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1. Solovyev, M. E.; Muñoz, G.; Masaeli, E.; Pittman, C. U., Jr.; Smith, D. W., Jr. Polycondensation of Model Perfluoroolefins with Bisphenols toward Upcycling of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). J. Fluorine Chem. 2026.

2. Caldona, Eugene B., David O. Wipf, Dennis W. Smith, and Summer L. Nash. "Polymeric-coated electrodes for sensing analytes in liquid and methods of making the same." U.S. Patent 12,313,617, 2025.

3. Muñoz, G.; Chamberlain, K. M.; Solovyev, M. E.; Smith, D. W., Jr.; Pittman, C. U., Jr. Electrophilic Routes to 6F Polymers and Attempted Synthesis of Semi-fluorinated Group IVB Metallocene Polymers. J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater. 2024, 34 (7), 2834–2854.

4. Muñoz, Gustavo, Kari M. Chamberlain, Sumudu Athukorale, Charles U. Pittman Jr, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Semi-fluorinated (6F) polyaryl ethers and polyphenylenes via interfacial electrophilic condensation polymerization with hexafluoroacetone hydrate." Polymer 293 (2024): 126642.

5.  Iacono, Scott T., Nathan J. Weeks, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Systematic study of nucleophile additions to 1-bromo-4-(trifluorovinyloxy) benzene: A versatile intermediate toward fluorinated ethers of synthetic interest." Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 271 (2023): 110187.

6. Smith, Dennis W., Behzad Farajidizaji, and Ernesto I. Borrego. "Polymers and co-polymers for polymer matrix composites and high yield carbon-carbon composite structures therefrom." U.S. Patent Application 18/761,009, filed October 24, 2024.

7. Muñoz, Gustavo, Kari M. Chamberlain, Sumudu Athukorale, Guorong Ma, Xiaodan Gu, Charles U. Pittman Jr, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Teaching Old Polymers New Tricks: Improved Synthesis and Anomalous Crystallinity for a Lost Semi‐Fluorinated Polyaryl Ether via Interfacial Polymerization of Hexafluoroacetone Hydrate and Diphenyl Ether." Macromolecular Rapid Communications 44, no. 4 (2023): 2200737.

8. Smith Jr, Dennis W., and Babloo Sharma. "Renewable resource and waste material derivatives for oil and gas recovery." U.S. Patent 11,466,201, issued October 11, 2022.

9. Shelar, Ketki Eknath, Karl M. Mukeba, Kelly Mills, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Renewable isosorbide‐enchained semi‐fluorinated aromatic ether polymers." Journal of Polymer Science 60, no. 16 (2022): 2500-2507.

10. Borrego, Ernesto I., Sumudu Athukorale, Saidulu Gorla, Alison K. Duckworth, Myles Baker, Jonathan Rosales, William W. Johnson et al. "High carbon yielding and melt processable bis-ortho-diynylarene (BODA)-derived resins for rapid processing of dense carbon/carbon composites." Composites Part B: Engineering 242 (2022): 110080.

11. Mukeba, Karl M., Ketki E. Shelar, Behzad Faradizaji, Eugene B. Caldona, Charles U. Pittman Jr, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Semi-fluorinated Poly (aryl ether sulfone) s via step-growth polymerization of perfluorocyclohexene with bisphenols." Polymer 253 (2022): 124937.

12. Caldona, Eugene B., David O. Wipf, Dennis W. Smith Jr, and Summer L. Nash. "Polymeric-coated electrodes for sensing analytes in liquid and methods of making the same." U.S. Patent Application 17/491,003, filed March 31, 2022.

13. Shelar, Ketki Eknath, Nghia Le, Karl M. Mukeba, Sriloy Dey, Behzad Farajidizaji, Sumudu Athukorale, Charles U. Pittman et al. "Triphenylene containing blue-light emitting semi-fluorinated aryl ether polymers with excellent thermal and photostability." Materials Chemistry Frontiers 6, no. 11 (2022): 1391-1404.

14. Caldona, Eugene B., Hunter O. Brown, Dennis W. Smith Jr, and David O. Wipf. "Superhydrophobic/superoleophilic surfaces by electroless nanoparticle deposition and perfluorinated polymer modification." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 60, no. 39 (2021): 14239-14250.

15. Farajidizaji, Behzad, Ernesto I. Borrego, Sumudu Athukorale, Mehdi Jazi, Bruno Donnadieu, Charles U. Pittman Jr, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Triphenylene-Enchained Perfluorocyclobutyl Aryl Ether Polymers: A Modular Synthetic Route to Processable Thermoplastics Approaching Upper Limit T g and Photostability." Macromolecules 54, no. 16 (2021): 7666-7672.

16. Caldona, Eugene B., Dennis W. Smith Jr, and David O. Wipf. "Surface electroanalytical approaches to organic polymeric coatings." Polymer International 70, no. 7 (2021): 927-937.

17. Caldona, Eugene B., Ernesto I. Borrego, Ketki E. Shelar, Karl M. Mukeba, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Ring-forming polymerization toward 8.perfluorocyclobutyl and ortho-diynylarene derived materials: from synthesis to practical applications." Materials 14, no. 6 (2021): 1486.

18. Caldona, Eugene B., David O. Wipf, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "Characterization of a tetrafunctional epoxy-amine coating for corrosion protection of mild steel." Progress in Organic Coatings 151 (2021): 106045.

19. Borrego, Ernesto I., Behzad Farajidizaji, Hossein Toghiani, Charles U. Pittman Jr, and Dennis W. Smith Jr. "PROCESSABLE ENEDIYNE RESINS AND THE HIGH YIELDING GLASSY CARBONS DERIVED THEREFROM." (2021).

20. Caldona, Eugene B., Min Zhang, Guangchao Liang, T. Keith Hollis, Charles Edwin Webster, Dennis W. Smith Jr, and David O. Wipf. "Corrosion inhibition of mild steel in acidic medium by simple azole-based aromatic compounds." Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 880 (2021): 114858.

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