Melissa Gordon

• Polymers
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Transport Phenomena
• Experimental Design and Statistics

• Stimuli-responsive polymers
• Self-healing polymers
• Polymer design and synthesis
• Rheology and materials characterization

• Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
• The Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award
• NSF CAREER Award
• American Chemical Society PRF Undergraduate New Investigator Award
• American Chemical Society Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award
• NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• M.L. Dodge*, L. Goodhope, Q. Pisacane, R. Tang, S.I. Harrill, H.M. LaFrance, A.M. Lehman-Chong, J.F. Stanzione, III , L. Soh, M.B. Gordon, “Thermosets from Birch Bark: A Holistic Approach using Green Solvents and Processes,” ACS Omega (2025).
• S.R. Sergi, J.J. Hastie, F.J.M. Smith, A.G. Devlin, E.G. Bury, M.L. Paterson, S.B. Kosednar, L.S. Sefcik, M.B. Gordon, “Swelling-Shrinking Behavior of a Hydrogel with a CO₂-Switchable Volume Phase Transition Temperature,” Macromolecular Rapid Communications (2025).
• I.G. Mercer, K. Yu, A.J. Devanny, M.B. Gordon, L.J. Kaufman, “Plasticity variable collagen-PEG interpenetrating networks modulate cell spreading,” Acta Biomaterialia (2024).
• S. Curia, S. Dautle, B. Satterfield, K. Yorke, C.E. Cranley, B.E. Dobson, J.J. La Scala, L. Soh, M.B. Gordon, J.F. Stanzione, III., “Betulin-based thermoplastics and thermosets through sustainable and industrially viable approaches: new insights for the valorization of an underutilized resource,” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2019).
• M.B. Gordon, C.J. Kloxin, N.J. Wagner, “Aging and nonlinear rheology of thermoreversible colloidal gels,” Journal of Rheology (2017).
• M.B. Gordon, J.M. French, N.J. Wagner, C.J. Kloxin, “Dynamic bonds in covalently crosslinked polymer networks for photo-activated strengthening and healing,” Advanced Materials (2015).

*Lafayette College undergraduate authors are underlined.