Darrell Reneker

Contact Information

Darrell H. Reneker
Professor of Polymer Science
Department of Polymer Science
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325, USA

Phone: (330)-972-6949
E-mail address:
    dhr[AT]polymer.uakron.edu

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Education:
1959 Ph. D., physics, University of Chicago
1955 M. S., physics, University of Chicago
1951 B.S., electrical engineering, Iowa State University

Research Interests
Polymer physics; computer modeling of conformational defects in polymer crystals; morphology; scanning probe of microscopy polymers; electrospinning of polymer nanofibers.

Selected Publications

Reneker, DH;Yarin, AL;Fong, H;Koombhongse, S. "Bending instability of electrically charged liquid jets of polymer solutions in electrospinning" J APPL PHYS, 87: (9) 4531-4547; Part 1, MAY 1 2000

Alexander L. Yarin, Wenxia Liu, and Darrell H. Reneker. "Motion of droplets along thin fibers with temperature gradient" J. Appl. Phys. 91(7) 4751 (01 Apr 2002)

Hao Fong, Iksoo Chun and Darrell H. Reneker, "Beaded Nanofibers Formed During Electrospinning", Polymer 40, 4585-4592, 1999.

Iksoo Chun, Darrell H. Reneker, Hao Fong "Carbon Nanofibers from Polyacrylonitrile and Mesophase Pitch", Journal of Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, No. 1, 36-41, 1999.

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "Elastomeric Nanofibers of SBS Triblock Copolymer", Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Edition, Vol. 37, 3488-3493, 1999.

Zhihao Chen, Mark D. Foster, Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "Structure of Foly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane) in Electrospun Nanofibers", Macromolecules, 34 (18), 6156 -6158, 2001.

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, In Structure Formation In Polymeric Fibers: Chapter 6, Electrospinning and Formation of Nanofibers, D.R. Salem & M.V. Sussman, Eds., Carl Hanser Verlag, 2001.

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "The Study of Mechanism of Electrospinning" the First MATNET Symposium, pp. 40, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 8, 1997

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "The Formation of Beaded Nanofibers by Electrospinning", 3rd National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Akron, Ohio, June 21-24, 1998.

Iksoo Chun, Hao Fong, Darrell H. Reneker, Xioayan Fang, Joe Deitzel, Nora Beck Tan, and Kristen Kearns, "Carbon Nanofibers From Polyacrylonitrile and Mesophase Pitch", proceedings of the 43rd International SAMPE Symposium, Anaheim, California, May 31-June 4, 1998.

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "Polymer Nanofibers", 22nd Asilomar Conference on Polymer Materials, Pacific Grove, California, February 14-17, 1999.

Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "Generation of Elastomeric Nanofiber by Electrospinning", the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 44, No. 1, Part I, pp. 619, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20-26, 1999

Hao Fong, Darrell H. Reneker, and Sureeporn Koombhongse, "Nanofibers of Polymers", the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 44, No. 1 Part II, pp. 1562, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20-26, 1999

Hao Fong, Darrell H. Reneker and Dale Ertley, "Carbon Nanofibers from Polymers and Pitch", Revolutionary Aerospace Micro- and Nano-structure Applications symposium (RAMNAS), Dayton, Ohio, October 27-28, 1999.

Darrell H. Reneker, Hao Fong, Sureeporn Koombhongse and Alex. L. Yarin, "Electrical Process for Making Polymer Nanofibers", The Polymer Processing Society (PPS), Asia/Australia Regional Meeting 1999 (PPS-RM 1999), B-8 (ID149), Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-3, 1999.

Darrell H. Reneker, Hao Fong, Sureeporn Koombhongse and Alex L. Yarin, "Polymer Nanofibers, with a High Ratio of Surface Area to Mass, Made by Elelctrospinning", Preprints of the 6th Pacific Polymer Conference, p.p.527, Garden Hotel, Guangzhou, China, December 7-11, 1999

Hao Fong, Darrell H. Reneker, "Stabilization and Carbonization of Mesophase Pitch nanofiber", the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN, March 20-24, 2000.

Hao Fong, Zhihao Chen, Mark F. Foster, Darrell H. Reneker, "Structural Study of Poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane) in Electrospun Nanofibers and Poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane)-b-Poly(isoprene) Diblock Copolymer in Bulk, the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN, March 20-24, 2000

Jia H, Zhu G, Vugrinovich B, Kataphinan W, Reneker DH, Wang P., "Enzyme-carrying polymeric nanofibers prepared via electrospinning for use as unique biocatalysts.", Biotechnol Prog. 2002 Sep-Oct;18(5):1027-32.

Tsukruk VV, Reneker DH., Periodic surface instabilities in stressed polymer solids., Phys Rev B Condens Matter. 1995 Mar 1;51(9):6089-6092.

Selected Patents:
Hao Fong and Darrell H. Reneker, "Production of Ribbon Shaped Polymeric Nanofibers, and Ribbon Shaped Carbon Nanofibers with High Thermal and Electrical Conductivity"

Smith; Daniel J. (Stow, OH); Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH); McManus; Albert T. (San Antonio, TX); Schreuder-Gibson; Heidi L. (Holliston, MA); Mello; Charlene (Rochester, MA); Sennett; Michael S. (Sudbury, MA)
Electrospun fibers and an apparatus therefor
June 22, 2004 [6,753,454]

Smith; Daniel J. (Stow, OH); Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH)
Nitric oxide-modified linear poly(ethylenimine) fibers and uses thereof
May 18, 2004 [6,737,447]

Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH)
Process and apparatus for the production of nanofibers
February 24, 2004 [6,695,992]

Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH)
Process and apparatus for the production of nanofibers
February 18, 2003 [6,520,425]

Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH); Chun; Iksoo (Flemington, NJ); Ertley; Dale (Kent, OH)
Process and apparatus for the production of nanofibers
May 7, 2002 [6,382,526]

Dzenis; Yuris A. (Lincoln, NE); Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH)
Delamination resistant composites prepared by small diameter fiber reinforcement at ply interfaces
July 24, 2001 [6,265,333]

Zarkoob; Shahrzad (Cuyahoga Falls, OH); Reneker; Darrell H. (Akron, OH); Ertley; Dale (Kent, OH); Eby; R. K. (Akron, OH); Hudson; Steven D. (Cleveland Heights, OH)
Synthetically spun silk nanofibers and a process for making the same
August 29, 2000 [6,110,590]