Research Statement |
| Professor Samulski's research interests center on the physical chemistry of macromolecules, especially relating molecular structure and dynamics in low molar mass liquid crystals to the solid state and mesophase properties of polymers. The powerful deuterium NMR technique was extended by Samulski to probe the subtle orientational biasing that is generated when an elastomer is deformed. Extensions to fluid polymers under shear has resulted in new methodology he calls RheoNMR. Lastly he has embarked on studies of supercritical CO2 solutions showing with fluorine NMR that specific interactions between fluorine and CO2 account for the solubility of fluoropolymers in this unusual solvent. |
Education |
| 1967-70 |
Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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| 1965-67 |
M.S., Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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| 1961-65 |
B.S., Textile Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Positions |
| 1995-00 |
Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina
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| 1988- |
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina
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| 1985-86 |
Sci. & Engr. Res. Council Sr. Visiting Fellow, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University
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| 1981-88 |
Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs
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| 1979 |
Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, Israel
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| 1978 |
Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Solid State Physics, University of Paris (Sud); Orsay
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| 1975-81 |
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs
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| 1972-75 |
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs
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Selected Honors |
| 1997 |
Chair, Polymer Gordon Conference, Ventura, California
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| 1995 |
Simon Guggenheim Fellow (Massey University, New Zealand)
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| 1994 |
Stone Award of the Carolina Piedmont Section of the AC
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| 1994 |
Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Chemistry (endowed chair)
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| 1992 |
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
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| 1992 |
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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| 1985 |
Founding Editor (with G. R. Luckhurst) of the journal LIQUID CRYSTALS
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| 1978 |
Chair, Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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