Kang Park (Ph.D.,1996)
"Morphological Studies of Poly(3-Dodecylthiophene)" Structure Formation in Conducting Polymers, Levon, K., Park, K.C., Cai, C., Synthetic Metals 84, 335-338 (1997). Liquid Crystallinity in Electrically Conducting Polymers, Levon, K., Pashkovich, E., Park, K. C., accepted in "Electrical and Optical Polymer Systems", Ed. G Wnek, D. Wise, Marcel Dekker, inc. New York, 5, 137-165 (1997). Liquid Crystallinity in Electro-Active Polymer: Poly(3-Dodecylthiophene), Park, K.C., Levon, K., Order-Disorder Transition in Alkylated Polythiophenes, Park K.C., Levon, K., Macromolecules 30 (11) 3175-3183 (1997). Conformational Study of Poly(para-Phenylene) by Molecular Mechanics Minimization, Park, K.C., Dodd, L.R., Kwei, T.K., Levon, K., Macromolecules 29 (22) 7149-7154, (1996).

Dexi Weng (Ph.D., 1996)
"Polymer and Small Molecule Modifications on Buckminsterfullerene" Alkylated Fullerenes in Polymer Blends, Weng, D., Levon, K., Mao, J., Lee, H.K., Tour, J., Schrivens, W.A., Stratification of Fullerenes, Weng, D., Levon, K., Mao, J., Lee, H.K., Tour, J., Schrivens, W.A., Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 349, 127-132, 1994.

Myong-Soo Kim (Ph.D., 1996)
"Crystallization, Miscibility and Morphology Studies of Comb-Shaped Poly(Octadecyl Acrylate) Blends" Crystallization and Phase Separation of High-Density Polytehylene in the Presence of Comb-Like Polymer, Poly(Octadecylacrylate), Kim, M.S., Levon, K., European Polymer Journal, (1997) Chromatic Changes in the Blends of Electroactive Polymers with Comb-Shaped Flexible Polymers, Kim, M.S., Levon, K., Macromol. Symp., 116, 73-104 (1997) Blend of Electroactive Poly(3-dodecylthiophene) with Comb-like Alkylated Polyacrylate, Kim, M.S., Levon, K., J. Pol. Sci., Phys. Ed., 7, 1025-1041 (1997). Blend of Electro-Active Complexes of Polyaniline and Surfactant with Alkylated Polyacrylate, M.S. Kim, K. Levon, J. Coll. and Interface Sci., 190, 17-36 (1997). Blends of Alkylated Comb-Like Polyacrylates with Copolymers with a Controlled Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Composition. Kim, M.S., Levon, K. J.Pol.Sci. 34, 1665-1677 (1996).

Yunshin Liao (Ph.D., 1995)
"Polymeric Dopants for Conducting Polymers" Ring-Substituted Polyaniline Copolymers Combining High Solubility with High Conductivity. Liao, Y.H., Angelopoulos, M., Levon, K., J. Pol. Sci.:Part A: Pol. Chem. 33, 2725-2729 (1995). Solubilization of Polyaniline in Water by Intermolecular Complexation, Liao, Y., Levon, K., Macromolecular Rapid Commun.,16, 393-397, (1995) Investigation of the Aggregation Phenomenon of Polyaniline in Dilute Solutions, Liao, Y., Kwei, T.K., Levon, K., Makromol. Chem. and Phys., 196, 3107-3116 (1995) Doping of Polyaniline with Polymeric Dopants in Solid State, Gel State and Solutions, Liao, Y., Levon, K., Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 6, 47-51 (1995).

Hak-Kil Kim (Ph.D., 1994)
"Competitive Crystallization between Main Chain and Side Chain in Poly(3-Alkylthiophene)s and their Blends with Ethylene Vinylacetate Copolymers"

Wen-Yue Zheng (Ph.D., 1994)
"Approaches towards Tractable Polyanilines through Self-Assembly" Doping-Induced Anisotropy in Amphiphatic Electro-Acitve Polymers, Zheng, W.-Y., Levon, K., Laakso, J., Österholm, J.-E., Taka, T., Polymer Journal, 28 (5) 412-418 (1996). Thermal Doping of Polyaniline-Dodecylbenzene Sulphonic Acid Complex without Auxiliary Solvents, Levon, K., Ho, K.-S., Zheng, W.-Y., Laakso, J., Kärnä, T., Taka, T., Polymer, 36, 2733-2738 (1995). Phase Behaviors and Interactions of N-Alkylated Polyaniline and Ethylene-co-vinylacetate Blends, Zheng, W.-Y., Levon, K., Taka, T., Laakso, J., Osterholm, J.-E., J. Pol. Sci.: Part B: Pol. Phys. 33, 1289-1306 (1995). Characterization and Solid State Properties of N-Alkylated Polyanilines in the Neutral State, Zheng, W.-Y., Levon, K., Laakso, J., Osterholm, J.-E., Macromolecules, 27, 7754-7768 (1994). Miscibility Studies of Poly(3-Alkyl Thiophene)/Poly-(ethylene-co-vinylacetate) Blends with a Solvatochromatic Transition in Solid Phase, Levon, K., Chu, E., Ho, K.-S., Laakso, J., Kwei, T.K., Mao, J., Zheng, W.-Y., J. Pol. Sci., Part B: Pol. Phys., 33, 537-545 (1995). Self-Assembly of the Electro-Active Complexes of Polyaniline and Surfactants Zheng, W.-Y., Levon, K., Wang, R., Taka, T., Macromolecul. Chem. Phys., 196, 2443-2462 (1995) Electrically Conducting Thin Films of Aniline Derivatives, Punkka, E., Levon, K., Zheng, W.-Y., Laakso, J., Stubb, H., Thin Solid Films, 243, 515-520 (1994). Layered Structure with Side-Chain Crystallinity in Undoped Poly(3-alkylthiophenes, Ho, K.-S., Laakso, J., Levon, K., Mao, J., Taka, T., Zheng, W.-Y., Synthetic Metals 55-57, 384-387 (1993). Phase Behavior of Undoped Poly(3-Alkyl Thiophene) with Ethylene-co-Vinylacetates. A Solvatochromatic Transition in the Solid State, Levon, K., Ho, K.-S., Laakso, J., Mao, J., Zheng, W.-Y., Synthetic Metals 55-57, 3591-3596 (1993).

Milan Vaidya (Ph.D., 1994)
"Miscibility, Crystallization and Morphology of Poly(caprolactone), A Semicrystalline Polymer, with Poly(styrene-co-4-hydroxystyrene) Amorphous Polymers" Kinetics of Crystallization and Equilibrium Phase Separation Effects on Morphology in Blends of Semicrystalline Poly(caprolactone) and Poly(styrene-4-Hydroxystyrene) Copolymers, Vaidya, M.M., Levon, K., Pearce, E.M., Synthesis and Molecular Composites of Functionalized Polyisocyanates, Khatri, C.A., Vaidya, M.M., Levon, K., Jha, S.K., Green, M.M., Macromolecules, 28, 4719-4728 (1995). Miscibility of Poly(caprolactone), a Semicrystalline Polymer, with Amorphous Poly(styrene-4-hydroxystyrene) Copolymers, Vaidya, M.M., Levon, K., Pearce, E.M., J. Pol. Sci., Pol. Phys. , 33, 2093-2108 (1995)

Hwan K. Lee (Ph.D., 1992)
"Non-Equilibrium Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Crystallizable Polymer Solutions" Stratification of Fullerenes, Weng, D., Levon, K., Mao, J., Lee, H.K., Tour, J., Schrivens, W.A., Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 349, 127-132, 1994. Thermally Induced Phase Separation in Ternary Crystallizable Polymer Solutions, Vadalia, H, Lee, H.K., Myerson, A., Levon, K, J.Member.Sci., 89, 37-50 (1994). Structure Formation due to Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Crystallization in Polypropylene Solutions by Temperature-Jump Experiments, Lee, H.K., Myerson, A.S., Levon, K., " "Novel Trends with Polyolefins", Ed.T.C.Chuang, Plenum Press, NY, 209-223 (1993). Non-Equilibrium Liquid-liquid Phase Separations in Crystallizable Polymer Solutions, Lee, H.K., Myerson, A., Levon, K., Macromolecules, 25 (15), 4002-4010 (1992). Phase Equilibria and Phase Separation Dynamics in Semicrystalline Polymer Blends, Lee, H., Myerson, A., Levon, K., International Conference on Membranes, ICOM-90, Symp. Preprints, Chicago, XXX-XXX (1990).

 Antti Takala (M.Sc., 1995)
"Spinodal Decomposition in Electrically Conducting Polymer Blends" Päivi

Oinonen(M.Sc., 1995)
"Interdiffusion of an Electro-Active Hairy-Rod into a Flexible Matrix" Mika

Myllymäki (M.Sc., 1994)
"Miscibility in the Blends of Poly(3-octylthiophene)and Ethylene-co

Vinylacetates" Wung Lin Chen (M.Sc., 1994)
"Investigation on Percolation in Electrically Conducting Thermosets"

K.H. Kim (M.Sc., 1994)
"Conductivity of Polymer Blends of Polyaniline with Poly(4-vinylpyridine) and Poly(4-vinylphenol)"

2003 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

2002 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

1999 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

1983 - 99 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

1986 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

1985 - 86 Visiting Scientist, MIT Laser Research Center, George R. Harrision Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1978 - 83 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of New York.

1976 - 78 Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto.