Research Description:

My research involves the conjuction of nanofabrication and polymer science. We are using the advanced lithographic tools available at the Nanofabrication Laboratory to selectively modify surfaces at the nanoscale. These modified surfaces can thus serve as templates to guide the long-range ordering of self-assembling block copolymers.

Publications:

Wilmes, G. M.; Durkee, D. A.; Liddle, J. A.; Balsara, N. P. "Bending Soft Block Copolymer Nanostructures by Lithographically Directed Assembly" Macromolecules, 2006, 39, 2435-2437.

Wilmes, G. M.; France, M. B.; Lynch, S. R.; Waymouth, R. M. "Effects of ligand substitutions on the rotation rate of indenyl ligands in bis(2-arylindenyl)zirconocenes by NMR lineshape analysis and relaxation in the rotating frame," Organometallics, 2004, 23, 2405-2411

Wilmes, G. M.; Lin, S.; Waymouth, R. M. "Propylene polymerization with sterically-hindered unbridged 2-arylindene metallocenes," Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 5382-5387.

Wilmes, G. M.; Polse, J. L.; Waymouth, R. M. "Influence of cocatalyst on the stereoselectivity of unbridged 2-phenylindenyl metallocene catalysts," Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 6766-6772.

Lincoln, A. L.; Wilmes, G.M.; Waymouth, R. M. "Dynamic NMR Studies of Cationic Bis(2-Phenylindenyl)Zirconium Pyridyl Complexes" Organometallics, accepted for publication.