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Charles L. McCormick is affiliated with the University of Southern Mississippi in the United States. Their research spans key areas within chemistry and materials science, with a focus on organic chemistry, surfaces, coatings, and films, as well as biomaterials and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work highlight advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, polymer surface interaction studies, synthetic organic chemistry methods, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, and nanopore and nanochannel transport studies.

Recent publications by Charles L. McCormick include:

  • A Perspective on the History and Current Opportunities of Aqueous RAFT Polymerization, 2022, Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Label-free characterization of organic nanocarriers reveals persistent single molecule cores for hydrocarbon sequestration, 2021, Nature Communications

These publications reflect contributions to polymer chemistry and nanocarrier systems, providing insights into polymerization methods and nanoscale organic carrier properties.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McCormick include:

  • Alexander Fortenberry
  • Penelope E. Jankoski
  • Evan K. Stacy
  • Adam E. Smith
  • Tristan D. Clemons

Their work appears regularly in high-impact scientific journals such as:

  • Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Synthesis and solution properties of zwitterionic polymers.

    and Andrew B. Lowe;Charles L. McCormick

  • Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) radical polymerization and the synthesis of water-soluble (co)polymers under homogeneous conditions in organic and aqueous media

    Andrew B. Lowe;Charles L. McCormick

  • Water-Soluble Polymers. 81. Direct Synthesis of Hydrophilic Styrenic-Based Homopolymers and Block Copolymers in Aqueous Solution via RAFT

    Yoshiro Mitsukami;Michael S. Donovan;and Andrew B. Lowe;Charles L. McCormick

  • Solution studies of cellulose in lithium chloride and N,N-dimethylacetamide

    Charles L. McCormick;Peter A. Callais;Brewer H. Hutchinson

  • Aqueous RAFT polymerization: recent developments in synthesis of functional water-soluble (co)polymers with controlled structures.

    Charles L. Mccormick;Andrew B. Lowe

  • Facile preparation of transition metal nanoparticles stabilized by well-defined (co)polymers synthesized via aqueous reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization.

    Andrew B. Lowe;Brent S. Sumerlin;Michael S. Donovan;Charles L. McCormick

  • Stimuli-responsive amphiphilic (co)polymers via RAFT polymerization

    Adam E. Smith;Xuewei Xu;Charles L. McCormick

  • Advances in the synthesis of amphiphilic block copolymers via RAFT polymerization: Stimuli-responsive drug and gene delivery

    Adam W. York;Stacey E. Kirkland;Charles L. McCormick

  • THE LITHIUM CHLORIDE/DIMETHYLACETAMIDE SOLVENT FOR CELLULOSE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

    T.R. Dawsey;Charles L. McCormick

  • Water-soluble copolymers: 27. Synthesis and aqueous solution behaviour of associative acrylamideN-alkylacrylamide copolymers

    Charles L. McCormick;Takamasa Nonaka;C.Brent Johnson

  • Direct Synthesis of Thermally Responsive DMA/NIPAM Diblock and DMA/NIPAM/DMA Triblock Copolymers via Aqueous, Room Temperature RAFT Polymerization†

    Anthony J. Convertine;Brad S. Lokitz;Yuliya Vasileva;Leslie J. Myrick

  • Thermally Responsive Vesicles and Their Structural “Locking” through Polyelectrolyte Complex Formation

    Yuting Li;Brad S. Lokitz;Charles L. McCormick

  • Water-Soluble Polymers

    Charles L. McCormick;Andrew B. Lowe;Neil Ayres

  • Synthesis of Reversible Shell Cross-Linked Micelles For Controlled Release of Bioactive Agents

    Yuting Li;Brad S. Lokitz;Steven P. Armes;Charles L. McCormick

  • Facile, controlled, room-temperature RAFT polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide.

    Anthony J. Convertine;Neil Ayres;Charles W. Scales;and Andrew B. Lowe

  • Hydrolytic Susceptibility of Dithioester Chain Transfer Agents and Implications in Aqueous RAFT Polymerizations

    David B. Thomas;Anthony J. Convertine;Roger D. Hester;and Andrew B. Lowe

  • RAFT Synthesis of a Thermally Responsive ABC Triblock Copolymer Incorporating N-Acryloxysuccinimide for Facile in Situ Formation of Shell Cross-Linked Micelles in Aqueous Media†

    Yuting Li;Brad S. Lokitz;Charles L. McCormick

  • Fluorescent Labeling of RAFT-Generated Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) via a Facile Maleimide−Thiol Coupling Reaction†

    Charles W. Scales;and Anthony J. Convertine;Charles L. McCormick

  • Raft Polymerization of N,N-Dimethylacrylamide Utilizing Novel Chain Transfer Agents Tailored for High Reinitiation Efficiency and Structural Control†

    Michael S. Donovan;Andrew B. Lowe;Brent S. Sumerlin;Charles L. McCormick

  • “Schizophrenic” Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers Synthesized via Aqueous RAFT Polymerization: From Micelles to Vesicles††Paper number 143 in a series on Water-Soluble Polymers.

    Adam E. Smith;Xuewei Xu;Stacey E. Kirkland-York;Daniel A. Savin

  • Water-soluble polymers : synthesis, solution properties, and applications

    Shalaby W. Shalaby;Charles L. McCormick;George B. Butler

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew B. Lowe
Andrew B. Lowe Curtin University
Brent S. Sumerlin
Brent S. Sumerlin University of Florida
Charles E. Hoyle
Charles E. Hoyle University of Southern Mississippi
Robert B. Moore
Robert B. Moore Virginia Tech
Roger S. Porter
Roger S. Porter University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marek W. Urban
Marek W. Urban Clemson University
Yueh-Lin Loo
Yueh-Lin Loo Princeton University
Eugenia Kharlampieva
Eugenia Kharlampieva University of Alabama at Birmingham
Steven P. Armes
Steven P. Armes University of Sheffield
Veena Choudhary
Veena Choudhary Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

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