Department of Polymer Science

 

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Coleen Pugh

 

Professor of Polymer Science

  • Ph.D,  Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1990

  • M.S., Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1985

  • B.A., Chemistry, University of California, Davis; B.S., Textile Science, University of California, Davis, 1983

Research Interests

  • Synthesis and characterization of novel polymer materials using living polymerizations and new organic reactions: Side-chain liquid crystalline polymers, amphiphilic polymers, homopolyrotaxanes and other molecular architectures; fluorinated polymers

Contact Information

  • Dr. Coleen Pugh
    The University of Akron
    Department of Polymer Science
    Akron, Ohio 44325-3909

  • Email: cpugh@uakron.edu

  • Voice: (330) 972-6614

  • Fax: (330) 972-5290

Recent Publications

A.M. Kasko and C. Pugh, "Comparison of the Thermotropic and Solution Behavior of Six-Arm Star and Comb Poly[11-(4'-cyanophenyl-4"-phenoxy)undecyl acrylate]s", Macromolecules, 39, 6800-6810 (2006).

C. Pugh, P. Zhu, G.H. Kim, J.X. Zheng, M.J. Rubal and S.Z.D. Cheng, "Synthesis of Laterally-Attached Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polynorbornenes with High Mesogen Density by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization", J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed., 44, 4076-4087 (2006).

M. Paz-Pazos and C. Pugh, "Synthesis of Optically Active Copolymers of 2,3,4,5,6-Pentafluorostyrene and b-Pinene with Low Surface Energies", J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed., 44, 3114-3124 (2006).

C. Pugh, G. Fan and A.M. Kasko, "Measurement of Chain Transfer Constants to Polymer Using Oligomers and Model Compounds:  Chain Transfer to Poly[11-(4'-cyanophenyl-4"-phenoxy)undecyl acrylate] in Radical Polymerization", Macromolecules, 38, 8071-8077 (2005). 

K.M. Wollyung, K. Xu, M. Cochran, A.M. Kasko, W.L. Mattice, C. Wesdemiotis and C. Pugh, "Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Studies of an Amphiphilic Polyether-Based Rotaxane that Lacks an Enthalpic Driving Force for Threading", Macromolecules, 38, 2574-2586 (2005). 

M. Paz-Pazos and C. Pugh, "Synthesis, Isolation and Thermal Behavior of Polybutadiene Grafted with Poly(pentafluorostyrene)", J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed., 43, 2874-2891 (2005). 

S.S. Rane, W.L. Mattice and C. Pugh, "Modification of Statistical Threading in Two-Component Pseudorotaxane Melts Using the Amphiphilic Approach and Variations in the Confinement Geometry", J. Chem. Phys., 120, 10299-10306 (2004).

G. Xu, S.S. Rane, C.A. Helfer, W.L. Mattice and C. Pugh, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Solvent Effects on the Threading of Poly(ethylene oxide)", Modeling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 12, S59-S71 (2004). 

A.M. Kasko and C. Pugh, "Solution Behavior of Topological Isomers of Poly[11-(4'-cyanophenyl-4"-phenoxy)undecyl acrylate]s Prepared by Atom Transfer and Conventional Radical Polymerizations", Macromolecules, 37, 4993-5001 (2004).

C.A. Helfer, G. Xu, W.L. Mattice and C. Pugh, "Monte Carlo Simulations Investigating the Threading of Cyclic Poly(ethylene oxide) by Linear Chains in the Melt", Macromolecules, 36, 10071-10078 (2003).

Y.C. Chiang, A.M. Jamieson, Y. Zhao, A.M. Kasko and C. Pugh, "Effect of Molecular Weight on the Electrorheological Behavior of Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers in Nematic Solvents," Polymer, 43, 4887 (2002).

 

A.M. Kasko, S.R. Grunwald and C. Pugh, "The Effect of Endgroups on the Thermotropic Behavior of Linear Poly{11-[(4'-cyanophenyl-4"-phenoxy)undecyl] acrylate}s Prepared by ATRP and their Topological Blends," Macromolecules, 35, 5466 (2002).

S.V. Arehart and C. Pugh, "5-[[[2',5'-Bis[(4"-n-(perfluorohexyl)butyloxy)benzoyl)oxy]benzyl]oxy]carbonyl]b
icyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene and Poly{5-[[[2',5'-bis[(4"-n-(perfluorohexyl)butyloxy)benzoyloxy]benzyl]oxy]carbony

l]bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene}," Macromolecular Syntheses, 12, 123 (2002).

 

A.C. Small and C. Pugh, "Induction of Smectic Layering in Nematic Liquid Crystals Using Immiscible Components. 5. Laterally Attached Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Poly(norbornene)s and their Low Molar Mass Analogs with Short Fluorocarbon Segments,"Macromolecules, 35, 2105 (2002).

 

C. Chang and C. Pugh, "Synthesis and Miscibility of Comb Poly[11-(4'-cyanophenyl-4"-phenoxy)undecyl acrylate]s Prepared by ATRP," Macromolecules, 34, 2027 (2001).

 

C. Pugh, A.C. Small, C.A. Helfer and W.L. Mattice, "Induction of Smectic Layering in Nematic Liquid Crystals Using Immiscible Components. 4. The Effect of Bulky Lateral Carboxyl Substituents on the Thermotropic Behavior of 2,5-Bis[4'-n-perfluoroheptyl)octyloxy)benzoyl)oxy]toluene," Liq. Cryst., 28, 991 (2001).

 

G.H. Kim, S. Jin, C. Pugh and S.Z.D. Cheng, "Effect of the substituents on the phase structure and transition 

behavior of a series of laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline polynorbornenes," J. Polym. Sci., 

Polym. Phys. Ed., 40, 3029 (2001).

 

G.H. Kim, C. Pugh and S.Z.D. Cheng, "A New Route to Stabilize the Smectic C Phase in a Series 

of Laterally Attached Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polynorbornenes with a One-Carbon Spacer," 

Macromolecules, 33, 8983 (2000).

 

C. Pugh, "Selective Reduction of 2,5-Bis[(4'-(methoxy)benzoyl)oxy]benzaldehyde without 

Intramolecular Transesterification," Org. Letters, 2, 1329 (2000).

 

 
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