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Arthur K. Doolittle Award

The Arthur K. Doolittle Award, established by the Union Carbide Corporation, is given to the authors of an outstanding paper presented before the Division at each national meeting of the ACS. A prize in the amount of $1,000.00 is financed with the gift of royalties from A. K. Doolittle's book, Technology of Solvents and Plasticizers. All papers appearing in the Preprint Book are evaluated on the basis of content, with emphasis on originality and development of new concepts, and on the quality of presentation. Recipients are selected by an anonymous panel of judges appointed by the Chairman of the Doolittle Award Committee.

1981	W. H. Ray and F. J. Schork (University of Wisconsin), "On-Line Monitoring of Emulsion Polymerization Reactor Dynamics."
1982	A. G. MacDiarmid, P. J. Nigrey, D. F. Macinnes, Jr., D. P. Nairns and A. J. Heeger (University of Pennsylvania), "Electrochemistry of Polyacetylene (CH): Lightweight Rechargeable Batteries Using (CH) as the Cathode-Active Material."
1983	W. J. Hall, R. L. Kruse, R. A. Mendelson and Q. A. Trementozzi (Monsanto Company), "New Styrene-Maleic Anhydride Terpolymer Blends."
1984	T. Inabe, J. F. Lomax, J. W. Lyding, C. R. Kannewurf and T. J. Marks (Northwestern University), "Metal-Like Metallomacrocyclic Polymers: Chemical, Physical and Processing Studies."
1985	J. T. Koberstein (Princeton University) and T. P. Russell (IBM Research Laboratories), "Simultaneous Synchrotron X-ray Scattering and Differential Scanning Calorimeter Characterization of Polymers."
1986	J. M. J. Fréchet, F. M. Houlihan (University of Ottawa) and C. G. Willson (IBM Research Laboratories), "Poly-carbonates Derived from o-Nitro-benzyl Glicidyl Ether: Synthesis and Radiation Sensitivity."
1987	I. V. Yannas, E. Lee, A. Ferdman, D. P. Orgill, E. M. Skrabut (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and G. F. Murphy (Brigham Young Women's Hospital), "De Novo Synthesis of Skin."
1988	M. G. Allen and S. D. Senturia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Measurement of Polyimide Interlayer Adhesion Using Macrofabricated Structures."
1989	H. Ito (IBM Research Division), M. Ueda and M. Ebina (Yamagata University), "A Copolymer Approach to the Design of Sensitive Deep UV Resist Systems with High Thermal Stability and Dry Etch Resistance."

1989	J. L. West, J. W. Doane, Z. Domingo (Kent State University) and P. Ukleja (Southeastern Massachusetts University), "Electro-Optics of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals: Infrared Applications."
1990	G. D. Friends and J. F. Kunzler (Bausch and Lomb, Inc.), "Hydrogels Based Upon N-Vinyl Pyrrolidone and 4-t-Butyl-2-Hydroxycyclohexylmethacrylate."
1990	J-S. Kim and V. C. Yang (The University of Michigan), "Biopolymer Couples with Heparin-Antidote for In Vivo Heparin Removal."
1991	J. L. Koenig (Case Western Reserve University), "Recent Advances in FT-IR of Polymers."
1991	M. R. Schure (Rohm & Haas Company), "Optimization of Channel Dimensions Used in Sedimentation Field-Flow Fractionation through Computer Simulation."
1992	W. Volksen, M. I. Sanchez, J. W. Labadie (IBM Almaden Research Center) and T. Pascal (CNRS, France), "Base-Catalyzed Cyclization of ortho-Aromatic Amide Alkyl Esters: A Novel Approach to Chemical Imidization."
1992	Y. C. Chung and N. Leventis (Molecular Displays, Inc.), "Preparation and Characterization of a New Viologen Polymer/Redox Conductive Oxide Layered Material."
1993	M. K. Georges, R. P. N. Veregin, P. M. Kazmaier and G. K. Hamer (Xerox Corporation), "Narrow Molecular Weight Resin by Free Radical Process."
1994	J. E. G. Lipson (Dartmouth College), "Born-Green-Yvon Integral Equation Treatment of Fluids and their Mixtures."
1995	J. F. G. A. Jansen and E. W. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology), E. M. M. de Brabander-van den Berg (DSM Research, The Netherlands), "The Dendritic Box and Bengal Rose."
1996	J. J. Watkins and T. J. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), "Chemistry in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide- Swollen Polymers."
1997	C. J. Hawker, E. E. Malmstrom (IBM), C. W. Frank, J. P. Kampf (Stanford University), C. Mio and J. Prausnitz (University of California – Berkeley), "Dendritic Macro-molecules: Hype or Unique Materials."
1998	J. G. Curro and J. D. Weinhold (Sandia National Laboratories), "Application of Integral Equation Theory to Polyolefin Liquids and Blends."
1998	T. P. Lodge, K. J. Hanley, C. Huang and C. Y. Ryu (University of Minnesota), "Order-Order and Order-Disorder Transitions in Block Solutions and Melts."
1999	G. W. Coates, M. Cheng and E. B. Lobkovsky (Cornell University), "New High Activity Zinc-Based Catalysis for Polycarbonate Synthesis."
1999	J. Aizenberg, A. J. Black and G. M. Whitesides (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories), "Engineering the Micro-environment of Crystals Nucleation and Growth Using Micropatterned Polymers."
2000	M. Bognitzki, H. Hou, M. Ishaque, T. Frese, M. Hellwig, C. Schwarte, A. Schaper, J. Wendorff and A. Greiner (University of Mainz, Germany), "Polymer Metal and Hybrid-Nano- and Mesotubes by Coating of Degradable Polymer Template Fibers (Tuft Process)."
2000	James E. Pickett (General Electric), "Kinetics of Polycarbonate Photoyellowing: An Initiation/Spreading Model."
2001	Mitsuo Sawamoto and Masami Kamigaito (Kyoto University), "Precision Synthesis of Functionalized Polymers by Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization."
2001	F. Grassia, M. G. Bascheyyi, F. Doghieri, G. C. Sarti (Universita Degli Studi di Bologna), "Predictive Calculation of the Solubility of Gases and Vapors in Glassy Polymer Blends."
2002	Luigi Resconi, Simona Guidotti, Isabella Camurati, Ilya E. Nifant'ev and Ilya Laishevtsev (Basell Polyolefins, Italy & Moscow State University, Russia), "New Catalysts Design for the Simultaneous Control over Polypropylene Molecular Mass and Stereoregularity."
2003	R. C. Advincula, M-K. Park (University of Houston), S. Pispas, N. Hadjichristidis (University of Athens-Greece) and J. Mays (University of Tennessee), "Adsorption Phenomena of Polyelectrolytes, Amphiphilic Block and Star Copolymers on Surfaces as Investigated by the Quartz Crystal Microbalance Method."
2003	T. M. Reineke and Y. Liu, (University of Cincinnati), "Synthesis and Characterization of Polyhydroxyamides for DNA Delivery."
2004	J. R. Heath, D. Steuerman, Y, Luo (Cal Tech), H. Tseng, S. Vignon and J. F. Stoddart (UCLA), "Molecular Mechanics and Molecular Electronics"
2005	Paul F. Nealey (University of Wisconsin), "Directed Assembly of Imaging Materials for Nanolithography."
2005	L. A. Gugliotti, D. L. Feldheim and B. E. Eaton (North Carolina State University), "RNA-Mediated Metal-Metal Bond Formation in the Synthesis of Palladium Nanoparticles"
2006	K. Breitenkamp and T. Emrick (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Polymer Capsules Prepared by Photo-Induced Crosslinking of Aryl Azide Functionalized Amphiphilic Graft Copolymers at the Oil-Water Interface."
2006	K. Kamata (JST-CREST, Japan) and T. Lyoda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) "Nanotemplating Process of Phase-Segregated Structure in Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer."
2007	H. Klok, S. Tugulu, A. Arnold, I. Sielaff, K. Johnsson, P. Silacci and N. Stergiopulos, (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), "Studying protein function and controlling cell adhesion with polymer brushes."
2007	M. Hillmyer, L. Chen, A. Meuler, D. Olson and F. Bates (University of Minnesota), "Mechanically robust nanoporous plastics from multicomponent block copolymers"

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