Congrats to Lily and coworkers (Sitong Liu @CRinaldi_UF Brent Sumerlin ) on their new paper where they improved #vitrimer flow rate and self-healing by incorporation of magnetic Iron Oxide NPs. Check it out below!! UF Chemistry UF Engineering ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Fresh paper out now! Kevin Stewart and crew (see reply) worked to develop mechanically robust, highly aromatic polyimine networks comprised of up to 94% biomass, including Vanillin! Made the whole lab smell like a pastry shop :D RSC Applied journals #RSCAppliedPolymers pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

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

The rumors are true: James Young, Rhys Hughes, #Ariana, Laura Bailey, Kevin Stewart, and Brent Sumerlin have successfully depolymerized grams of PMMA back into ultrapure MMA WITHOUT any catalyst or solvent AND >90% monomer recovery! Chem UF Chemistry sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The ultra-high molecular weight polymer saga continues; inverse miniemulsion photoiniferter conditions were used in flow to obtain well-controlled UHMW polymers faster than batch IME polymerizations! #Cullen ACS Macro Letters Butler Polymer Research Laboratory Brent Sumerlin tinyurl.com/UHMWFlowME

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 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The Brent Lab's foray into photocatalytic decarboxylation continues with #EmmaSchué's newest publication w/ the #SeidelLab in Chemical Science, where they made alternating Styrene/Ethylene and Styrene/Propylene copolymers! UF Chemistry Butler Polymer Research Laboratory pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Ultrafast Xanthate-Mediated Photoiniferter Polymerization-Induced #SelfAssembly (PISA) (Brent Sumerlin and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Fresh PISA paper from Jared Ian Bowman and Cabell Eades! By exploiting rapid #xanthate photolysis during photoiniferter #PISA, they made polymeric nanoparticles, from start to finish, in 30 minutes! Angewandte Chemie Brent Sumerlin UF Chemistry Butler Polymer Research Laboratory tinyurl.com/XanPISAPI

Come to beautiful, sunny Florida and join the Butler Polymer Research Lab!! Tons of great people and great chemistry going on here, on top of only being 90 min from multiple beaches and 2 hrs from Disney! 🐊🏖️🐭🎡☀️ #polymers

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

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.

Such a slay this is out 🫶 appreciate everyone’s help!

It's alive! James Young and Sofia Goodrich give life to postconsumer PMMA and PαMS by mechanochemically installing phthalimide esters onto the chains that can subsequently be used to trigger bulk depolymerization! Brent Sumerlin UF Chemistry Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Go check out Jarebear's (Jared Ian Bowman) new paper now out in ACS Macro Journals! Poly(β-amino esters) (PBAEs) and poly(amido amines) (PAMAMs) were degraded via Cope Elimination of backbone N-oxides under mild conditions! Brent Sumerlin Butler Polymer Research Laboratory #Cope pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Ultra-high molecular weight polymer synthesis via aqueous dispersion polymerization pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Crispy new paper out now in Chemical Science! Cabell Eades and pals used aqueous PISA as a tool to avoid high viscosities typically obtained during UHMW polymer synthesis! Also got some massive polymer microparticles in the process. Brent Sumerlin tinyurl.com/SaltyPISA

Last celebration post! Congrats to our own Troy Scoggins has also been awarded the 2025 Eastman Summer Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry! And congrats to our collaborator Cabell Eades (Sumerlin Research Group) for receiving the Synthetic Chemistry Fellowship!

New paper has hit the market! James Young and team performed bulk depolymerizations of polystyrenics via thermal activation of pendent phthalimide esters! You're welcome, sea turtles Brent Sumerlin LaShanda Korley Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI) UF Chemistry Tim Tebow SHAQ LeBron James pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Exciting new paper now out in ACS Nano! Megan Lott and Dr. Maria Vratsanos in the Gianneschi Group at Northwestern Engineering disambiguate the dynamic structural changes of thermoresponsive inverse microemulsion droplets with liquid-phase TEM! #BigNate #Brent pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…