Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Regents Professor, 2007
Head, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 1999 _ present
Co-Director, UMN MRSEC, 1998-1999
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, 1996 _ present
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 1991 _ present
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 1989 -1991
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1988 _ 1989
Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1982 _ 1988

Selected Publications

J. Chatterjee, S. Jain, F.S. Bates, "Comprehensive Phase Behavior of Poly(isoprene-b-styrene- b-ethylene oxide) Triblock Copolymers", Macromolecules, 40, 2882 (2007)

N. Zhou, F. S. Bates and T. P. Lodge, "Mesoporous Membrane Templated by a Polymer Bicontinuous Microemulsion", Nano Letters, 6, 2354-2357 (2006)

S. Jain, X. Gong, L.E. Scriven, F.S. Bates, "Disordered Network State in Hydrated Block Copolymer Surfactants," Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 138304 (2006)

P. P. Ghoroghchian, P. Frail, K. Susumu, D. Blessington, F.S. Bates, B. Chance, D.A. Hammer, M.J. Therien, "NIR-emissive Polymersomes: Soft Matter Self-assembly Meets In vivo Optical Imaging," Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sci., 102, 2922 (2005)

S. Jain, F.S. Bates, "On the Origins of Morphological Complexity in Aqueous Dispersions of Block Copolymer Surfactants," Science, 300, 460 (2003). A. Phatak, L. Lim, C. K. Reaves, F. S. Bates, "On the Toughness of Glassy-Semicrystalline Multiblock Copolymers," Macromolecules, 39, 6221 (2006)

L. Wu, T.P. Lodge, F.S. Bates, "Effect of Block Number on Multiblock Copolymer Lamellae Alignment under Oscillatory Shear," J. Rheology, 49, 1231 (2005)

T.H. Epps, III, E.W. Cochran, T.S. Bailey, R.S. Waletzko, C.M. Hardy, F.S. Bates, "Ordered Network Phases in Linear Poly(Isoprene-b-Styrene-b-Ethylene Oxide) Triblock Copolymers," Macromolecules, 37, 8325 (2004)

E.W. Cochran, F.S. Bates, "Shear-induced Network-to-Network Transition in a Block Copolymer Melt," Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 087802 (2004)

J.M. Dean, N.E. Verghese, H.Q. Pham, F.S. Bates, "Tough Flame Retardant Epoxy Resins," Macromolecules, 36, 9267 (2003).