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Macromolecular Science and Polymer Program News & Highlights

Inspiration from the Skin of a Shark

What do sharks strike in people other than fear? For Dr. Anthony Brennan, associate director of the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, the shark has been a source of inspiration. Brennan has developed a coating inspired by shark skin which prevents adhesion of marine organisms such as algae and barnacles. The coating, called Sharklet AFTM, is comprised of ridges and channels in silicone which mimic the scales of a shark...Read More > >

Featured Alumni

Dr. Dennis W. Smith, Jr. received his B.S. (1988) from Missouri State University and his Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Florida under the guidance of Prof. Ken Wagener on the scope and mechanism of acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization. He was a Rhone Poulenc Graduate Research Fellow in Lyon, France pursuing novel silicone elastomers, and a Dow Chemical Postdoctoral Fellow (1993) with Dr. Raymond König in Rheinmünster, Germany exploring fundamental ...Read More > >