Fundamentals of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization

Nicolay V. Tsarevsky is Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University, USA. He received his M.S. (1999) in Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical physics from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University (2005) where he worked on the synthesis of functional polymers by ATRP (Advisor: Professor Kris Matyjaszewski). His research interests include the controlled polymerization and synthesis of polymers with well-defined molecular architecture and functionality, nanostructured materials for biomedical or optoelectronic applications, transition metal catalyzed polymerizations and the development of "green" synthetic methodologies. He has authored and co-authored more than 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 7 book chapters, 1 textbook and several patents. Brent S. Sumerlin gained a B.S. in Textile Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry Concentration (1998) from the North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering (2003) from the University of Southern Mississippi (Advisor: Charles L. McCormick). He moved to Carnegie Mellon University until 2005, when he moved to the Southern Methodist University. Since 2009 he is Harold Jeskey Trustee Associate Professor in Chemistry. He was awarded an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, SMU Ford Research Fellow and named an "Emerging Investigator" by two Royal Society of Chemistry journals. He is an Editorial Board Member for Polymer Chemistry and on the Editorial Advisory Board of a number of key journals. He has published nearly 90 papers in peer reviewed publications and 7 patents.