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Recent publications:

85. "High-Lamellar ordering and Amorphous-Like pi-network in Short-Chain Thiazolothiazole-Thiophene Copolymers Lead to High Mobilities" Osaka, I.; Zhang, R.; Suave, G.; Smilgies, D-M.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131(7), 2521-2529.

84. "Regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) in a novel conducting amphiphilic block copolymer" Craley, C. R.; Zhang, R.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D.; Stefan, M. C. Macromolecular rapid Communications 2009, 30(1) 11-16.

83. "Grignard Metathesis Method (GRIM): Toward a Universal Method for the Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers," Stefan, M. C.; Javier, A. E.; Osaka, I.; McCullough, R. D. Marcomolecules 2008, 42(1), 30-32.

82. "Advances in Molecular Design and Synthesis of Regioregular Polythiophenes," Osaka, I.; McCullough, R. D. Accounts of Chemical Research 2008, 41, 1202-1214.

81. "Highly Disordered Polymer Field Effect Transistors: N-alkyl dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole Based Copolymers with Surprisingly High Charge Carrier Mobilities," Liu, J.; Zhang, R.; Sauve,G.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13167-13176.

80. "Dispersion of Pristine Carbon Nanotubes Using Conjugated Block Copolymers," Ianhua, J.; Zou, J.; Liu, L.; Chen, H.; 1, Khondaker, S. I.; McCullough, R. D.; Huo, Q.; Zhai, L. Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 2055-2060.

79."Regioregular Polythiophenes," invited chapter for Thiophene-Based Materials for Electronics and Photonics, Ewbank, P.; Iovu, M.; McCullough, R. D. Wiley, 200.

78. "Regioregular Polythiophene Solar Cells: Material Properties and Performance," Ewbank, P.; Laird, D.; McCullough, R. D. invited book chapter for Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics & Manufacturing Technologies, Lavoisier, 2008.

77. "Novel Thiophene-Thiazolothiazole Copolymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors," Osaka, I.; Sauvé, G.; Zhang, R.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D. Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 4160-4165.

76. "High Field-Effect Mobilities for Diblock Copolymers of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Poly(methyl acrylate)," Sauve, G.; McCullough, R. D. Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 1822-1855

75. "Conducting Regioregular Polythiophene Block Copolymer Nanofibrils Synthesized by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization (RAFT) and Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization (NMP)," Macromolecules 2007, 40, 4733-4735.

74. "Conducting block copolymers of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and poly(methacrylates): Electronic materials with variable conductivities and degrees of
interfibrillar order," Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2007, 28, 1816-1824.

73. "Regioregular Polythiophenes," Jeffries-EL, M.; McCullough, R. D. Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 3rd Edition, 2007, Chapter 9, pgs. 1-49.

72. "Volatile Organic Compound Detection Using Nanostructured Copolymers," Li, B.; Sauve, G.; Iovu, M. C.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Zhang, R.; Cooper, J.; Santhanam, S.; Schultz, L.; Revelli, J. C.; Kusne, A. G.; (Kowalewski, T.; Snyder, J. L.; Weiss, L. E.; Fedder, G. K.;McCullough, R. D.; Lambeth, D. N. Nanoletters 2006, 6, 1598-1602

71. "Conducting Block Copolymer Nanowires Containing Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Polystyrene," J. Macromolecular Science Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry 2006, 43,1991-2000 (special issue dedicated to Professor Sukant Tripathy).

70. "Nanostructure Dependence of Field-Effect Mobility in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Film Field Effect Transistors," Zhang, R.; Li, B.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Iovu, M.C.; Sauvé, G.; Cooper, J.; Jia, S.; Tristram-Nagle, S.; Smilgies, D. M.; Lambeth, D. N.;McCullough, R. D.; Kowalewski, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 128, 3480-3481.

69. "Facile Synthesis of End-Functionalized Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene)s via Modified Grignard Metathesis Reaction" Malika Jeffries-El, Geneviève Sauvé, and Richard D. McCullough, Macromolecule, 2005, 38, 25, 10346 - 10352. PDF

68. "Experimental Evidence for the Quasi-"Living" Nature of the Grignard Metathesis Method for the Synthesis of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophenes)" Iovu, M. C.; Sheina, E. E.; Gil, R. R.; McCullough, R. D., Macromolecule, 2005, 38, 21, 8649-8656. PDF

67. "Regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene) Conducting Block Copolymers" Iovu, Mihaela C.; Jeffries-EL, Malika; Sheina, Elena E.; Cooper, Jessica R.; McCullough, Richard D. Polymer, 2005, 46, 19, 8582-8586. PDF

68. "Highly Conductive, Regioregular Alkoxy-Functionalized Polythiophenes: A New Class of Stable, Low Band Gap Materials" Sheina, Elena E.; Khersonsky, Sonya M.; Jones, Edward G.; McCullough, Richard D. Chemistry of Materials, 2005, 17, 13, 3317-3319. PDF

67. “Regioregular Poly(thiophene-3-alkanoic acid)s: Water Soluble Conducting Polymers Suitable for Chromatic Chemosensing in Solution and Solid State”, Ewbank, P. C.; Loewe, R. S.; Zhai, L.; Reddinger, J.; Sauvé, G.; McCullough, R. D., Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, pg. 11269-11275. (invited) PDF

66. "Chain Growth Mechanism for Regioregular Nickel-Initiated Cross-Coupling Polymerizations," Sheina, E. E.; Liu, J.; Iovu, M. C.; Laird, D. W.; McCullough, R. D. Macromolecules, 2004, 37, pg. 3526-3528. PDF

65. "In-situ End Group Functionalization of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene) using the Grignard Metathesis Polymerization Method," Jeffries-EL, M.; Sauvé, G., and McCullough, R. D. Adv. Mater., 2004, 16, No. 12., 1017-1019. PDF

64. "Regioregular Polythiophene/Gold Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials", Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D., J. Mater. Chem. 2004, 14, 141-143. PDF

63. "New Phosphonic Acid Functionalized Regioregular Polythiophenes", Stokes, Kristoffer K.; Heuze, Karine; McCullough, Richard D., Macromolecules 2003, 36, 7114-7118. PDF

62. "Soft-Lithography Patterning of Functionalized Regioregular Polythiophenes", Zhai, Lei; Laird, Darin W.; McCullough, Richard D., Langmuir 2003, 19, 6492-6497. PDF

61. "Complex Nanostructured Materials from Segmented Copolymers Prepared by ATRP", Kowalewski, T.; McCullough Richard D.; Matyjaszewski, K., Eur. Phys. J. E. 2003, 10, 5-16.

60. "A Simple Method to Generate Side-Chain Derivatives of Regioregular Polythiophene via the GRIM Metathesis and Post-polymerization Functionalization", Zhai, Lei; Pilston, Richard L.; Zaiger, Karen L.; Stokes, Kristoffer K.; McCullough, Richard, D.; Macromolecules 2003, 36, 61-64. PDF

59. "End Group Modification of Regioregular Polythiophene through Postpolymerization Functionalization", Liu, Jinsong; McCullough, Richard D.; Macromolecules 2002, 35, 9882-9889. PDF

58. "Layer-by-layer Assembly of Polythiophene", Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D.; Adv. Mater. 2002, 14, 901-905. PDF

57. "Tuning the Electrical Conductivity and Self-assembly of Regioregular Polythiophene by Block Copolymerization: Nanowire Morphologies in New Di- and Triblock Copolymers", Liu, Jinsong; Sheina, Elena; Kowalewski, Tomasz; McCullough, Richard D.; Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2002, 41, 329-332. PDF

56. "Temperature and Voltage Dependent Optical Properties of Conducting Polymer in Synthetic Opal as Photonic Crystal", Satoh, S.; Kajii, H.; Kawagishi, Y.; Tamura, T.; Fujii, A.; Ozaki, M.; McCullough, R. D.; Yoshino, K., Synth. Met. 2001, 121, 1503-1504.

55. "Regioregular, Head-to-Tail Coupled Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) Made Easy by the GRIM Method: Investigation of the Reaction and the Origin of Regioselectivity", Loewe, Robert S.; Ewbank, Paul C.; Liu, Jinsong; Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D., Macromolecules 2001, 34, 4324-4333. PDF

54. "Amine Functionalized Polythiophenes: Synthesis and Formation of Chiral, Ordered Structures on DNA Substrates", Ewbank, P. C.; Nuding, G.; Suenaga, H.; McCullough, R. D.; Shinkai, S., Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 155-157.

53. "Effects of Structural Regularity on the Properties of Poly(3-alkylthienylenevinylenes)", Loewe, Robert S.; McCullough, Richard D., Chem. Mater. 2000, 12, 3214-3221.

52. "Toward Highly Fluorescent Polythiophenes: Head-to-tail Coupled Copolymers of 3-(methoxyethoxyethoxymethyl)thiophene and 3-(perfluoroalkyl)thiophene", Pilston, R. L.; McCullough, R. D.; Synth. Met. 2000, 111-112, 433-436.

51. "Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers at the Air/Water Interface. Structure and Properties of Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Amphiphilic Regioregular Polythiophenes", Reitzel, Niels; Greve, Daniel R.; Kjaer, Kristian; Howes, Paul B.; Jayaraman, Manikandan; Savoy, Steve; McCullough, Richard D.; McDevitt, John T.; Bjornholm, Thomas, J. Am. chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 5788-5800. PDF

Recent publications in non-refereed journals:

45. McCullough, R. D.; Sauvé, G.; Li, B.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Santhanam, S.; Schultz, L.; Zhang, R.; Iovu, M. C.; Cooper, J.; Sreedharan, P.; Revelli, J. C.; Kusner, A. G.; Kowalewski, T.; Snyder, J. L.; Weiss, L. E.; Lambeth, D. N.; Fedder, G. K. "Regioregular Polythiophene Nanowires and Sensors", Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005, 5940(Organic Field-Effect Transistors IV), 594005/1-594005/7. PDF

44. Sheina, Eleana E.; Iovu, Mihaela C.; McCullough, Richard D. "Synthesis of Regiospecific Poly(3-substituted-thiophenes) using Ni-diimine-initiated Cross-coupling Polymerization", Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(2), 1070-1071. PDF

43. Cooper, J.; Zhang, R.; Iovu, M.; McCullough, R.; Kowalewski, T. "Comparative Study of Poly(3-alklthiophene) Triblock Copolymers", Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(2) PDF

42. Sauve, Genevieve; Iovu, Mihaela C.; Jeffries-EL, Malika; McCullough, Richard D. "Well-defined Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-b-Poly(acrylate) Diblock Copolymers" Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(2), 496. PDF

41. Iovu, Mihaela C.; Sheina, Elena E.; Javier, Anna; Craley, Casey; Jeffries-EL, Milika; McCullough, Richard D. "Living Radical Polymerization Techniques Applied to the Synthesis of Well-defined Copolymers Containing Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene)", Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(2), 282-283. PDF

40. Cooper, J. Sreedharan, P. Iovu, M. McCullough, R. "Synthesis and characterization of tri-block copolymers containing regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene)", Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(1) PDF

39. Sheina, Elena E.; Iovu, Mihaela C.; McCullough, Richard D. "Mechanism and Kinetics of the Nickel-assisted Cross-coupling Polymerizations of Regioregular 3-Alkyl-functionalized Polythiophenes", Polymer Preprints 2005, 46(1), 682-683. PDF

38. Iovu, Mihaela C.; Sheina, Elena E.; McCullough, Richard D. "Grignard Metathesis (GRIM) Method for the Synthesis of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) with Well-defined Molecular Weights", Polymer Preprints 2005, 46(1), 660-661. PDF

37. Sheina, Elena E.; McCullough, Richard D. "Electrical Properties of Highly Conductive EDOT Based Copolymers", Polymer Preprints 2004, 45(2), 800-801. PDF

36. Iovu, Mihaela C.; Jeffries-EL, Malika; Sheina, Elena E.; Krankowski, Ashley B,; Sauve, Genevieve; McCullough, Richard D. "Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-b-Polystyrene Di-block Copolymers", Polymer Preprints 2004, 45(2), 645-646. PDF

35. Jeffries-EL, Malika; Iovu, Mihaela C.; Sheina, Elena; Sauve, Genevieve; McCullough, Richard D. "End Functionalized Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) as Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Diblock Copolymers", Polymer Preprints 2004, 45(2), 551-552. PDF

34. Iovu, Mihaela C.; Sheina, Elena E.; Sauve, Genevieve; Jeffries-El, Malika; Cooper, Jessica; McCullough, Richard D., “Synthesis of poly(3-hexylthiophene) di-block copolymers using atom transfer radical polymerization”, Polymer Preprints 2004 , 45(1), 278-279. PDF

33. Jeffries-EL, Malika, Sauve, Genevieve; Iovu, Mihaela; McCullough, Richard D., “In situ end group modification of regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) via Grignard metathesis (GRIM) polymerization”, Polymer Preprints 2004, 45(1), 183-184. PDF

32. Sheina, Elena E.; McCullough, Richard D., “Electrical and spectroscopic property differences in poly(3-alkoxythiophenes) synthesized by various methods”, Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(2), 885. PDF

31. Sauve, Genevieve; Jeffries-El, Malika; McCullough, Richard D., “Control of end-groups of regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) using Grignard metathesis”, Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(2), 432. PDF

30. McCullough, Richard D., “The power of MALDI for preparing electrically conductive nanowires”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2003, 88, 129.

29. Sheina, Elena E.; Khersonsky, Sonya M.; Jones, Edward G.; McCullough, Richard D., “Toward poly(3- and 3,4-alkoxythiophenes)”, Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(1), 843-844. PDF

28. Zhai, Lei; Laird, Darin D.; McCullough, Richard D., “Regioregular polythiophene for integrated circuits”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 87, 288-289.

27. Liu, Jinsong; Sheina, Elena; Zhai, Lei; Kowalewski, Tomasz; McCullough, Richard D., “Nanowires formed from block copolymers of regioregular polythiophene”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 86, 35.

26. Pilston, Richard L.; McCullough, Richard D., “Characterization of polythiophene random copolymers that include m-linked monomer units”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 86, 191-192.

25. Sheina, Elena E.; Liu, Jinsong; McCullough, Richard D., “Synthesis and properties of conducting elastomers”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 86, 177-178.

24. Jeffries-El, Malika; Zaiger, Karen; McCullough, Richard D., “Design and synthesis of novel glycopolythiophenes”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 86, 166.

23. Laird, Darin W.; McCullough, Richard D., “Toward processable, regioregular 2,5-polypyrroles via nickel-catalyzed polycondensation”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2002, 86, 157-158.

22. McCullough, Richard D.; Liu, Jingsong; Shiena, Elena; Heuze, Karine; Stokes, Kristoffer; Jayaraman, Manikandan; Bjornholm, Thomas; McDevitt, John T, “Self-assembly of amphiphilic conducting polymers into nanowires, nanocircuits, and multifunctional materials”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 858.

21. Pilston, Richard L.; Ricou, Joana I. F.; McCullough, Richard D., “Toward tunable, light-emitting polythiophenes”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 703.

20. McCullough, Richard; Heuze, Karine; Stokes, Kristoffer A., “Synthesis and self-assembly of conducting polymers at interfaces”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 699.

19. Liu, Jinsong; McCullough, Richard D., “ATRP approach to synthesize well-defined diblock copolymers containing regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-hexylthiophene)s”, Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 662-663.

18. Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D.; Polymer Preprints, 2001, 42(2), 187. PDF

17. Laird, Darin W; Loewe, Robert S.; Ewbank, Paul C.; Liu, Jinsong; Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard, D.; Polymer Preprints, 2001, 42(2), 556. PDF

16. Zaiger, Karen; Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D., “Carbohydrate functionalized polythiophenes as biosensors”, Polymer Preprints 2001, 42(2), 332. PDF

15. Zhai, Lei; McCullough, Richard D., “Functionalization of regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes) side chain”, Polymer Preprints 2000, 41(2), 1582-1583. PDF

14. Liu, Jinsong; McCullough, Richard D., “End group functionalization of regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes)”, Polymer Preprints 2000, 41(2), 1235-1236. PDF

Selected publications prior to year 2000:

"A Very Simple Method to Prepare Head-to-Tail Coupled, Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) Using Grignard Metathesis," Loewe, R. S.; Khersonsky, S. M.; McCullough, R. D. Adv. Mater. 1999 ,11 , 250-253. PDF

"The Chemistry of Conducting Polythiophenes," McCullough, R. D., Adv. Mater. 1998 ,10 , 1-24 (review). INVITED PDF

"Regioregular, Head-to-Tail Coupled Poly(3-alkylthiophene) and its Derivatives," McCullough, R. D.; Ewbank, P. C. in the Handbook of Conducting Polymers , 2nd edition, Marcell Dekker, 1998 , Chapter 9. 225-258. INVITED

"Optimizing the Synthesis of Tetratellurafulvalene (TTeF)," Herr, D. E.; Mays, M. D.; McCullough, R. D.; Bailey, A. B.; Cowan, D. O., J. Org. Chem. 1996 ,61 , 7006-7011.

"Toward Tuning Electrical and Optical Properties in Conjugated Polymers Using Side-Chains: The Synthesis and Physical Properties of a Series of the First Head-to-Tail Heteratom Functionalized Polythiophenes," McCullough, R. D.; Williams, S. P., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993 ,115 , 11608-11609. PDF

"Selective Generation, Isolation, and Purification of Tetrathiafulvalene Tetrathiolate: A Versatile Building Block for New Materials," McCullough, R. D.; Belot, J. A.; Seth, J., J. Org. Chem. 1993 ,58 , 6480-6482. PDF

"Self-Oriented Poly(3-Alkylthiophenes): New Insights on Structure-Property Relationships in Conducting Polymers," McCullough, R. D.; Tristram-Nagle, S.; Williams, S. P.; Lowe, R. D.; Jayaraman, M., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993 ,115 , 4910-4911. PDF

"Design, Synthesis, and Control of Conducting Polymer Architectures: Structurally Homogeneous Poly(3-alkylthiophenes)," McCullough, R.D.; Lowe, R. D.; Jayaraman, M.; Anderson, D. L., J. Org. Chem. 1993 ,58 , 904-912. PDF

List of Publications prior to year 2000.

 



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