Fall Semester 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/30/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jorg Werner | Boston University | Nanoconfined Fabrication in Polymer Systems for Energy and Sustainability Technologies |
| 09/06/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Daniel Kohane | Harvard Medical School | Developing Injectable Drug Delivery Systems for Prolonged Local Anesthesia |
| 09/13/2024 | 11:10 am | Science 1, Room 1002 | Mingjiang Zhong | Yale University | Diversifying Polymer Properties through Precision Microstructure Engineering |
| 09/27/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Thanh Nguyen | University of Connecticut | Smart Biodegradable Polymers at Nano and Micro-scales for Medical Application |
| 10/04/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Wei Fan | UMass Amherst |
TBA |
| 10/18/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Sunghee Lee | Iona College | Biomimetic Self-assembly: The Nanoliter Aqueous Microdroplet and Insights into Cell Membrane |
| 10/25/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | John Katsaras | Oak Ridge National Lab | TBA |
| 11/08/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | David A. Weitz, IMS Distinguished Lecture | Harvard University | Structuring New Materials with Droplet Microfluidics |
| 11/15/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Ken Carter | CT Agriculture Experiment Station | TBA |
| 11/25/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science1, Room 1002 | Atsushi Takahara | Kyushu University | Environmental Degradation |
Spring Semester 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | J. Carson Meredith | Georgia Institute of Technology | Towards Renewal and Recyclable Barrier Materials |
| 02/02/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Erin E. Stache | Princeton University | Light-to-Heat (Photothermal) Conversion Promotes High Activation Barrier Reactions |
| 02/16/2024 | 11:10 am | Science 1, Room 1002 | Stephen Cheng | University of Akron | Superlattice Engineering in Giant Molecules |
| 03/01/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jeremiah A. Johnson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | (De)Constructing Macromolecules |
| 03/22/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Kohzo Ito | University of Tokyo |
Slide-Ring Materials for Sustainable Polymers |
| 03/29/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Fred MacKintosh | Rice University | Mechanical Phase Transitions and Rheology of Fiber Networks |
| 04/05/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Oleg Gang | Columbia University | DNA-Programmable Assembly of Nanoscale Materials |
| 04/19/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Ben Hsiao | Stony Brook University | From Nanocellulose Technologies to New Circular Solutions for Agriculture |
| 04/26/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jason White | CT Agriculture Experiment Station | Nano-enabled Agriculture: A Path to Global Food Security in a Changing Climate |
Fall Semester 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/08/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jaime A. Gómez | Equitech, Distinguished Alumni | Unexpected Challenges in the Life of a Polymer Scientist |
| 09/15/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jessica Schiffman | UMass Amherst | Going Green to Improve Materials: From Biomedical Hydrogels to Water Separation Membranes |
| 10/06/2023 | 11:10 am | Science 1, Room 1002 | Zhibin Guan | University of California, Irvine | Bioinspired Design of Active and Dynamic Polymer Materials |
| 10/13/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Kenan Song | Arizona State University | Advanced Composite Processing for Defense, Energy, and Biomedical Applications |
| 11/17/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Katia Bertoldi | Harvard University |
Nonlinear Inflatable Matter: From Soft Robots to Reconfigurable Structures |
Spring Semester 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/20/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Richard Gross | Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute | Expanding the Role of Enzyme-Catalysis in Macromolecular Synthesis |
| 01/27/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Jahyun Koo | Korea University | Biodegradable Polyurethane and Polyanhydride Polymers for Transient Electronics |
| 02/03/2023 | 11:10 am | Science 1, Room 1002 | Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio | Yale University | Shape-Shifting Soft Robots That Adapt to Changing Tasks and Environments |
| 02/17/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Vahid Morovati | University of Connecticut | Micromechanical Platform to Study Nonlinear Behavior of Elastomeric Materials |
| 02/24/2024 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Nathan Oldenhuis | UNH |
Synthesizing Materials Found in Nature |
| 03/03/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Marc Hillmyer | University of Minnesota | Functional Poly(cyclooctenes) with Applications at the Intersection of Sustainability and Polymer Science |
| 03/10/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Chul Park | University of Toronto | |
| 03/24/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Frieder Jaekle | Rutgers University | B-N Lewis Pairs as Versatile Motifs in Polymeric Materials |
| 04/07/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Ruike Renee Zhao | Stanford University | Multifunctional Origami Robots |
| 04/28/2023 | 11:10 a.m. | Science 1, Room 1002 | Michael Bortner | Virginia Tech | Rheological Considerations for Materials and Process Design in Polymer Extrusion Additive Manufacturing |
Fall Semester 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/16/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Shi-Qing Wang | University of Akron | Polymer Physics and Engineering: Flow, Bounce and Break – the whole nine yards |
| 09/23/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Mukerrem Cakmak | Carnegie Mellon University | Relationship Between Nanoscale Structure and Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Solutions |
| 09/30/2022 | 11:10 am | Gant North, Room 020 | Carmel Majidi | University of Massachusetts | Polymer-Assisted Rapid Thermal Annealing: A New Venue to Functionalize and Template Hard Materials |
| 10/14/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Yeongseon Jang | University of Southern California | Machine Learning for Materials and Processes |
| 11/04/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Tao Xie | University of Houston |
Polymer Sustainability: Renewable Origins and Enhanced End-of-Life Management |
| 11/11/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Yue Zhao | University of Texas | Synthesis and Applications of Polyethers to Membranes for Gas and Water Separations, and as Non-Colligative Anti-freezes for Cryopreservation |
| 12/02/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Emily Pentzer | California Institute of Technology | Irregular Architected Materials With Programmable Properties |
| 12/09/2022 | 11:10 a.m. | Gant North, Room 020 | Stephanie Lacour | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Soft Neural Interfaces for Discovery and Translational Research |
Spring Semester 2022
All seminars are held via Webex unless otherwise noted. For more information, please contact Osker Dahabsu.
Fall Semester 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Ximin He | University of California Los Angeles | Bio-like Structural Hydrogels with Life-like Intelligence |
| 9/24/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Kaushik Bhattacharya | California Institute of Technology | Liquid Crystal Elastomers |
| 10/08/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Julian Zhu | University of Montreal | Polymeric Biomaterials Made with Green Chemistry Approaches |
| 10/15/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Shengqiang Cai | University of California San Diego | Soft Materials: From Fundamental Mechanics to Applications |
| 10/22/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Jonathon Rivnay | Northwestern University | Polymer Based Mixed Conductors for Applications in Bioelectronics |
| 11/04/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Brian Benicewicz | University of South Carolina | Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles as Novel Gas Separation Membranes and PBI Polymers for Fuel Cells |
| 12/03/2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Chenfeng Ke | Dartmouth College | Supramolecular 3D Printing Polymers and Elastic Crystals |
Fall Semester 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/30/2020 | 4:30 p.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Dr. Xueju “Sophie” Wang | UConn Materials Science & Engineering | Multifunctional 3D Structures in Smart Polymers and Their Heterogenous Integration With Other Functional Materials: From Assembly to Applications |
| 10/7/2020 | 4:30 p.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Dr. Yi Zhang | UConn Biomedical Engineering | Soft Bioelectronics and Microfluidic Systems for Advanced Healthcare |
| 12/9/2020 | 4:30 p.m. | Via Webex – Click for Link | Ian Martin | UConn Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate | TBA |
Spring Semester 2020
Spring Semester 2020 seminars cancelled due to COVID 19.
Fall Semester 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/6/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Jaime Gomez | Society of Plastics Engineers | Plastic or Planet – Everyone’s Responsibility |
| 9/27/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Marcus Weck | New York University | Directed Self-assembly and Crystallization of Polymeric Colloids |
| 10/11/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Jing Fan | City College of New York | Microfluidic Development and Applications of Functional Polymeric Micro-materials |
| 10/18/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Hsi-Wo Wong | UMass, Lowell | Manipulation of Product Distributions in Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Using Molten Polymers |
| 10/21/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Ica Manis-Zloczower | Case Western Reserve University | Designing TPU/Carbon Nanofiller Nanocomposites with Targeted Properties: A Roadmap for Filler Selection |
Spring Semester 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/08/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Robert Wood | Harvard University | The Mechanical Side of Artificial Intelligence |
| 2/15/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Ayse Asatekin | Tufts University | Next generation membranes through polymer self-assembly |
| 3/08/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Svetlana Sukhishvili | Texas A&M University | Hydrogen-Bonding Polymers in Water and Mixed/Hydrated Salt Solvents: From Drug Delivery to Thermal Energy Storage |
| 3/11/2019 | 11:00 a.m. (Monday) | IMS 20 | Atsushi Takahara | Kyushu University | Synchrotron X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy Applied to Soft Matter |
| 3/15/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Steve Lustig | Northeastern University | Viscoelasticity with Twist-Tie Knots in Liquid Crystalline Polymer |
| 4/19/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Osman Basaran | Purdue University | Instability and explosion of electrified drops: EHD tip and equatorial streaming |
| 4/26/2019 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Satish Kumar | Georgia Institute of Technology | Carbon and Multifunctional Fibers, and Nanocomposites |
| 5/30/2019 | 11:10 a.m. | IMS 20 | Ja-Hyoung Ryu | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | Supramolecular Approach for New Targeted Cancer Therapy: from Assembly to Nanomedicine |
| 7/22/2019 | 11:10 a.m. | IMS 20 | Jean-Marie Raquez | University of Mons, Belgium | New approaches for intrinsic self-healing polyurethanes and related composites under mild conditions |
Fall Semester 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/31/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Xiaopeng Li | University of South Florida | Self-Assembly of Multi-Layered Metallo-Supramolecules with Increasing Complexity |
| 9/26/2018 | 2:30 p.m. (Wednesday) | CHEM A-203 | Brent Sumerlin | University of Florida | Exploiting Light to Push the Limits of Controlled Radical Polymerization and Macromolecular Metamorphosis” |
| 9/28/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Thomas Russell | UMass Amherst | 3D Printing of Adaptive, Structured Liquids |
| 10/11/2018 | 3:30 p.m. (Thursday) | IMS 20 | Jintao Zhu Zhong-An Li Yonggui Liao |
UConn | Chemistry / Polymer Symposium |
| 10/12/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Robert McFarlane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Systems-level Control of Structural Hierarchy in Nanocomposites |
| 11/02/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | CHEM A-203 | Qiaobing Xu | Tufts University | Engineering Nanoparticles for Intracellular Delivery of Proteins for Cancer Therapy and Genome Editing |
| 11/09/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Zachary Smith | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Molecular Design of Materials for Membrane-based Separations |
| 11/16/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Jessica Schiffman | UMass Amherst | Engineering Bioinspired Materials for Human Health Applications |
Spring Semester 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/26/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Hyunmin Yi | Tufts University | Integrated Fabrication-Conjugation Approaches for Biopolymeric-Synthetic Hybrid Hydrogel Microparticles with Improved Protein Conjugation |
| 2/9/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Igor Medintz | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | Enhancing Enzymatic Activity with Nanoparticle Scaffolds – Towards Cell Free Biocatalysis |
| 3/2/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Lin Yang | Brookhaven National Laboratory | The Life Science X-ray Scattering (LiX) Beamline at NSLS-II |
| 3/30/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | David Weitz | Harvard University | TBD |
| 4/13/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Lih-Sheng Turng | Wisconsin University | From Polymer Processing to Fabrication of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds |
| 4/19/2018 | 4:00 p.m. | CHEM A-203 | Yoan Simon | South Mississippi University (joint seminar with Chemistry Department) |
Artificially Intelligent Polymers |
| 4/20/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Sangwoo Lee | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Thermodynamics and Structures of Polymer Mixtures |
| 4/27/2018 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Trisha Andrews | UMass Amherst | Melding Vapor Phase Organic Chemistry and Textile Manufacturing to Produce Wearable Electronics |
Fall Semester 2017
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/22/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Hung-Jue Sue | Texas A&M University | Nanoparticle-assisted Dispersion of Dissimilar Nanoparticles in Epoxy |
| 10/13/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Marilyn Minus | Northeastern University | Forming ‘Blends’ between Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes |
| 10/20/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Bryan Vogt | University of Akron | Structure Evolution of Supramolecular Hydrogels under Stress |
| 10/27/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Timothy Swager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Triptycene: A Special Building Block for Functional Polymers |
| 11/10/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Chaitanya Ullal | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Imaging and Writing 3D Polymer Nanostructures with Visible Light |
| 11/17/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Todd Emrick | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Building from Functional Polymer Materials: Interfaces, Assembly, and Therapeutics |
| 12/1/2017 | 11:00 a.m. | IMS 20 | Ying Li, | University of Connecticut | Design of Smart Drug Delivery Platform Guided by Multiscale Computational Modeling |
Spring Semester 2017
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/3/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | David Kaplan | Tufts University | Silk Biomaterials and 3D Tissue Systems |
| 2/17/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Daniel A. Heller | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Weill Cornell Medical College | Carbon Nanomaterials for Quantitative Biology and Medicine |
| 2/24/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Kevin Yager | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Non-equilibrium Morphologies Using Block-copolymer Self-assembly |
| 3/3/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Maria Santore | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Biological Mechanisms at Responsive Material Surfaces |
| 3/24/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Samuel W. Thomas III | Tufts University | Photorespinsive Layer-by-Layer Films |
| 3/31/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Jie He | UConn | Harnessing Synergies at the Interface of Polymers and Inorganic Nanomaterials |
| 4/7/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Khalid Askar | Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi | High Performance Multifunctional, Halloysite-Containing Coatings for Desert Based Solar Cells |
| 4/21/2017 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Warren Chan (A Joint Seminar w/ Mechanical Engineering Dept.) |
University of Toronto | Complexities of Nanoparticle Tumor Targeting |
Fall Semester 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
| 9/9/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Matthew Kiesewetter | University of Rhode Island | The Power of Mechanism in Rate Enhanced Organocatalytic Polymerization |
| 9/30/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Sadhan Jana | University of Akron | Changing Landscape in Polymer Research: Challenges and Opportunities |
| 10/7/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Bruno Ameduri | University of Montpellier, France | Challenges and Issues of Fluoropolymers |
| 10/14/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Nicolay Tsarevsky | Southern Methodist University | Dynamic and Redox-Responsive Branched Polymers |
| 10/28/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Vladimir Torchilin | Northeastern University | Stimuli-sensitive Combination Nanopreparations of siRNA and Chemotherapeutic Drugs to Treat Multidrug resistant Cancers |
| 11/4/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Gregory Grason | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Block Copolymers beneath the Surface: Intra-domain Textures and Mesochiral Morphologies |
| 11/11/2016 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Alfred Crosby | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Physics of Polymer Fracture: Thin Films and Soft Gels |
Spring Semester 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
| 1/29/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Prof. Jeffrey McCutcheon | UConn | Polymeric Materials Enabling Forward Osmosis for Water Treatment, Desalination and Reuse |
| 2/19/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Prof. M. Muthukumar | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Ordinary-Extraordinary Transition in Dynamics of Solutions of Charged Molecules |
| 2/26/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Dr. Bruce Shapiro | National Cancer Institute | Understanding RNA Structure and Function: Prediction, Analysis and Nanodesign |
| 3/4/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Prof. Rodney Priestley | Princeton University | Confined Glassy Properties and Constrained Volume Processing of Polymer Nanoparticles |
| 3/11/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Prof. Shu Yang | University of Pennsylvania | Foldable, Responsive Soft Metamaterials from Microstructured Polymers |
| 3/25/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Dr. Burtrand Lee | American Chemical Society | Crystallography of Functional Nanomaterials and Preparation of Competitive Grant Proposal |
| 4/8/2016 | 11:10am | IMS 20 | Prof. Joseph Thrasher | Clemson University | New Facility for and Advances in Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE)-Based Fluoropolymers |
| 4/15/2016 | 11:10am | IMS-20 | Prof. Bryan Coughlin | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Robust and Dynamic Polymer Membranes for Anion Transport |
| 4/22/2016 | 11:10am | IMS-20 | Prof. Padma Rajagopalan | Virginia Tech | Engineering the 3D Liver Microenvironment |
Fall Semester 2015
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
| 8/21/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Zhen-Gang Wang | California Institute of Technology | Self-Energy Effects of Salt Ions on Phase Behavior and Interfacial Properties |
| 9/11/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Michael Carpenter | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | Plasmonics Enabled Chemical Sensors with Thermal Energy Harvesting Attributes |
| 9/25/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Dr. John Katsaras | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nanoscopic Lipid Domains in Model and Living Bacterial Membranes |
| 10/2/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Christopher Li | Drexel University | Controlling Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes |
| 10/23/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Darrell Irvine | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Engineering Immunity Using Synthetic Materials |
| 10/30/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Xuanhe Zhao | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Soft Materials: Unconventional Networks Give Unprecedented Properties |
| 11/6/2015 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Margarita Herrera-Alonso | Johns Hopkins University | Molecular and Process Determinants of Solution-based Polymer Self-Assemblies |
| 11/13/2015 | 11:00am | IMS-20 | Dr. Pamela Wilson | AkzoNobel | AkzoNobel Coil & Extrusion Coatings: Polymers for Aesthetics and Durability |
| 11/30/15 | 11:00am | IMS-20 | Prof. Michael E. Hagerman | Union College | Laponite/polyaniline Nanocomposites for Clean Energy Applications |
Spring Semester 2015
Fall Semester 2014
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
| 09/09/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. James Watkins | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Electronic and Optical Devices via Additive Driven Self-Assembly and Nanoimprint Lithography: Towards Solution-Based Roll-to-Roll Nanomanufacturing |
| 09/12/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Jeffrey Pyun | Arizona State University | Polymerizing Goblins and Brimstone: Materials for Sustainability, Energy and Defense |
| 09/15/2014 | 11:15am | Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center | MSE Distinguished Lecturer Matthias Scheffler, Professor and Director, Theory Department | Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society Berlin, Germany | Big Data of Materials Science from First Principles – Critical Next Steps |
| 09/19/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. William Brittain | Texas State University, San Marcos | Photoisomerization Mechanisms of Chromophores Ubiquitous in Materials Science |
| 09/26/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. A.T. Charlie Johnson | University of Pennsylvania | Graphene-Enabled Bio-Nano Hybrids for Chemical Detection |
| 10/03/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Dr. Donald Wardius | Bayer Material Science Lab | Thinking Through the Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities for Polyurethanes at Bayer MaterialScience |
| 10/17/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Jeffrey Morris | City College of New York | Frictional Interactions in Viscous Suspensions: Abrupt Shear Thickening and the Flow-induced Jamming Transition |
| 10/31/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Joey L. Mead | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Nanomanufacturing with Polymers |
| 11/14/14 | 9:00am | IMS-20 | Michele Marcolongo, Professor and Department Head Materials Science and Engineering |
Drexel University | Acellular Tissue Regenerations Using Biomimetic Proteoglycans |
| 11/14/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Dr. Masaya Kotaki | Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc. | Polymer Nanofibers: Electrospinning, Structure, and Properties |
| 12/05/2014 | 11:00am | IMS 20 | Prof. Erik Berda | University of New Hampshire | Single-chain Nanoparticles: Synthesis of Nano-scale Architectures by Manipulating Discrete Macromolecules |
Spring Semester 2014
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Organization | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/31/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Prof. Dennis Discher | University of Pennsylvania | “Polymer Approaches to Basic Questions in Biology” |
| 2/14/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Dr. Omid Farokhzad (CANCELED: to be rescheduled) |
Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital | “Targeted Polymeric Nanoparticles: From Discovery to Clinical Trials” |
| 2/21/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Dr. Eric Forsythe | Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD | “Flexible Electronics Development for the US Army, Past and Future” |
| 2/28/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Prof. Lorna J. Gibson | MIT | “The Hierarchical Structure and Mechanics of Plants” |
| 3/14/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Dr. Johannes M. Soulages | ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company | “Long Chain Branching Characterization by Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Rheology” |
| 3/28/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Prof. Sanjeeva Murthy | Rutgers University | “Structure at the Surface and in the Bulk in Biomaterials: Studies of Protein Adsorption and Hydration” |
| 4/04/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Prof. Angel Garcia | RPI | “Molecular Simulations of the Folding Unfolding Equilibrium of Biomolecules” |
| 4/18/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Prof. Petia Vlahovska | Brown University | “Electromechanics of Biomimetic Bilayer Membranes” |
| 4/25/2014 | 1:30pm | IMS 20 | Dr. Andrei Dukhin | Dispersion Technology, Inc. | “Characterization of Concentrated Nano- and Micro-Particulates Using Ultrasound” |
Fall Semester 2013
“Materials Morphogenesis”
Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University
Friday, September 13, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Self-Assembly: Evolution from Surfactants, Block Copolymers, Biomedical Conjugates to Nanoparticles”
Dr. Ramanathan Nagarajan, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development & Engineering Center
Friday, September 20, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Interfacial Curvature Effects in Polypeptide-based Block Copolymer Assemblies”
Prof. Daniel Savin, University of Southern Mississippi
Friday, September 27, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Radiation Shielding Materials and the Space Environment”
Dr. Laurence Thomsen, NASA Langley Research Center
Friday, October 11, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Targeted Polymeric Nanoparticles: From Discovery to Clinical Trials”
Dr. Omid Farokhzad, Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Friday, November 1, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“How the Properties of Cells Derive from the Polymeric Nature of the Proteins in Their Proteomest”
Prof. Kenneth A. Dill, SUNY Stony Brook
Friday, November 15, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Stressing Lipid Membranes: Effects of Polymers on Membrane Structural Integrity”
Prof. Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
Friday, November 22, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
Spring Semester 2013
“Nanomaterials from the Self-Assembly of Globular Proteins”
Prof. Bradley D. Olsen, MIT
Friday, February 1, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Polymer-based Materials Research at the DoE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences”
Dr. P. Thiyagarajan, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Friday, March 1, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Graphene Polymer Nanocomposites”
Prof. Christopher W. Macosko, University of Minnesota
Friday, March 8, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Complex Polymer Systems: from Thin Films to RNA”
Prof. Robert M. Briber, University of Maryland
Friday, March 15, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Carbon nanotube and Graphene: from Fluid Phases to Multifunctional Materials”
Prof. Matteo Pasquali, Rice University
Friday, March 29, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Nanofluidics-Wetting and Spreading Phenomena”
Prof. Darsh Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology
Friday, April 5, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Polymer Challenges at a Medical Device Company”
Dr. Peter G. Edelman, Boston Scientific
Friday, April 19, 2013, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
Fall Semester 2012
“Funtional Hybrid Nanomaterials from Polymers”
Prof. Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University
Friday, September 7, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Characterizing the Viscoelasticity and Friction of Contact Lenses Immersed in Fluid”
Prof. Charles Lusignan, Bausch + Lomb
Friday, September 21, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Nanofluidics-Wetting and Spreading Phenomena”
Prof. Darsh Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology
CANCELED: to be rescheduled Friday, September 28, 2012, 1:15 PM, IMS Room 20
“Simulations of Stretching a Strong, Flexible Polyelectrolyte”
Dr. Mark Stevens, Sandia National Laboratories
Friday, October 5, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Theranostic and Radiotherapeutic Cancer Nanomedicines”
Prof. Xiuling Lu, University of Connecticut
Friday, October 12, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Using Interfacial Manipulations to Generate Functional Materials from Nanostructured Polymers”
Prof. Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
Friday, October 19, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Ion Transport through Polymer Matrices: New Insights into the Design of Polymer Films as Ion Transporting Membranes
for R enewable Energy Applications”
Prof. Sergio Granados-Focil, Clark University
Friday, October 26, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Tailoring Polymer Structures for Adhesives and Sealants”
Dr. John Woods, Henkel Corporation
Friday, November 9, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Kinetics of Carbon Nanotube Growth via in-situ Raman Spectroscopy”
Dr. Benji Maruyama, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB
Friday, November 30, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
Spring Semester 2012
“Will We Ever Drive Fuel Cell Cars?”
Prof. Yossef Elabd, Drexel University
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Highly Permeable Nanofibrous Membranes for Water Purification”
Prof. Benjamin Hsiao, SUNY Stony Brook
Friday, February 3, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Crystallizable Block Copolymers: Directing Crystallization via Polymer Architecture”
Prof. Richard Register, Princeton University
Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Rheology of Physical Gelation”
Dr. H. Henning Winter, National Science Foundation & UMass Amherst
Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“A Novel Membrane/Core Type Nanoparticle for Drug/Gene Delivery”
Prof. Leaf Huang, UNC Chapel Hill
Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Material-based Feedback Control of Cell Adhesion”
Prof. Harry Bermudez, UMass Amherst
Friday, April 13, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“The Influence of Irreversible Aggregates on the Rheology of Monoclonal Antibody Solutions””
Dr. Jai Pathak, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD
Friday, April 20, 2012, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Guiding Crystallization around Bends and Corners: Probing Inter- and Intrasperulite Charge Transport in Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors”
Prof. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University
Friday, April 27, 2012, 2:00 PM, Physics Room P-38
Fall Semester 2011
“Nanoscale Systems Assembled with DNA: From Principles to Materials”
Dr. Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Friday, September 16, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Hot Melt Extrusion – A Novel Method for Drug Manufacturing”
Prof. Peng Wang, University of Rhode Island
Friday, September23, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“New Directions in Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers and Polymer Nanocomposites”
Prof. Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
Friday, October 7, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“From Imperfection to Perfection in Soft Matter Self-Assembly”
Prof. Mahesh Mahanthappa, University of Wisconsin
Friday, October 21, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Dynamic s of Hydrophobically Modified Hydrogels”
Prof. Robert Weiss, University of Akron
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Coiled coils – More than an Oligomerzation Motif”
Prof. Joerg Stetefield, University of Manitoba, Canada
Friday, November 4, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Polymers and Ionic Liquids, Four Short Stories: Solutions, Gels, Proteins, and Imaging”
Prof. David Hoagland, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Friday, November 11, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20
“Multicompartment/Multicomponent Micelles with Block Copolymer Blending through Kinetic Control of Solution Assembly”
Prof. Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware
Friday, November 18, 2011, 1:30 PM, IMS Room 20