The George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory is the home for cutting-edge polymer research at the University of Florida. Led by the current chair, Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin, nine research groups make up the Butler Laboratory (Sumerlin, Evans, Castellano, Colina, Miller, Narayanan, Savin, Veige, and Wagener). 

Members of Butler Research run a comprehensive instrumentation lab, the Polymer Chemistry Characterization Laboratory (PCCL). The Butler Lab also hosts UF POLY-PMSE, the organization that has won Best Student Chapter 5 times since its foundation in 2012. 

Follow the Butler Lab (@ButlerPolymer) and POLY/PMSE (@ufpolypmse) on X! 

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