Chad Booth UNC at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry CB# 3290, Venable Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290 phone: (919) 962 1610 fax: (919) 962 2388 email: cbooth@email.unc.edu

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Projects:

	Past: Thermal and Mechanical Behavior of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
	Present: Liquid Crystal Phase Behavior of Fluorinated Surfactants and Fluorinated Polymers in CO2

	Chad Jeffrey Booth, An Investigation Into The Thermal And Mechanical Behavior Of Some Structurally Unique Linear Liquid Crystal Polyesters And Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2000.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, X-Ray Characterization of Liquid Crystal Nematic Elastomers, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, MS, USA, Spring 2000.
	Puwei Liu, Chaobin He, Chad Booth, and Anselm C. Griffin, “Synthesis and Characterization of Liquid Crystal Trimers Based on Laterally Attached Terphenyls”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1999, 332, 2753.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, Mechanical Characterization of Liquid Crystal Nematic Elastomers, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Tupelo, MS, USA, Spring 1999.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, “Elastomeric Nematic Polyester – Towards Auxetic Materials”, ACS Polym. Preprint, 1998, 39, 742.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, LC Networks - A Molecular Engineering Approach To Auxetic Polymers, 17th International Liquid Crystals Conference, Strasbourg, France Summer 1998.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, LC Networks - A Molecular Engineering Approach To Auxetic Polymers, American Chemical Society
	National Meeting, Polymer Division, Las Vegas, NV, USA Fall 1998. Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, Elastomeric Nematic Polyesters, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, MS, USA Spring 1998.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, “Elastomeric Nematic Polyesters”, ACS Polym. Preprints, 1997, 38, 357.
	Chad Booth and Anselm C. Griffin, Elastomeric Nematic Polyesters- Towards Auxetic Materials, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Polymer Division, Boston, MA, USA Fall 1997.
	Chad Booth, Puwei Liu, and Anselm C. Griffin, Model Compounds for Auxetic Liquid Crystalline Polymers, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, MS, USA Spring 1997.

	Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Materials
	Liquid Crystalline Materials