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JAMES E. McGRATH
JAMES E. McGRATH
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His industrial career spanned 17 years, during a prolific period of invention in polymer technology. In September 1975 he joined the chemistry faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where until his death he had a very successful career in cuttingedge research and education in broad aspects of polymeric materials.
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His collaborative research with Garth Wilkes in the Department of Chemical Engineering led to the Polymeric Materials and Interfaces Laboratory, predecessor of the university's Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute. With his broad experience, Jim naturally gravitated toward complex and challenging problems in polymer science with societal and economic impact, and his students carried with them his great enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research.
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His broad-based research ranged from new high-temperature polymers for adhesives and composites to creative multiphase polymeric systems, novel ionic polymerization systems, fundamental mechanistic understanding of cyclic siloxane polymerizations, and important new materials based on this chemistry. His latest research focused on high-performance polymeric membranes for fuel cells, water purification, and gas separations.
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240 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Jim and his wife, Marlene, had six children -- Colleen Kraft, Patricia McGrath Hoover, Matthew McGrath, Barbara McGrath Costain, Elizabeth Throckmorton, and Joseph McGrath -- and ten grandchildren. Jim spent the last 30 years of his life with his partner and collaborator Professor Judy Riffle, who provided constant care for him during his final days.
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