On top of signing a record deal with Young Money Entertainment this week (Mula), Jared Bowman Jared Ian Bowman (a.k.a. Yung Micelle) also won the ACS POLY Outstanding Poster Award at #ACSSpring2024 !! We're excited, but not surprised. He's that good. Michael Jordan of PISA.

A clean Florida sweep

Join POLY in congratulating Brent Sumerlin (Univ. of Florida) on receiving the Herman F. Mark Scholar Award! Brent will be honored during the #ACSFall2024 Meeting!
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A (relatively) new year calls for a new group photo! The Nobel Prize remember these faces, you'll be seeing them again in due time! #Scholars #Polymers Brent Sumerlin Butler Polymer Research Laboratory UF Chemistry

First there was PITSA, now there's PISA-PI. Check out how we can utilize xanthate-mediated photoiniferter to go from monomer to micelle (worm or vesicle) in 30 minutes or less! 🍕

Go check out our dope new cover page for the latest edition of RSC Applied Polymers RSC Applied journals !! Very honored to be featured here, shoutout Kevin Stewart and his biosourced vitrimers #CANs #polymers #Brent

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How do we make depolymerization methodologies relevant to industry? Make them catalyst- and solvent-free! Check out how we can initiate depolymerization up to 250 °C lower than current methods utilizing thermally active chain-ends.

Big couple of weeks for bulk depolymerization (ETH Polymeric Materials Matyjaszewski Lab). VERY excited about our work in Chem. Near-quant reversion to monomer at temps 250 C lower than current methods tinyurl.com/PMMAdepo James Young & Rhys Hughes UF Chemistry Sumerlin Research Group

Last weekend we had our 3rd annual-ish group retreat, this year at Lake Santa Fe! Here's a pic of (most of) the Sumerlin crew

Back with the PISA repeat, we show how a dual-responsive monomer can be leveraged to tune individual block copolymer compositions to assemble into micelles, worms, or vesicles. A big shout out to my awesome coauthors for their help!

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Congrats to Brent Sumerlin and Austin Evans on their Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) award!
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Super excited to get my first (co) first paper out! Check out our latest work on how self-assembly can be used to prepare gradient polymer sequences from monomers with otherwise equal reactivities. Thanks to #GeorgScheutz for spearheading this project.

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Read the latest special issue of #Macromolecular Rapid Commun.: 50 Years of Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi buff.ly/3WI0QTj

Thanks to guest editors Xiaodan Gu & Derek Patton!

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We noticed a dramatic difference in kinetics/control in photoiniferter polymzn depending on the targeted electronic transition - particularly useful when light sensitivity is important. Rhys Hughes Megan Lott Jared Ian Bowman Sumerlin Research Group bit.ly/3hDdZ0G ACS Macro Journals

Happy holidays from the Sumerlin Group! UF Chemistry Butler Polymer Research Laboratory Brent Sumerlin

Stoked to get this out with such an awesome group of chemists

I’m super excited to see our recent work on photocatalyzed direct decarboxylation of copolymers out in Angewandte! Many thanks to Alafate, Brent Sumerlin, and Dr. Seidel. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

At a time when you think being a Mississippian couldn't be worse, at least we're first at something for once 🙃

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We just returned from our 2022 group retreat, energized and ready for the rest of the year. A few are people missing, and you can't actually see the beach in the picture background, but the smiles speak volumes. Thank you Julia Rho for initiating things in 2020! Brent Sumerlin

We’re hiring! UF Chemistry and Butler Polymer Research Laboratory is looking for an assistant professor in polymer chemistry to begin in the fall of 2022. Priority deadline is October 22, 2021. Apply here: facultyjobs.hr.ufl.edu/posting/95062