Jimmy W. Mays
Professional Experience
1988 – present Consultant to the Chemistry and Biomaterials Community
2018 – present Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee (UT)
2002 – 2017 Professor of Chemistry, UT
2002 – 2017 Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2013 – 2017 Professor, UT Institute of Biomedical Engineering
2010 – 2015 President, BBB Elastomers, LLC
2005 – 2008 Principal Technical Advisor, FUJIFILM Hunt Smart Surfaces, LLC
2000 – 2017 Partner and Co-Founder, Smart Surfaces, LLC
1995 – 2001 Professor of Chemistry, UAB, Birmingham, AL
1992 – 1995 Associate Professor of Chemistry, UAB, Birmingham, AL
1988 ‑ 1992 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UAB, Birmingham, AL
1983 ‑ 1987 Research Chemist, Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, DE
Consulting Experience
I have worked continuously as a consultant since 1988. My experience has spanned patent litigations, product liability, and trade secret disputes. I have worked for some of the top companies in the chemistry and biomaterials fields including Dow Chemical, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Integra Life Sciences, Exxon, 3M, Heraeus Medical, Chevron-Phillips, CIBA Vision, Flex-Seal, and Halliburton. I have testified in deposition over 30 times, and I have testified in trials more than a dozen times in the U.S. and abroad.
Education
Ph.D., Polymer Science, University of Akron, with L. J. Fetters (1984)
B.S., Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi (1979)
Awards
Fellow of American Chemical Society
Founding Fellow, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry
ACS Southern Chemist Award
ACS Herman Mark Senior Scholar Award
Distinguished Service Award, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry
Fellow of ACS Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering Division
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
ACS Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award
Tosoh Bioscience Lifetime Achievement Award (in recognition of lifetime dedication to the field of polymer science)
Selected Publications
“Recent Advances in Thermoplastic Elastomers from Living Polymerizations: Macromolecular Architectures and Supramolecular Chemistry”, Weiyu Wang, Wei Lu, Andrew Goodwin, Huiqun Wang, Panchao Yin, Nam-Goo Kang, Kunlun Hong, and Jimmy W. Mays, Progress in Polymer Science, 95, 1 – 31 (2019).
“Determining the Dilution Exponent for 1,4-Polybutadienes using Blends of Entangled Monodispersed Star with Unentangled, Low Molecular Weight Linear Polymers”, Ryan Hall, Beom-Goo Kang, Sanghoon Lee, Taihyun Chang, David C. Venerus, Nikolaos Hadjichristidis, Jimmy Mays, and Ronald G. Larson, Macromolecules, 52, 1757 – 1771 (2019).
“Super-Stretchable Polymeric Elastomers with Healable Property and Functionality”, Peng-Fei Cao, Bingrui Li, Tao Hong, Jacob Townsend, Zhe Qiang, Kunyue Xing, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis, Yangyang Wang, Jimmy W. Mays, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Tomonori Saito, Adv. Functional Mater., 28, 1800741 (2018).
“Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications”, H. Feng, X. Lu, W. Wang, N.-G. Kang, and J. W. Mays, Polymers, 9, 494 – 524 (2017).
“All Acrylic-Based Thermoplastic Elastomers with High Upper Service Temperature and Superior Mechanical Properties”, Wei Lu, Yangyang Wang, Weiyu Wang, Shiwang Cheng, Jiahua Zhu, Yuewen Xu, Kunlun Hong, Nam-Goo Kang, and Jimmy Mays, Polymer Chemistry, journal front cover, 8, 5741 – 5748 (2017).
“Design and Synthesis of Multigraft Copolymer Thermoplastic Elastomers: Superelastomers”, Huiqun Wang, Wei Lu, Weiyu Wang, Priyank Narayandas Shah, Kostas Misichronis, Nam-Goo Kang, and Jimmy W. Mays, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 219, 1700254 (2018).
“All-Acrylic Multigraft Copolymer Superelastomers: Facile Synthesis and Exceptional Mechanical Behavior”, Wei Lu, Andrew Goodwin, Yangyang Wang, Panchao Yin, Weiyu Wang, Jiahua Zhu, Ting Wu, Xinyi Lu, Bin Hu, Kunlun Hong, Nam-Goo Kang, and Jimmy Mays, Polymer Chemistry, 9, 160 – 168 (2018).