3月6日，ACS Macro Letters副主编美国佛罗里达大学Brent Sumerlin教授来院作题为“Exploiting light to push the limits of controlled radical polymerization and macromolecular metamorphosis”的学术报告。

Sumerlin教授主要就三个部分的内容介绍了其课题组的研究课题和最新进展，重点提到课题里关于“对光引发制备超高分子量（UHMW）聚合物”的研究成果。具体内容为以乙烯基单体与对硫代羰基硫代化合物在轻度紫外线照射进行反应，以可控自由基聚合得到了前所未有高分子量的窄分布聚合物，其数均分子量超过8.00×10 6 g / mol，聚合度超过85,000。此外，Sumerlin教授以光引发聚合技术还制备了超高分子量的嵌段共聚物，并应用于高分子囊泡的制备和负载蛋白质应用中。

Brent Sumerlin教授作学术报告

Sumerlin教授的报告引起了参会师生的广泛兴趣，会后，与会师生就相关专业性问题与其进行深度探讨。（图/文 华南软物质科学与技术高等研究院）

附报告人简介：

    Brent Sumerlin graduated with a B.S. from North Carolina State University in 1998 and received his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Southern Mississippi under the direction of Dr. Charles McCormick. He continued his work as a Visiting Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Research Associate in the group of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University from 2003–2005. In 2005 he joined the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University as an Assistant Professor, and in 2009 he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In the fall of 2012, Prof. Sumerlin joined the Butler Polymer Research Laboratory and the Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida, where he is currently the George Bergen Butler Professor of Polymer Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was been named a Kavli Fellow (Frontiers of Science, National Academies of Sciences). Prof. Sumerlin has won a number of awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, ACS Leadership Development Award, Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, and the Hanwha-Total IUPAC Award. He is an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters.