Robert Dodge

• Appointment in Prof. Mattice's group: Graduate student, 1988-1992.
• Ph. D. Dissertation: "Conformations of Aromatic Polyester Determined by Luminescence Spectroscopy" 1992.
• Current position: Research Investigator, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
• Topics of research with Prof. Mattice: Photophysics of polyesters, mobility of inclusion complexes

Refereed publications coauthored with Prof. Mattice

• Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "The conformation of the intramolecular dimer in poly(ethylene terephthalate)" J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 1993, 31, 207-212.
• Zuniga, I.; Bahar, I.; Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "Molecular dynamics analysis of transitions between rotational isomers in polymethylene with discrete hydrogen atoms" J. Chem. Phys. 1991, 95, 5348-5354.
• Bahar, I.; Zuniga, I.; Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "Conformational statistics of poly(dimethyl siloxane). II. Rotational isomeric state approach with modified energy parameters" Macromolecules 1991, 24, 2993-2998.
• Bahar, I.; Zuniga, I.; Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "Conformational statistics of poly(dimethyl siloxane). I. Probability distribution of rotational isomers from molecular dynamics simulations" Macromolecules 1991, 24, 2986-2992.
• Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "Simulation by molecular dynamics of poly(1,4-trans-butadiene) as an inclusion complex in the channel in crystalline perhydrotriphenylene" Macromolecules 1991, 24, 2709-2714.
• Mattice, W.L.; Zuniga, I.; Dodge, R.; Bahar, I. "Use of molecular dynamics trajectories for the formulation of the statistical weight matrices for chains of bonds with symmetric threefold rotation potentials" Comput. Polym. Sci. 1991, 1, 35-40.
• Mendicuti, F.; Saiz, E.; Patel, B.; Dodge, R.; Mattice, W.L. "Kerr Constants of Methyl Benzoate and the Dimethyl Esters of Phthalic, Isophthalic, and Terephthalic Acids" J. Phys. Chem. 1990, 94, 8374-8378.