Education:

B.S., Purdue University (1988)

Ph.D., Purdue University (1991)

Awards:

MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1997)

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1996)

NIH FIRST Award (1995)

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship (1994)

American Chemical Society Unilever Award (1993)

Selected Publications:

C.A. Guymon, E.N. Hoggan, T.P. Rieker, N.A. Clark, D.M. Walba, and C.N. Bowman, "Molecular Organization of Monomers in a Smectic Liquid Crystal: Effects of Monomer Structure," Science, 275, 57, (1997).

A.R. Kannurpatti, S. Lu, G. Bunker and C.N. Bowman, "Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Iniferter Photopolymerizations,"Macromolecules, 29, 7310, (1996).

T. Yamaguchi, C.A. Koval, R.D. Noble, and C.N. Bowman, "Transport Mechanism of Carbon Dioxide Through Perfluorosulfonate Membranes Containing an Amine Carrier," Chemical Engineering Science , 51,4781 (1996).

K. S. Anseth, K.J. Anderson, and C.N. Bowman, "Radical Concentrations, Environments and Reactivities During Crosslinking Polymerizations," Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 197, 833 (1996).

K. S. Anseth, L.M. Kline, T.A. Walker, K.J. Anderson, C.N. Bowman, "Reaction Kinetics and Volume Relaxation During Polymerizations of Multiethylene Glycol Dimethacrylates," Macromolecules, 28, 2491 (1995).

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Research Interests:

Polymerization Reaction Engineering

Photopolymerizations

Highly Crosslinked Polymers

Membranes for Environmental Separations

The general focus of my research is the investigation of the structure and properties of crosslinked polymeric materials. The relationship of the structure and properties to reaction conditions and to the performance of polymeric membranes is elucidated. Interests lie primarily in two areas: development of fixed-site carrier membranes and in the characterization of polymerizations of multifunctional monomers. These interests are investigated by incorporating a mixture of polymerization reaction engineering, polymer synthesis, and experimental characterization.