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Matyjaszewski Polymer Group  ›  Former Members  ›  Patricia Golas

Address
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4400 Fifth Avenue
Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

Ph.D. candidate, expected graduation 2010

Department of Chemistry, Ä¢¹½Av

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

B. S. (summa cum laude), 2005

Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Staten Island, NY, USA

Research

  • Polymer-based delivery systems for nanoparticles used in groundwater remediation
  • Novel polymeric surfactants, star and gradient copolymers
  • Polymer characterization by light scattering
  • Environmentally-friendly chemistry

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers
  1. Golas, P. L. and Matyjaszewski, K. “Marrying Click Chemistry with Polymerization:  Expanding the Scope of Polymeric Materials”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009, accepted.
  2. Sirk, K. M.; Saleh, N. B.; Phenrat, T.; Kim, H-J.; Dufour, B.; Ok, J; Golas, P. L.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Lowry, G. V.; Tilton, R. D. “Effect of Adsorbed Polyelectrolytes on Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron Particle Attachment to Soil Surface Models”, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43, 3803.
  3. Golas, P. L.; Tsarevsky, N. V.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Structure-Reactivity Correlation in “Click” Chemistry:  Substituent Effect on Azide Reactivity”,Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2008, 29, 1167. (Highlighted as “Noteworthy Chemistry” by the American Chemical Society)
  4. Golas, P. L. and Matyjaszewski, K. “Click Chemistry and ATRP:  A Beneficial Union for the Preparation of Functional Materials”, QSAR Comb. Sci., 2007, 26, 1116.
  5. Golas, P. L.; Tsarevsky, N. V.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Walker, L. M.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Multisegmented Block Copolymers by “Click” Coupling of Polymers Prepared by ATRP”, Aust. J. Chem., 2007, 60, 400.
  6. Golas, P. L.; Tsarevsky, N. V.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Catalyst Performance in “Click” Coupling Reactions of Polymers Prepared by ATRP: Ligand and Metal Effects”, Macromolecules, 2006, 39, 6451.
  7. Gao, H.; Louche, G.; Sumerlin, B. S.; Jahed, N.; Golas, P.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Gradient Polymer Elution Chromatographic Analysis of Dihydroxypolystyrene Synthesized by ATRP and Click Chemistry”, Macromolecules, 2005, 38, 8979.
  8. Zhou, S.; Ouyang, J.; Golas, P.; Wang, F.; Pan, Y. “Structural Study of the Self-Assembled Fullerene Carboxylates: Monoadducts versus Bisadducts”, J. Phys. Chem. B., 2005, 109, 19741.
  9. Zhou, S.; Xu, C.; Wang, J.; Golas, P.; Batteas, J.; Kreeger, L. “Phase Behavior of Cationic Hydroxyethyl Cellulose-Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Mixtures: Effects of Molecular Weight and Ethylene Oxide Side Chain Length of Polymers”, Langmuir, 2004, 20, 8482.
Book Chapters
  1. Sumerlin, B. S.; Tsarevsky, N. V.; Gao, H.; Golas, P.; Louche, G.; Lee, R. Y.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Click Functionalization of Well-Defined Copolymers Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”, ACS Symp. Ser., 2006, 944, 140.
  2. Golas, P. L.; Mueller, L. A.; Matyjaszewski, K. “Fundamentals of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. 

    Presentations

    • 236th ACS National Meeting, August 17 – 21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
    • 235th ACS National Meeting, April 6 – 10, 2008, New Orleans, LA
    • 18th Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium, October 15 – 16, 2007, Santa Barbara, CA
    • Winner of 2007 Wyatt Technology Application Note Contest
    • 234th ACS National Meeting, August 19 – 23, 2007, Boston, MA
    • 232nd ACS National Meeting, September 10 – 14, 2006, San Francisco, CA
    • 230th ACS National Meeting, August 28 – September 1, 2005, Washington D. C.

    Experience

    • Group lab manager, 2006 – present
    • Supervised three undergraduate students, 2006 – 2007, 2009 – present
    • Graduate teaching assistant, 2005 – 2006 

    Affiliation

    • American Chemical Society