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SUMMARY:Diels Alder Polymers with Unusual Properties: Re‐Mending and Sha
 pe Memory - Prof Fred Wudl\, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry
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CONTACT:Catherine Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Lecture for the RSC Stephanie L. Kwolek Award\n\nAbstract: The
  evolution of re‐mending polymers based on Diels Alder polymerization wi
 ll be presented. Recent results from our laboratory regarding the chemistr
 y and properties of these unusual solids will be discussed.\n\nBiography: 
 FRED WUDL\, Professor of Chemistry and Materials and Co-Director of the Ce
 nter for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS at the University of California
 \, Santa Barbara (UCSB)\, received his B.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) degree
  from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) where his disserta
 tion work was done with Professor Donald J. Cram.  After postdoctoral rese
 arch with R.B. Woodward at Harvard\, he joined the faculty of the State Un
 iversity of New York at Buffalo.  He then moved\, first in 1972 to AT&T Be
 ll Laboratories\, and subsequently to UCSB in 1982\, and then UCLA from 19
 97 to 2006.  He is widely known for his work on organic conductors and sup
 erconductors with the discovery of the electronic conductivity of the prec
 ursor to the first organic metal and superconductor.  His interest in elec
 tronically conducting polymers resulted in discovery of the first transpar
 ent organic conductor and the first self-doped polymers.  Currently he is 
 interested in the optical and electrooptical properties of processable con
 jugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes and the
  design and preparation of self-mending and self-healing materials. He has
  received numerous awards and honors and has published over 500 papers.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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