Publications

Selected Publications (2003 - 2008)

1) Stefan, Mihaela C.; Javier, Anna E.; Osaka, Itaru; McCullough, Richard D, "Grignard Metathesis Method (GRIM): Toward a Universal Method for the Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers", Macromolecules 2008, ASAP Article.

2) Rockford, Craley C.; Zhang, Rui; Kowalewski, Tomasz; McCullough, Richard D.; Stefan, Mihaela C., "Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) in a Novel Conducting Amphiphilic Block Copolymer (p NA)", Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2008, ASAP Article.

3) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Zhang, R.; Cooper, J. R.; Smilgies, D. M.; Javier, A. E.; Sheina, E. E.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D., “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(17), 1816-1824. 

4) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Craley, C. R.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Krankowski, A. B.; Zhang, R.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D., “Conducting Regioregular Polythiophene Block Copolymer Nanofibrils Synthesized by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization (RAFT) and Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization (NMP)”, Macromolecules 2007, 40(14), 4733-4735.

5)  Li, B.; Santhanam, S.; Schultz, L.; Jeffries-EL, M.;  Iovu, Mihaela C.; Sauvé, G.; Cooper, J.; Zhang, R.; Revelli,J. C.; Kusne, A. G.; Snyder, J. L.; Kowalewski, T.; Weiss, L. E.; McCullough, R. D.; Fedder, G. K.;  Lambeth, D. N., “Inkjet Printed Chemical Sensor Array Based on Polythiophene Conductive Polymers”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2007, 123(2), 651-660.

6) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Zhang, R.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D., “Conducting Block Copolymer Nanowires Containing Regioregular Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) and Polystyrene”, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2006,  43(12), 1991-2000.

 7) Li, B.; Sauvé, G.; Iovu, Mihaela 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., “Volatile Organic Compound Detection Using Nanostructured Copolymers”, Nano Letters 2006, 6, 1598-1602.

8) Zhang, R. ; Li, B.; Iovu, Mihaela C.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Sauvé, G.; Cooper,  J.; Jia, S.; Tristram-Nagle, S.; Smilgies, D. M.; Lambeth, D. N.; McCullough, R. D.;  Kowalewski, T., “Nanostructure Dependence of Field-Effect Mobility in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Film Field Effect Transistors”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006, 128, 3480-3481.

9) Iovu, Mihaela C., Sheina E. E., Gil R. R., McCullough R. D., “Experimental Evidence for the Quasi-“Living” Nature of the Grignard Metathesis Method for the Synthesis of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophenes)”, Macromolecules 2005, 38, 8649-8656.

10) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Matyjaszewski, K., “Controlled/living radical polymerization of vinyl acetate by degenerative transfer with alkyl iodides”, Macromolecules 2003, 36, 9346-9354.

11) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Maithufi, N. G.; Mapolie, S. F., “Evaluation of bis(2-Pyridinal)ethylenediimine as Ligand for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate: Influence of Polar Solvents”, Polymer International 2003,  52, 899. 

12) Iovu, Mihaela C.; Maithufi, N.; Mapolie, S., “Copper-mediated ATRP of methyl methacrylate in polar solvents using a bifunctional pyridinal diimine ligand”, Macromolecular Symposia 2003, 209-226. 

Note: From 1997 to 2007 Dr. Stefan's papers were published under the name Mihaela C. Iovu