srturner@vt.edu
Office: 2 Davidson Hall
Phone: 540-231-4552
Fax: 540-231-3971
Group Web Pages: http://www.mii.vt.edu/GroupWebPage/index.html


Education

B.S. in Chemistry - 1964 - Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
M.S. in Chemistry - 1966 - Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
Ph.D. in Chemistry - 1971 - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Post Doc in Polymer Chemistry - 1972 - Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany

Research Interests

Synthesis and characterization of step-growth hyper-branched ion-containing polymers, and novel-responsive polymers.

Selected Publications

  1. "Amorphous Copolyesters Containing Monomers Derived from Bisphenols," High Performance Polymers 17, 361 (2005) with B. King, J. Ponasik, V. Adams, and G. Connell.
  2. "Development of Amorphous Copolyesters Based on 1,4-Cyclohexanedimethanol," J. Polym. Sci. Part A Polym. Chem. 42, 5847 (2004).
  3. "Amorphous and Crystalline Polyesters Based on 1,4-Cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM)," "Modern Polyesters" 2003, Wiley, editors, J. Scheirs and T. Long, with R. Seymour and J. Dombroski.
  4. "Effect of rod-like imide unit on crystallization of copoly(ethylene terephthalate-imide)" Polymer 43, 7377 (2002) with Q-F. Zhou et al.
  5. "Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Reinforced by N,N'-DiphenylBiphenyl-3,3',4,4'-tetracaroxydiimide Moieties" J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem. 40, 852 (2002) with Q-F. Zhou, et al.


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