Dr. Derek Patton
Professor
Bio
Derek L. Patton earned his B.S. in Chemistry (2000) from Jacksonville State University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry (2006) at the University of Houston. In 2006, he moved to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Polymers Division, and in 2008, he joined the faculty in the School of Polymer S