Conformations: Connecting the Chemical Structures and Material Behaviors of Polymers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138570320)

Alan Tonelli, born in Chicago in 1942,

received a BS in Chemical Engineering

from the University of Kansas, in 1964 and

a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Stanford

in 1968, where he was associated with the

late "Father of Polymer Science" and

Nobelist Professor Paul J. Flory. He was a

member of the Polymer Chemistry Research

Department at AT&T-BELL Laboratories,

Murray Hill, NJ for 23 years. In 1991, he

joined the Textile Engineering, Chemistry, & Science Department and the

Fiber & Polymer Science Program in the College of Textiles at North

Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he is currently the

INVISTA Prof. of Fiber & Polymer Chemistry. Professor Tonelli's research

interests include the conformations, configurations, and structures of synthetic

and biological polymers, their determination by NMR, and establishing

their effects on the physical properties of polymer materials. More

recently, the formation, study, and use of inclusion complexes formed with

polymers and small molecule guests, such as urea and cyclodextrins, to

nanostructure and safely deliver biologically active molecules to polymer

materials have been the focus of his research.

Jialong Shen, born in Hangzhou, China, in

1987, received a PhD in Fiber and Polymer

Science from North Carolina State

University, North Carolina, United States,

in 2017. His research interests include the

molecular basis of polymer glass transitions,

host-guest supramolecular chemistry, and

the applications of bio-macromolecules

such as carbohydrate polymers and enzymes.

He is currently a postdoctoral research

scholar in the Textile Engineering, Chemistry, & Science Department at

North Carolina State University.