Prof. Todd Emrick - Portland Local Section

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May 2015
RTLAND Section Newsletter
CELEBRATING 54 YEARS
Vol. 54, Number 5
Prof.
Todd
Emrick
Director, National Science Foundation Materials Research Science
and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Polymers at UMass Amherst
presents a talk entitled
Advancing polymer chemistry
at interfaces and in interlayers
using Nature’s functionality
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Reed College Vollum Lounge
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
Reed College Campus Map
(Vollum Campus Center is No. 38 on the Reed College Map)
Schedule: 6:00 PM social—6:45 PM buffet dinner—
7:30 PM presentation of 50-60 year service awards—7:45 PM talk
For dinner reservations call the Section phone 503 230 9803 by Monday evening May
11 and leave your name (spell out name), phone number, number of persons and meal
preference (meat or vegan entrée) or use the online form. If you make a meal reservation and do not attend please send payment ($20) to Bernard Carlsen, 17463 Shalit Way,
Lake Oswego OR 97035-5435.
Portland Section website: http://portland-or.sites.acs.org
Abstract: “Advancing polymer chemistry at interfaces
and in interlayers using Nature’s functionality”. Todd
Emrick Director, National Science Foundation Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on
Polymers at UMass Amherst.
Nature provides a breadth of functionality for integration into synthetic polymers, including amino acids,
oligonucleotides and peptides, and any of a variety of natural products. This lecture will examine the role of zwitterions in synthetic polymers, in which the strong dipoles
and generally hydrophilc properties of zwitterions offer
new possibilities in polymer synthesis and new emerging
applications. Two specific topics in this lecture include:
1) attachment of sulfobetaine zwitterions to conjugated
polymers as a route to cathode modification layers and
high efficiency polymer-based solar cells; and 2) attachment of phosphorylcholine zwitterions to synthetic polymers (such as methacrylates, polyolefins, and polyesters) that enable new, effective routes in aqueous-based
formulations (i.e., cancer drug delivery) and fundamental
interfacial phenomena (such as emulsion stabilization
and particulate transport).
Chemical Society and ACS-PMSE, and in 2014 was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Recognition of members having served 50 or 60 years
of continuous Society Membership
At the May 14 meeting the Section will recognize
three sixty-year members:
Arleigh Dodson
Tom Dunne
Don Gilbert
The Section will recognize eleven fifty-year members:
Fritz Kokesh
Larry Bone
Harold Nelson
Jim Currie
Walter Partenheimer
Andrew Held
Robert Rieck
Roger Heusser
Carl Wamser
Donald Jacobsen
Lawrence Jacoby
Portland Section Silver Chemists Meeting
Monday, May 4, 2015
The Scientific Career of Henry Taube, presentation
by Jim Hurst with contribution from Tom Dunne
Gustav’s German Restaurant
5035 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97213
Lunch at 12:00, program at 1:00.
Reservations for lunch and program required by
May 1: email warren.ford@okstate.edu
Jim Hurst is semi-retired after a career as Professor at
the Oregon Graduate Center and at Washington State
University. Tom Dunne is Professor Emeritus from Reed
College. Both Jim and Tom worked in the Taube lab as
young chemists.
Bio: Todd Emrick completed his undergraduate degree
in Chemistry at Juniata College in 1992, where he was
introduced to organic synthesis research by Professor
I. David Reingold. Todd’s Ph.D. is from the University of
Chicago, where he studied carbon-carbon bond forming
reactions that afford dimers and higher oligomers of the
caged hydrocarbon cubane. Following postdoctoral work
at U California Berkeley with Jean Frechet, he started his
independent career in 2001 in the Polymer Science and
Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Todd was tenured in 2007 and promoted
to Full Professor in 2011. His research interests span a
breadth of organic/polymer/nanomaterials synthesis and
assembly, with interests in new monomer design, polymerization chemistry, interfacial chemistry and emulsion
stabilization, aqueous polymer assembly and polymer
therapeutics, and polymer thin films for enhancing transport properties. Todd has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is the inventor on 15 issued
patents. He is Director of the UMass Amherst Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers,
an NSF-funded Center, and additionally works on projects supported by DOE, NIH, DOD, and the FAA. Todd
has received the NSF CAREER Award, the Doolittle
Award from the PMSE Division of the American Chemical Society, and the Carl S. Marvel Award for Creative
Polymer Chemistry. Todd is a Fellow of the American
Portland Section Prepares to move from mailed
printed meeting notices to email meeting notice
As of March 2015, 94% of Portland Section members show valid email addresses in eroster, which is the
monthly database of member information that the Society provides to Local Sections.
The Portland Local Section Executive Committee
proposes to discontinue mailed meeting notices as a
cost-saving measure. Members who have opted out of
email or who have no email address in eroster will not be
affected and need do nothing; those members will continue to receive mailed meeting notices for ACS events.
To meet the needs of all members, however, the
mailed notice for the May 14, 2015 meeting provides
members the option to continue to receive printed mailed
meeting notices for future meetings of the Portland Section ACS. Follow instructions to return the postcard.
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