Donald A. Cameron

University of Hartford, B.S. in Chemistry, 1992

Prior undergraduate coursework included physics, biology, microbiology, biochemistry and genetics.
 

Experience: University of Florida,

Teaching Assistant, 1992-1993

Research Assistant- John R. Reynolds, Ph.D., Research advisor (1993-present).

Implemented research in the area of conducting polymers, polyelectrolytes and composites. See research interests (below). Responsible for the maintenance of laboratory instrumentation including HPLC, GC, FTIR, UV-Vis-NIR, Impedance Analyzer, Thermal Analysis equipment, and Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM). Designed novel electrochemical cells for EQCM, spectroelectrochemistry, and shear electropolymerization. Experience with data acquisition and control using IBM compatible platforms (DOS/3.11/WIN95/OS2), Visual Basic and GPIB programming. Lab Supervisor and Safety coordinator for the Polymer Research Group. Made extensive upgrades to the characterization capabilities of the Polymer Research Group, particularly in the area of Size Exclusion Chromatography (GPC).
 

Monsanto Chemical Co.

Research Technician in Plastics Technology (1985-1992)

Maintained analytical laboratory for the characterization of polystyrene based polymers and blends. Analyzed experimental and competitive polymer systems for both routine and troubleshooting purposes. Experience with emulsion, suspension, and continuous mass polymerizations at lab and pilot plant scales. Developed on-line testing procedures. Shift supervisor for pilot plant operations.
 

Research Interests:

Characterization of polymers. Introduction of order into conducting polymers and electroactive polymer blends using shear flow fields and liquid crystalline media. Artificial muscles and actuators. MEMS. Conducting polymers as interconnects and masks in microelectronics. Process analytical chemistry. Data acquisition and control. Electrochemistry of conducting polyelectrolyte/polyheterocycle molecular composites. Solution properties of soluble conducting polymers. GPC/on-line viscometry. Polyelectrolytes.
 

Personal Skills:

The personal strengths that I bring to my job include excellent written and verbal communication skills, an ability to bring together information, concepts, and people from disparate fields to form new ideas and solutions, an aptitude for being a quick study when provided with new data, and an enthusiasm for my work.

Publications:

"Aromatic and Rigid Rod Polyelectrolytes based on Sulfonated Poly(Benzobisthiazoles)"S. Kim, D.A. Cameron, Y. Lee, J.R. Reynolds* and C.R. Savage Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol 34, p 481 (1996.)

"Conducting Molecular Composites of Polypyrrole and Self-Doped Polyanilines" Donald A. Cameron and John R. Reynolds, Manuscript in preparation.
 

"Comparison of Self-Doped Polyanilines: Conduction Mechanism and Solution Properties" Donald A. Cameron and John R. Reynolds, Manuscript in preparation.
 

"Oriented Conducting Polymers Electropolymerized Under Shear"

Donald A. Cameron and John R. Reynolds, Manuscript in preparation.
 

"On-line Analysis of Styrenic Process Streams Utilizing FTIR-ATR with Multivariate Calibration" Donald A. Cameron, Monsanto Company Confidential (1992)
 

"Procedures Manual for the Characterization of ABS Polymers" Donald A. Cameron, Monsanto Company Confidential (1992)
 

Presentations:

"Probing the Electrochemistry of Electroactive Polymer Composites." Donald A. Cameron, John R. Reynolds, (Poster) Florida Advanced Materials Chemistry Conference, March 1998.
 

"Conducting Molecular Composites of Polypyrrole with Electroactive Polymeric Dopant Ions" Donald A. Cameron and John R. Reynolds, Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) 1996, 37 (1), 684. (Poster)
 

"Shear Induced Anisotropy in Polyelectrolyte-Doped Polypyrrole." Donald A. Cameron. (Poster) Gordon Conference on Ion Containing Polymers, July 1995.
 

"Conducting Molecular Composites of Polypyrrole and Sulfonated Poly(benzobisthiazole.)," Donald A. Cameron, Seungho Kim, and John R. Reynolds. (Poster) Florida ACS Meeting, June 1995. Received Award for best poster in category (Polymers)
 

"Lyotropic Rigid Rod Polyelectrolytes: Sulfonated Poly(benzothiazole)"

Donald A. Cameron, Seungho Kim, and John R. Reynolds. (Poster) Florida Advanced Materials Conference, March 1995.
 

References:

Dr. John R. Reynolds, Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida, Dept. of Chemistry, P.O.B. 117200, Gainesville, Fl 32611-7200. (352)-392-9151. Reynolds@chem.ufl.edu.
 

Dr. Kenneth B. Wagener, Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida, Dept. of Chemistry, P.O.B. 117200, Gainesville, Fl 32611-7200. (352)-392-4666. Wagener@chem.ufl.edu.
 

Mr. Thomas McAuley, Manager, Plastics Technology, Continuous Process Development, Bayer Corp., Plastics Division, 730 Worcester St., Indian Orchard, MA 01151. (413)-750-7832. McAuley@map.com.