Odyssey of Ryong-joon Roe: Through Polymer Physics over 1/2 Century.
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Abstract
In profound admiration and with deep respect, this is to chronicle and review the pioneering contributions of Ryong-Joon Roe to polymer physics and chemistry. They started from mid 1950s in UK till the onset of 21st century at the University of Cincinnati.
His training began with Manfred Gordon in Glasgow, Scotland, in mid1950s, and blossomed into productive and fruitful collaborations at Manchester and Essex in England. The initial locales were the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, Scotland, College of Science & Technology in Manchester, England, subsequently at the University of Essex when Gordon joined its faculty. Upon coming to the US in 1962, he joined Bill Krigbaum’s Laboratory at Duke University as a postdoctoral associate. After a stint of 2 years, his odyssey in US began as an industrial polymer scientist, at Niagara Fall Laboratory and the Experimental Station in Wilmington of du Pont, then to the Bell Laboratories as a member of its technical staff. His final move was to the University of Cincinnati occurred in 1975.
The first series of 4 publications with Gordon appeared in 1956, where they demonstrated unambiguously by experiment that the classical theory of gelation by Flory and Stockmayer was well borne out, without interference by diffusion control of monomers and cross-linkers. By 1963, his first publication with Krigbaum was on the thermo-elasticity of Viton, a fluoroelastomer of major importance. His contributions blossomed therefrom in many significant areas of polymer physics. For brevity, only a few specific areas need to be noted, such as polymer surfaces and adsorption, orientation in semi-crystalline polymers, polymer blends and phase relations, block copolymers and physical aging of glassy polymers. The final coup de grace was the 2000 publication of a book entitled, “Methods of X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Polymer Science” by Oxford University Press. It has become a canonical reference for scatters of all shades and kinds.
His training began with Manfred Gordon in Glasgow, Scotland, in mid1950s, and blossomed into productive and fruitful collaborations at Manchester and Essex in England. The initial locales were the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, Scotland, College of Science & Technology in Manchester, England, subsequently at the University of Essex when Gordon joined its faculty. Upon coming to the US in 1962, he joined Bill Krigbaum’s Laboratory at Duke University as a postdoctoral associate. After a stint of 2 years, his odyssey in US began as an industrial polymer scientist, at Niagara Fall Laboratory and the Experimental Station in Wilmington of du Pont, then to the Bell Laboratories as a member of its technical staff. His final move was to the University of Cincinnati occurred in 1975.
The first series of 4 publications with Gordon appeared in 1956, where they demonstrated unambiguously by experiment that the classical theory of gelation by Flory and Stockmayer was well borne out, without interference by diffusion control of monomers and cross-linkers. By 1963, his first publication with Krigbaum was on the thermo-elasticity of Viton, a fluoroelastomer of major importance. His contributions blossomed therefrom in many significant areas of polymer physics. For brevity, only a few specific areas need to be noted, such as polymer surfaces and adsorption, orientation in semi-crystalline polymers, polymer blends and phase relations, block copolymers and physical aging of glassy polymers. The final coup de grace was the 2000 publication of a book entitled, “Methods of X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Polymer Science” by Oxford University Press. It has become a canonical reference for scatters of all shades and kinds.
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Presenters
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Hyuk Yu Gregory Beaucage
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Cincinnati
Authors
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Hyuk Yu Gregory Beaucage
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Cincinnati