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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For important contributions on the phase behavior of polymer blends, particularly block co-polymers.

Overview

Frank S. Bates is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to related subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, polymers and plastics, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering.

The research topics covered in their work include:

  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems

Frank S. Bates has contributed extensively to high-impact journals, with a strong publication record in venues such as:

  • Macromolecules
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • ACS Applied Polymer Materials
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ACS Nano

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Timothy P. Lodge
  • Kevin D. Dorfman
  • Christopher J. Ellison
  • Benjamin J. Hackel
  • Marc A. Hillmyer

Recent papers authored by or involving Frank S. Bates include:

  • "Defining the Macromolecules of Tomorrow through Synergistic Sustainable Polymer Research", 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Methyl cellulose solutions and gels: fibril formation and gelation properties", 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • "Compatibilization of iPP/HDPE Blends with PE-g-iPP Graft Copolymers", 2020, ACS Macro Letters
  • "A15, σ, and a Quasicrystal: Access to Complex Particle Packings via Bidisperse Diblock Copolymer Blends", 2020, ACS Macro Letters
  • "Emergence of a C15 Laves Phase in Diblock Polymer/Homopolymer Blends", 2020, ACS Macro Letters

Their work has been recognized with several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2005)
  • David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society (2004)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2002) for contributions on the phase behavior of polymer blends, particularly block co-polymers

Best Publications

  • Block Copolymer Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment

    Frank S. Bates;Glenn H. Fredrickson;Glenn H. Fredrickson

  • Block Copolymers—Designer Soft Materials

    Frank S. Bates;Glenn H. Fredrickson

  • Polymersomes: tough vesicles made from diblock copolymers.

    Bohdana M. Discher;You Yeon Won;David S. Ege;James C M Lee

  • Unifying Weak- and Strong-Segregation Block Copolymer Theories

    M. W. Matsen;F. S. Bates

  • Polymer-polymer phase behavior.

    Frank S. Bates

  • Polyisoprene-Polystyrene Diblock Copolymer Phase Diagram near the Order-Disorder Transition

    Ashish K. Khandpur;Ashish K. Khandpur;Stephan Förster;Frank S Bates;Ian W. Hamley

  • On the Origins of Morphological Complexity in Block Copolymer Surfactants

    Sumeet Jain;Frank S. Bates

  • Multiblock Polymers: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

    Frank S. Bates;Marc A. Hillmyer;Timothy P. Lodge;Christopher M. Bates

  • Dynamics of Block Copolymers: Theory and Experiment

    Glenn H. Fredrickson;Frank S. Bates

  • Absolute calibration of small‐angle neutron scattering data

    G. D. Wignall;F. S. Bates

  • Giant Wormlike Rubber Micelles

    You Yeon Won;H. Ted Davis;Frank S. Bates

  • Self-Assembly of Janus Dendrimers into Uniform Dendrimersomes and Other Complex Architectures

    Virgil Percec;Daniela A. Wilson;Pawaret Leowanawat;Christopher J. Wilson

  • 50th Anniversary Perspective: Block Polymers—Pure Potential

    Christopher M. Bates;Frank S. Bates

  • Origins of Complex Self-Assembly in Block Copolymers

    M. W. Matsen;F. S. Bates

  • Molecular Weight Dependence of Polymersome Membrane Structure, Elasticity, and Stability

    Harry Bermudez;Aaron K. Brannan;Daniel A. Hammer;Frank S. Bates

  • Biodegradable polymersomes loaded with both paclitaxel and doxorubicin permeate and shrink tumors, inducing apoptosis in proportion to accumulated drug

    Fariyal Ahmed;Refika I. Pakunlu;Aaron Brannan;Frank Bates

  • Block copolymer microstructures in the intermediate-segregation regime

    M. W. Matsen;M. W. Matsen;Frank S Bates

  • Polymer vesicles in vivo: correlations with PEG molecular weight.

    Peter J. Photos;Lucie Bacakova;Bohdana Discher;Frank S. Bates

  • Molecular Weight Dependence of Polymersome Membrane Elasticity and Stability

    Harry Bermudez;Aaron K. Brannan;Daniel A. Hammer;Frank S. Bates

  • Combining polyethylene and polypropylene: Enhanced performance with PE/iPP multiblock polymers.

    James M. Eagan;Jun Xu;Rocco Di Girolamo;Christopher M. Thurber

  • Fluctuation effects in a symmetric diblock copolymer near the order–disorder transition

    Frank S. Bates;Jeffrey H. Rosedale;Jeffrey H. Rosedale;Glenn H. Fredrickson;Glenn H. Fredrickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. Lodge
Timothy P. Lodge University of Minnesota
Marc A. Hillmyer
Marc A. Hillmyer University of Minnesota
Kristoffer Almdal
Kristoffer Almdal Technical University of Denmark
Christopher W. Macosko
Christopher W. Macosko University of Minnesota
Kell Mortensen
Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Kevin D. Dorfman
Kevin D. Dorfman University of Minnesota
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
Theresa M. Reineke
Theresa M. Reineke University of Minnesota
George D. Wignall
George D. Wignall Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel A. Hammer
Daniel A. Hammer University of Pennsylvania

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