Mark F. Roll, Ph.D., P.E.

• Engineering Sustainability 
• Microelectronics Packaging 
• Polymers and Composites 

Mark Roll came to the University of Idaho in 2011 to focus on the area of soft materials, including polymers, composites, organic/inorganic hybrid materials and biologically relevant materials particularly for thin-film applications in the area of energy and photolithography. The nano-structure of these materials and their resulting properties are of special interest.

• 2023 - present — Clinical Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• 2021 - 2023 — Director of Materials Science & Engineering Program
• 2017 - 2023 — Associate Professor in Materials Science & Engineering
• 2015 - present — Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Idaho
• 2011 - 2017 — Assistant Professor in Materials Science & Engineering
• 2010 - 2011— National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers Division

• University of Idaho Alumni Award for Excellence, 2013
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009
• University of Michigan Rackham Regents Fellowship, 2002
• National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, 2002

Publications (Peer Reviewed):

1. Hill, C.J., McDonald, A.G., Mark F. Roll. Dienes and Diamondoids: Poly(2-(1-admantyl)-1,3- butadiene) and random copolymers with isoprene via redox-emulsion polymerization and their hydrogenation. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 138, 50711.
2. Mark F. Roll. "Generalizing Thermal Resistance and a General Heat Engine” American Journal of Physics, 88 (10), 819-824 (2020).
3. Mark F. Roll. “Ionic Borohydride Clusters for the Next Generation of Boron Thin-Films: Nano-Building Blocks for Electrochemical and Refractory Materials.” Journal of Materials Research, 31 (18), 2736–2748 (2016). doi: 10.1557/jmr.2016.261.
4. Fischer, J.; Stampka, T.; Mark F. Roll. “A Direct Synthesis of the Styrylimido Derivative of the Hexamolybdate Dianion.” Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 23, 813-815 (2015).
5. Michaela R Petersen; An Chen; Mark Roll; S J Jung; Mostafa Yossef. “Mechanical Properties of Fire-Retardant Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Materials with Alumina Tri-Hydrate Filler.” Composites Part B, 78, 109-121 (2015).
6. Mark F. Roll, Kampf, J.W.; Laine, R.M. “Halogen Bonding Motifs in Polyhedral Phenylsilsesquioxanes: Effects of Systematic Variations in Geometry or Substitution.” Crystal Growth and Design, 11, 4360-7 (2011).
7. Mark F. Roll, Kampf, J.W.; Laine, R.M. “Crystalline Polyphenylene Macromolecular Clusters From Octaalkynylsilsesquioxanes, their Crystal Structures and a Potential Route to 3-D Graphenes.” Macromolecules 44, 3425-35 (2011).
8. Mark F. Roll, Kim, Y.; Yi, E.; Kampf, J.W.; Laine, R.M. “Nano Building Blocks via Iodination of [PhSiO1.5]n, Forming [p-I-C6H4SiO1.5]n (n = 8, 10, 12), and a New Route to High-Surface-Area, Thermally Stable, Microporous Materials via Thermal Elimination of I2.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 10171–83 (2010).
9. Mark F. Roll, Asuncion, M.Z.; Kampf, J.W.; Laine, R.M.. “Para-Octaiodophenylsilsesquioxane [p-IC6H4SiO1.5]8, A Nearly Perfect Nano-Building Block” ACS Nano 2008, 2, 320-326.