Publications

2023

Shipman, Joshua; Subedi, Binod; Keller, Christopher B.; Riggs, Brian; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Douglas B. "Nanoparticle-Polymer Surface Functionalizations for Capacitive Energy Storage: Experiment and Improved First Principle Simulations" International Journal of Materials Science 2023, 24, 13321.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241713321

Wu, Jiun Wei; Kulaw, Ryan  W.; Redding McKenna, J.; Fine, Alexander J.; Grayson, Scott M.; Michaudel, Quentin “Synthesis of Degradable Polysulfamides via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange Click Polymerizable of AB-Type Monomers.”  ACS Polymers Au 2023, 3, 259-266.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acspolymersau.2c00060

Curole, Brennan, J.; Broussard, William J.; Nadeem, A.; Grayson, Scott M. Dithiol-yne Polymerizations: Comb Polymers with Poly(ethylene glycol) Sidechains.  ACS Polymers Au, 2023, 1, (page numbers soon) https://doi.org/10.1021/acspolymersau.2c00045

2022

Curole, Brennan J.; Miles, Ashley V.; Grayson, Scott M. “Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers” in Topological Polymer Chemistry, 2022, Springer Press.


Prieto, Diego C.; De Araujo, Renan V.; Lima, Sara D. S.; Assad, Felipe Z.; Grayson, Scott M.; Braga, Ataualpa A. C.; Lourenco, Felipe R.; Giarolla, Jeanine.  Succinylated Isoniazid Potential Prodrugs; Design of Experiments (DoE) for Synthesis, Optimization, and Computational Study of the Reaction Mechanism by DFT Calculations. Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022, 1254, 132323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.132323

O’Neill, Jason M.; Mao, Jialin; Haque, Farihah M.; Grayson, Scott M.; Wesdemiotis, Chrys “Separation, identification, and conformation of cyclic and tadpole macromolecules via UPLC-MS/MS” Analyst, 2022, 147, 2089-2096. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2an00208f

Keller, Christopher B.; Kurita-Oyamada, Hajime; Grayson, Scott M.; Denslow, Nancy D. “Physical evidence of oil uptake and toxicity assessment of amphiphilic grafted nanoparticles used as oil dispersants” Environmental Science and Technology, 2022, 56, 7917-7923. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08564

2021

Keller, Christopher B.; Siqueira, Julia S.; Grayson, Scott M. “Oil encapsulation advantages of amphiphilic grafted nanoparticle systems” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2021, 3, 5893-5902. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c01110

Chen, B.; Syed, M. N.; Daymon, S. P.; Olson, B. G.; Kareem, O. O.; Giesen, J. A.; Fahs, G. B.; Moore, R. R.; Grayson, S. M.; Nazarenko, S. “Insights and Comparison of Structure-Bulk Property Relationships in Low Generation Hydroxylated Polyester Dendrimer and Hyperbranched Polymer Prepared from bis-MPA Monomer Polymer.” Polymer, 2021, 231, 124097  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2021.124097

Keller, Christopher B.; Walley, Susan E.; Jarand, Curtis W.; He, Jibao; Ejaz, Muhamad; Savin, Daniel A.; Reed, Wayne F.; Grayson, Scott M. “Synthesis of poly(caprolactone)-block-poly[oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl methacylate] amphiphilic grafted nanoparticles (AGNs) as improved oil dispersants.” Polymer Chemistry, 2021, 4758-4769.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D1PY00418B

Yang, Xuejin: Murphy, Laura M.; Haque, Farihah M.: Grayson, Scott M.; Boydston, Andrew J. “A highly efficient metal-free protocol for the synthesis of linear polydicyclopentadiene.” Polymer Chemistry, 2021, 12, 2860-2867.

Kareem, Oluwapelumi O. Rahmani, Farzin; Hyman, Jason A.; Keller, Christopher B.; Pasquinelli, Melissa A.; Savin, Daniel A.; Grayson, Scott M. “Solution size variation of linear and dendritic bis-MPA analogs using DOSY-1H NMR.” Polymer Chemistry, 2021, 12, 1507-1517. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0PY01070G

Romson, Joakim; Freiholtz, Oliver; Saeed, Anher; Kronberg, Adrian Soto; Thomas, Athea; Godfrey, Jamie; Malkoch, Michael; Grayson, Scott M. “SpheriCal-ESI: A dendrimer-based 10-point calibration solution raging m/z 101-1716 with minimal memory effect for ESI-MS peptide analysis.” Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2021, e9035. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9035

Payne, Molly E.; Kareem, Oluwapelumi O.; Williams-Pavlantos, Kayla; Wesdemiotis, Chrys; Grayson, Scott M. “Mass spectrometry investigation into the oxidative degradation of poly(ethylene glycol)” Polymer Degradation and Stability, 2021, 183, 109338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2020.109388

2020

Ochs, Jordan; Alegría, Angel; Gónzalez de San Román, Estibaliz; Grayson, Scott M.; Barroso-Bujans, Fabienne “Synthesis of macrocyclic poly(glycidyl phenyl ether) with a dipole-inverted microstructure via ring closure of two arm linear precursors obtained by initiation with t-BuP4/water. Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 10005-10014, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01299

Kurita, Hajime; Brown, Caroline L.; Kroll, Kevin J.; Walley, Susan E.; Keller, Christopher; Ejaz, Muhammad; Kozuch, Marianne; Reed, Wayne; Grayson, Scott; Savin, Daniel A.; Denslow, Nancy D. Toxicity assessment of a novel oil dispersant based on silica nanoparticles using Fathead minnow. Aquatic Toxicology, 2020, 105653, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105653

Shipman, Joshua; Riggs, Brian C.; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Doug B. First principles modeling of nanoparticle-polymer surface functionalizations for improved capacitive energy storage. Journal of Materials Science, 2020, 55, 15813-15825 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05103-6

Foster, Jeffrey C.; Grocott, Marcus C.; Arkinstall, Lucy A.; Varlas, Spyridon; Redding, McKenna J.; Grayson, Scott M.; O’Reilly, Rachel K. It’s better with salt: Well-controlled aqueous ring-opening metathesis polymerization at neutral pH. J. Am. Chem Soc. 2020, 142, 13878-13885. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c05499

Kareem, Oluwapelumi O.; Keller, Christopher B.; Daymon, Samantha; Chen, Beibei; Nazarenko, Sergei; Grayson, Scott M. “Synthesis and characterization of linear, homopolyester, benzoyl protected bis-MPA (PMBB).” Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 6608-6618. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01045

Kosakowska, Karolina A; Grayson, Scott M. “Star-shaped amphiphilic polymers as soluble carriers for drug delivery”, in Handbook of Materials for Nanomedicine, Volume 7: Polymeric Nanomaterials. 2020.

Giesen, Joseph A.; Grayson, Scott M. “Selective monobenzylation of 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid (bis-MPA) to yield an AB linear monomer and analogous linear oligomers.” Tetrahedron Lett. 2020, 61, 152016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152016

Kensy, Victoria K.; Tritt, Rachel L.; Haque, Farihah M.; Murphy, Laura M.; Knorr, Daniel B.; Grayson, Scott M.; Boydston, Andrew J. “ Molecular weight control via cross metathesis in photo-redox mediated ring-opening metathesis polymerization.” Angewandte Chemie 2020, 59, 9074-9079. http://doi.org /10.1002/anie.202000434

Haque, Farihah M.; Grayson, Scott M. “The synthesis, properties and potential applications of cyclic polymers” Nature Chemistry, 2020, 12, 433-444.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0440-5

Payne, Molly E., Lou, Yueyun; Zhang, Xiaodong; Sahiner, Nurettin; Sandoval, Nicholas R.; Shantz, Daniel F.; Grayson, Scott M. “Comparison of crosslinked branched and linear poly(ethylene imine) microgel microstructures and its impact in the antimicrobial behavior, copper chelation, and carbon dioxide capture.” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020, 2, 826-836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b01101

Lienard, Romain; Duez, Quentin; Grayson, Scott M.; Gerbaux, Pascal; Coulembier, Olivier; De Winter, Julien. “Is ion mobility spectrometry mass spectrometry a suitable technique for the quantification of architectural isomeric polymers?” Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2020, e8660. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8660

Giesen, Joseph A.; Grayson, Scott M.; Mague, Joel T. “Synthesis and crystal structure of 2,2,5-trimethyl-1,3,dioxane-5-carboxylic acid and 2,2,5-trimethyl-1,3,dioxane-5-carboxylic anhydride.” Acta Crystallographica 2020, E76, 86-90. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989019016670

2019

Mao, Jialin; Zhang, Boyu; Zhang, Hong; Elupula, Ravinder; Grayson, Scott M.; Wesdemiotis, Chrys. “Elucidating branching topology and branch lengths in star-branched polymers by tandem mass spectrometry” J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2019, 30, 1981-1991. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jasms.8b06215

Haque, Farihah M.; Schexnayder, Ca’ra M.; Matxain, Jon M.; Barroso-Bujans, Fabienne; Grayson, Scott M. “A MALDI-ToF MS study of macrocyclic polyethers generated by electrophilic zwitterionic ring expansion polymerization of monosubstituted epoxides with B(C5F6)3. Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 6369-6381. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01050

Chandrasiria, I., Abebe, D. G.; Gupta, S.; Williams, J. S. D.; Rieger, W. D.; Simms, B. L.; Noh, Y.; Payne, M. E.; Fortenberry, A.; Smith, A.; Lee, B.; Grayson, S. M.; Schneider, G. J.; Watkins, D. L. “Synthesis and characterization of PAMAM-polylactide ‘Janus-type’ linear-dendritic hybrids” J. Polym. Sci. Polym. Chem. 2019, 57, 1448-1459. https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.29409

Gartner, Thomas E.; Haque, Farihah M.; Gomi, Aila M.; Grayson, Scott M.; Hore, Michael J. A.; Jayaraman, Arthi. “Scaling exponent and effective interaction in linear and cyclic polymer solutions: Theory, simulations, and experiments.” Macromolecules 2019, 52, 4579-4589. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00600

Sun, Haotian; Haque Farihah M.; Zhang, Yi; Commisso, Alex; Mohamed, Mohamed A.; Tsianou, Marina; Cui, Honggang; Grayson, Scott M.; Cheng, Chong “Linear-dendritic alternating multiblock copolymers” Angew. Chem. 2019, 58, 10572-10576. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201903402

2018

Kosakowska, Karolina A., Casey, Brittany K., Kurtz, Samantha L., Lawson, Louise B., Grayson Scott M.  “Evaluation of amphiphilic star/linear-dendritic polymer reverse micelles for transdermal drug delivery: directing carrier properties by tailoring core-vs-peripheral branching.”  Biomacromolecules 2018, 19, 3163-3176, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00680

Kosakowska, Karolina A., Casey, Brittany K., Albert, Julie N. L., Wang, Yang, Ashbaugh Henry S., Grayson Scott M.  “Synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic star/linear-dendritic polymers: effect of core-vs-peripheral branching on reverse micelle aggregation.”  Biomacromolecules 2018, 19, 3177-3189, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00679

Payne, Molly E.; Grayson, Scott M. “Characterization of synthetic polymers via matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry” J. Vis. Exp. 2018, 136, e57174 doi:10.3791/57174

Felder, Simcha E.; Redding, McKenna J.; Noel, Amandine; Grayson, Scott M.; Wooley, Karen L. “Organocatalyzed ROP of a glucopyranoside derived 5-membered cyclic carbonate” Macromolecules  2018, 51, 1787-1797. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01785

Giesen, Joseph A.; Diament, Benjamin, J.; Grayson, Scott M. “Iodine-containing mass-defect-tuned dendrimers for use as internal mass spectrometry calibrants” J. Am. Soc. Mass. Spectrom. 2018, 29, 490-500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-017-1849-y

2017

Kelly, Giovanni M.; Haque, Farihah M.; Grayson, Scott M.; Albert, Julie, N. L. “Suppression of melt-induced dewetting in cyclic poly(-caprolactone) thing films” Macromolecules 2017, 50, 9852-9856.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02200

Bentz, Kyle C.; Ejaz, Muhammad; Arencibia, Scarlett; Sultan, N.; Grayson, Scott M.; Savin, Daniel A. “Hollow amphiphilic crosslinked nanocapsules from sacrificial silica nanoparticles templates and their application as dispersants for oil spill remediation” Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 5129-5138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7PY00342K

Haque, Farihah M.; Alegria, Angel; Grayson, Scott M.; Barroso-Bujans, Fabienne “Detection, quantification and ‘click’ scavenging of impurities in cyclic poly(glycidyl phenyl ether) obtained by zwitterionic ring-expansion polymerization with B(C6F5)3” Macromolecules 2017, 50, 1870-1881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02755

Kosakowska, Karolina A.; Dimitrov, Phillip; Panambur, Gangadhar; Grayson, Scott M. “MALDI-TOF MS investigation of the unconventional termination of living polyoxazoline with ammonia).” J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem. 2017, 55, 1303-1312.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.28495

Zhang, Lanhe; Elupula, Ravinder; Grayson, Scott M.; Torkelson, John M. “Suppression of the fragility-confinement effect via low molecular weight cyclic polymer topology” Macromolecules 2017, 50, 1147-1154.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02280

Weiss, Ryan M.; Li, Jian; Liu, Han H.; Washington, Michael A.; Giesen, Joseph A.; Grayson, Scott M.; Meyer Tara Y. “Determining sequence fidelity in repeating sequence poly(lactic-co-glycolic acids).” Macromolecules 2017, 50, 550-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02202

2016

Puli, Venkata S.; Ejaz, Muhammad; Elupula, Ravinder; Kothakonda, Manish; Adireddy, Shiva; Katiyar, Ram S.; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Douglas B. “Core-shell structured barium zirconium titanate barium calcium titanate-poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites for dielectric storage capacitors.” Polymer 2016, 105, 35-42.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2016.10.020

Sharma, Arjun; Liu, Lixin; Parameswaran, Sreeja; Grayson, Scott M.; Ashbaugh, Henry S.; Rick, Steven W. “Design of amphiphilic polymers via molecular dynamics simulations.” J. Phys. Chem. B  2016, 120, 10603-10610.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b07791

Elupula, Ravinder; Oh, Joonsuk; Haque, Farihah M.; Chang, Taihyun; Grayson, Scott M. “Determining the origins of impurities during azide-alkyne click cyclization of polystyrene.” Macromolecules 2016, 49, 4369-4372.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00968

Li, Zhaolei; Wang, Jing; Pérez-Camargo, Ricardo A.; Müller, Alejandro J.; Zhang, Boyu; Grayson, Scott M.; Hu, Wenbing “Non-monotonic molecular weight dependence of crystallization rates of linear and cyclic poly(-caprolactone)s in a wide temperature range” Polymer International 2016, 65, 1074-1079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pi.5157

Lopez, Juan V.; Pérez-Camargo, Ricardo A.; Zhang, Boyu; Grayson, Scott M.; Müller, Alejandro J. “The influence of small amounts of linear polycaprolactone chains on the crystallization of cyclic analogue molecules” RSC Advances 2016, 6, 48049-48063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6RA04823D

Cremaldi, Joseph; Ejaz, Muhammad; Oak, Shrevas; Holleran, Mary K.; Roberts, Katherine; Cheng, Guanggui; Wang, Ying; Grayson, Scott M.; John, Vijay; Pesika, Noshir “Polymer coated hard carbon microspheres at an oil/water interface” J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2016, 470, 31-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2016.02.038

Ejaz, Muhammad; Alb, Alina M.; Grayson, Scott M. “Amphiphilic hyperbranched polyglycerol-block-polycaprolactone copolymer-grafted nanoparticles with improved encapsulation properties” React. Func. Polym. 2016, 102, 39-46.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2016.03.006

Zhang, Lanhe; Elupula, Ravinder; Grayson, Scott M.; Torkelson, John M. “Major impact of cyclic chain topology on the Tg-confinement effect of supported thin films of polystyrene.” Macromolecules 2016, 49, 257-268.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02474

2015

Duran-Lara, Esteban F.; Fang, Yunlan; Godbey, W T.; Marican, Adolfo; Santos, Leonardo S.; Grayson, Scott M. "Investigation of lysine functionalized dendrimers as dichlorvos detoxification agents." Biomacromolecules, 2015, 16,http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00657

Ejaz, Muhammad; Alb, Alina M.; Kosakowska, Karolina, A.; Grayson, Scott M. "Silica nanoparticles with amphiphilic polymer grafts: stable 'nanoparticle micelles' for encapsulation of hydrophobic guests." Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6,http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5py01251a

Riggs, Brian C.; Elupula, Ravinder; Rehm, Carolyn; Adireddy, Shiva; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Douglas B. "Click in ferroelectronic nanoparticles for dielectric storage." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 17819-17825.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b04158

Foley, Casey D.; Zhang, Boyu; Alb, Alina M.; Trimpin, Sarah; Grayson, Scott M. "The use of ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry to elucidate architectural dispersity within star polymers." ACS Macro Letters 2015, 4, 778-782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00299

Cortez, M. A.; Godbey, W T.; Fang, Y.; Payne, M. E.; Cafferty, B. J.; Kosakowska, K. A.; Grayson, S. M. "The synthesis of cyclic poly(ethylene imine) and exact linear analogs: an evaluation of gene delivery comparing polymer architectures." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6541-6549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b00980

Boertz, J.; Grayson, S. M. Malkoch, M.  "SpheriCal® - Monodisperse polyester dendrimers as universal mass calibrants in MALDI-mass spectrometry." Analytix 2015, 2, 16-17.

Wang, Jing; Li, Zhaolei; Perez, Ricardo A.; Muller, Alejandro J.; Zhang, Boyu; Grayson, Scott M.; Hu, Wenbing "Comparing crystallization rates between linear and cyclic poly(e-caprolactones) via fast-scan chip calorimeter measurements." Polymer  2015 63, 34-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2015.02.039

Ejaz, Muhammad; Puli, Venkata S.; Elupula, Ravinder; Adireddy, Shive; Riggs, Brian C.; Chrisey, Douglas B.; Grayson, Scott M. "Core-shell structured poly(glycidyl methacrylates)/BaTiO3 nanocomposites prepared by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization: A novel material for high energy density dielectric storage." J. Polym. Sci. A.; Polym. Chem. 2015, 53,719-728.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27485

**Featured front cover for the 15th of March 2015 issue

Xu, Zejing,; Li, Yejia; Zhang, Boyu; Purkait, Tapas; Alb, Alina; Mitchell, Brian S.; Grayson, Scott M.; Fink, Mark "Water-soluble PEGylated silicon nanoparticles and their assembly into swellable nanoparticle arrays" Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2015, 11, 56.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11051-015-2869-9

2014

Adireddy, Shiva; Puli, Venkata S.; Sklare, Samuel C.; Lou, Tiffany J.; Riggs, Brian C.; Elupula, Ravinder; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Douglas B.  "PVDF-BaSrTiO3 nanocomposites for flexible electrical energy storage devices." Emerging Mater. Res. 2014 e-published. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/emr.14.00013

Riggs, Brian C.; Elupula, Ravinder; Grayson, Scott M.; Chrisey, Douglas B. "Photonic curing of aromatic thiol-ene click dielectric capacitors via inkjet printing." J. Mater. Chem A, 2014, 2, 17380-17386.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4TA04030A

Perez, Ricardo A.; Lopez, Juan V.; Hoskins, Jessica N.; Zhang, B.; Grayson, Scott M.; Casas, Maria T.; Puiggali, J.; Muller, Alejandro J. “Nucleation and antinucleation effects of functionalized carbon nanotubes on cyclic and linear poly(ε-caprolactones)” Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 3553-3566. DOI: 10.1021/ma5005869  (pdf link)

Puli, Venkata S.; Elupula, Ravinder, Riggs, Brian C.; Grayson, Scott M.; Katiyar, Ram S.; Chrisey, Doug B. “Surface modified BaTiO3-polystyrene nanocomposites for energy storage.” Int. J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 11, 910-920.  DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01372G

Liu, L.; Parameswaran, S.; Sharma, A.; Grayson, S. M.; Ashbaugh, H. S.; Rick, S. W. “Molecular dynamics simulations of linear and cyclic amphiphilic polymers in aqueous and organic environments” J. Phys Chem B. 2014, 118, 6491-6497.  DOI: 10.1021/jp412184h  (pdf link)

Sreerama, Subramanya, G.; Elupula, R.; Laurent, Boyd A.; Zhang, B.; Grayson, Scott M. “Use of MALDI-ToF MS to elucidate the structure of oligomeric impurities formed during ‘click’ cyclization of polystyrene” React. Func. Polym. 2014, 80, 83-94 (special issue on cyclic polymers)  DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2014.01.013 (pdf link)

Pérez, Richardo A.; Córdova, Miguel E.; López, J.; Hoskins, Jessica N.; Zhang, Boyu; Grayson, Scott M.; Müller, Alejandro J. “Nucleation, crystallization, self-nucleation and thermal fractionation of cyclic and linear poly(ε -caprolactone)s” React. Func. Polym. 2014, 80, 71-82. (special issue on cyclic polymers) DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2013.10.013 (pdf link)

Ejaz, Muhammad.; Rai, Satish C.; Wang Kai; Zhang, Karen; Zhou, Weilie; Grayson, Scott M. “Surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of glycidyl methacrylate and styrene from boron nitride nanotubes.” J. Mater. Chem. C.  2014, 2, 4073-4079. DOI: 10.1039/C3TC32511C (pdf link)

Zhang, Boyu; Zhang, Hong; Myers, Brittany M.; Elupula, Ravinder; Jayawickramarajah, Janarthanan; Grayson, Scott M. “Determination of polyethylene glycol end group functionalities by combination of selective reactions and characterization by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry.” Anal. Chim. Acta. 2014, 816, 28-40.  DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2014.01.039 (pdf link)

Zhang, Hong; Zhang, Boyu; Zhu, M.; Grayson, Scott M.; Schmehl, R. H.; Jayawickramarajah, Janarthanan. “Water-soluble porphyrin nanospheres: enhanced photo-physical properties via cyclodextrin driven double self-inclusion.” Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 4853-4855.  DOI:10.1039/C4CC01372G (pdf link)

Zhang, Boyu; Zhang, Hong; Elupula, Ravinder, Alb, Alina M.; Grayson, Scott M. “Efficient Synthesis of High Purity Homo-arm and Mikto-arm Poly(ethylene Glycol) Stars Using Epoxide and Azide-Alkyne Coupling Chemistry” Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2014, 35, 146-151 DOI: 10.1002/marc.201300623 (pdf link)

Grayson, Scott M.; Myers, Brittany K.; Bengtsson, Jonas; Malkoch, Michael  “Advantages of Monodisperse and Chemically Robust “SpheriCal” Polyester Dendrimers as a “Universal” MS Calibrant. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2014, 25, 303-309: DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0777-8  (pdf link)

*Featured front cover for March 2014 issue

Myers, Brittany K.; Zhang, Boyu; Lapucha, Joanna E.; Grayson, Scott M. “The Characterization of Dendronized Poly(ethylene Glycol)s and Poly(ethylene Glycol) Multiarm Stars Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.” Anal. Chim. Acta, 2014, 808, 175-189.  DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2013.09.038 (pdf link)

Wang, Yi; Alb, Alina O.; He, Jibao; Grayson, Scott M.”Neutral Amphiphilic Linear Homopolymers Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization” Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 622-629.  DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00916E (pdf link)

2013

Zhang, B.; Zhang, H.; Li, Y.; Hoskins, J. N.; Grayson, S. M. “Exploring the Effect of Amphiphilic Polymer Architecture: Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly of Both Cyclic and Linear Poly(ethylene gylcol)-b-polycaprolactone.” ACS Macro Lett. 2013, 2, 845–848. (pdf link)

Myers, B. M., Lapucha, J. E.; Grayson, S. M. “Synthesis and MALDI-ToF characterization of dendronized poly(ethylene glycol)s.”  Braz. J. Pharm. Sci. 2013, 49, 45-55.

Ejaz, M.; Sunkara, B.; Kamboj, L.; He, J.; John, V. T.; Pesika, N. S.; Grayson, S. M. “Facile one-pot method of initiator fixation for surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization on carbon hard spheres.”  J. Polym. Sci. Part -Polym. Chem. 2013, 51, 3314–3322.  (pdf link)

Su, H.-H.; Chen, H.-L.; Diaz, A.; Teresa Casas, M.; Puiggali, J.; Hoskins, J. N.; Grayson, S. M.; Perez, R. A.; Mueller, A. J. “New insights on the crystallization and melting of cyclic PCL chains on the basis of a modified Thomson-Gibbs equation.” Polymer 2013, 54, 846–859. (pdf link)

Yol, A. M.; Dabney, D. E.; Wang, S.-F.; Laurent, B. A.; Foster, M. D.; Quirk, R. P.; Grayson, S. M.; Wesdemiotis, C. “Differentiation of Linear and Cyclic Polymer Architectures by MALDI Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-MS2).” J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2013, 24, 74–82.  (pdf link)

2012

Grayson, S. M.  “A Simple Visualization of Double Bond Properties: Chemical Reactivity and UV Fluorescence.” J. Chem. Educ. 2012, 89, 925–927. (pdf link)

Wang, Y.; Grayson, S. M.  “Approaches for the preparation of non-linear amphiphilic polymers and their applications to drug delivery.”  Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 2012, 64, 852–865.  (pdf link)

Li, Y.; Zhang, B.; Hoskins, J. N.; Grayson, S. M. “Synthesis, purification, and characterization of ‘perfect’ star polymers via ‘Click’ coupling.”  J. Polym. Sci. Part -Polym. Chem. 2012, 50, 1086–1101.
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Laurent, B. A.; Grayson, S. M.  “Synthesis of cyclic amphiphilic homopolymers and their potential application as polymeric micelles.” Polym. Chem. 2012, 3, 1846–1855. (pdf link)

Ejaz, M.; Yu, H.; Yan, Y.; Blake, D. A.; Ayyala, R. S.; Grayson, S. M.  “Evaluation of redox-responsive disulfide cross-linked poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels.” Polymer 2011, 52, 5262–5270.
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Eugene, Dawanne M.; Grayson, Scott M. "Unimolecular Micelles for Drug Delivery"  in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, Atwood, J. L; Steed, J. W.; Wallace, K. J., Eds.; Taylor and Francis; New York (in press).

Hoskins, Jessica N. Grayson, Scott M. "Architectural Differentiation of Linear and Cyclic Polymeric Isomers by Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry"  Macromolecules. 2011, 44, 6915-6918. (pdf link)

Laurent, Boyd A.; Grayson, Scott M. "Synthesis of Cyclic Dendronized Polymers via Divergent "Graft-from" and Convergent Click "Graft-to" Routes: the Preparation of Modular Toroidal Macromolecules" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13421-13429. (pdf link)

Li, Yejia; Giles, Marco D.; Liu, Simin; Laurent, Boyd A.; Hoskins, Jessica N.; Cortez, Mallory A.; Sreerama, Subramanya G.; Gibb, Bruce, C.; Grayson, Scott M.  "A Versatile and Modular Approach to Functionalisation of Deep-cavity Cavitands via “Click” Chemistry"Chem. Commun., 2011, 9036-9038. (pdf link)

Elupula, Ravinder; Laurent, Boyd A. Grayson Scott M. “Cyclic Polymers” in Synthesis of Polymers", Schlüter, A. D.; Hawker, C. J.; Sawamoto, J., Eds.; Wiley VCH, 2011

Poree, Dawanne E.; Giles, Marco D.; Lawson, Louise B.; He, Jibao; Grayson, Scott M. "Synthesis of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and their Evaluation as Transdermal Carriers"Biomacromolecules, 2011, 12, 898-906. (pdf link)

Córdova, Miguel E.; Lorenzo, Arnaldo T.; Müller, Alejandro J.; Hoskins, Jessica N.; Grayson, Scott M.  "A Comparative Study on the Crystallization Behavior of Analogous Linear and Cyclic Poly(e-Caprolactones)" Macromolecules 2011, 44, 1742-1746. (pdf link)

Hoskins, Jessica N. Grayson, Scott M. "Cyclic Polyesters: Synthetic Approaches and Potential Applications".  Polym. Chem. 2011, 2, 289-299. (pdf link)

Cortez, Mallory A.; Grayson Scott M.  "Application of Time Dependent MALDI-TOF Mass Spectral Analysis to Elucidate Chain Transfer Mechanism during Cationic Polymerization of Oxazoline Monomers Containing Thioethers"  Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 10152-10156. (pdf link)

Li, Y.; Hoskins, J. N.; Sreerama, S. G.; Grayson S. M.  "MALDI-TOF MS Characterization of Polymers Containing an Azide Group: Evidence for Metastable Ions"Macromolecules, 2010, 41, 6225-6228. (pdf link)

Li, Y.; Hoskins, J. N.; Sreerama, S. G.; Grayson, M. A.; Grayson, S. M.  "The Identification of Synthetic Homopolymer End Groups and Verification of their Transformations Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry". J. Mass Spectrom. 2010, 45, 587-611. (pdf link)

Cortez, M. A.; Grayson S. M.  "The Thiolene Click Functionalization and Subsequent Polymerization of 2-Oxazoline Monomers"Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 4081-4090. (pdf link)

Grayson, S. M.; Gibb, B. C.  "Dendronized Cavitands: A Step towards a Synthetic Viral Capsid?"  Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 1377-1382.  (pdf link)

Hoskins, J. N.; Grayson, S. M.  "Synthesis and Degradation Behavior of Cyclic Poly(e-Caprolactone)" Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 6406-6413. (pdf link)

Laurent, Boyd A.; Grayson, Scott M.  "Synthetic Approaches for the Preparation of Cyclic Polymers"Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38, 2202-2213. (pdf link)

Grayson, Scott M. "Polymer Kept in the Loop" (News and Views) Nature Chemistry, 2009, 1, 178-179. (pdf link)

Giles, Marco D.; Liu, Simin; Emanuel, Roy L.; Gibb, Bruce, C.; Grayson, Scott M.  "Divergent Dendronization of Deep-Cavity Cavitands to Tune Host Solubility"Israel J. Chem. 2009, 49, 31-40.
 
Giles, Marco D.; Liu, Simin; Emanuel, Roy L.; Gibb, Bruce C.; Grayson, Scott M.  "Dendronized Supramolecular Nano-capsules: pH Independent, Water-Soluble Deep Cavity Cavitands Assemble via the Hydrophobic Effect."  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14430-14431. (pdf link)

Eugene, Dawanne M.; Grayson, Scott M.  "Efficient Preparation of Cyclic Poly(methylacrylate)-block-Poly(styrene) by Combination of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Click Cyclization." Macromolecules 2008, 41, 5082-5084.  (pdf link)

Grayson, Scott M.; Godbey, W T.  "The Role of Macromolecular Architecture in Passively Targeted Polymer Carriers for Drug and Gene Delivery." J. Drug Targeting 2008, 15, 529-553.

Grayson, Scott M.; Laurent, Boyd A.; Eugene, Dawanne M. “Cyclic Styrenes as Substrates for Unimolecular Micelles”  in Polymers for Biomedical Applications", Kulshrestha, A. S. and Mahapatro, A., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington DC.  2008, 977, 37-50. (pdf link)

Willham, Kaitlin A.; Laurent Boyd A.; Grayson, Scott M.  "The Synthesis of a pH-Independent Bifurcated Amphiphile."  Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 2091-2094.

Laurent, Boyd A.; Grayson, Scott M.  "An Efficient Route to Well-Defined Macrocyclic Polymers via “Click” Cyclization." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4238-4239. (pdf link)