Past Seminars
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Angela Pitenis University of California, Santa Parbara | “Friction of Fragile Interfaces” | September 24, 2025 |
Emanuela Del Gado Georgetown University | "The Role of Architecture in Rheology, Plasticity, and Toughness of Double Network Gels" | November 5, 2025 |
| Qian Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | “Electron Videography and Its Automation for Colloidal and Energy Materials” | November 12, 2025 |
| Jessica Lamb University of Minnesota | “Synthesis and Dipole Effects of Polymers Containing Polar Heterocycles” | November 19, 2025 |
Liheng Cai University of Virginia | "Bottlebrush Polymers, Networks, Biomaterials and Tissue Mimics" | December 3, 2025 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Croll North Dakota State University | “The Adhesion of Ice to Polydimethylsiloxane Elastomers and Coatings” | January 28, 2026 |
| Daniel Preston Rice University | "Mitigating Chemical and Thermal Failures of Engineered Wettability Surfaces" | February 4, 2026 |
Damien Guironnet University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | “Establishing the Precision of Polymerization Methods to Achieve Enhanced Functions” | March 4, 2026 |
Chuanbing Tang University of South Carolina | “Toward More Sustainable Macromolecules: From Polyethylene Mimics to Antimicrobial Polypeptides” | March 18, 2026 |
| Jeff Foster Oak Ridge National Laboratory | "Building the Labs of the Future: Putting Automation and AI to work in Chemistry" | April 1, 2026 |
| Eileen Seo Arizona State University | "Designing Adaptive Materials at the Interface of Nanotechnology and Polymer Science" | April 8, 2026 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Hayward University of Colorado Boulder | “Design and Characterization of single ion conducting elastomeric networks for ionic diodes electro-mechancial transducers, and low-voltage electroadhesives” | September 11, 2024 |
| Vamsi Yadavalli Virginia Commonwealth University and Program Manager at the National Science Foundation | "Silk biomaterials for the fabrication of functional biodevices" | September 25, 2024 |
| Laure Kayser University of Delaware | “Controlled Polymerization Applied to Organic Bioelectronics” | October 2, 2024 |
| Arthi Jayaraman University of Delaware | “Machine Learning Based Computational Methods to Analyze Structural Characterization Data from Soft Materials” | October 9, 2024 |
Christian Pester University Of Delaware | "Advanced Funcational Polymer Brushes: From Self-Healing Coatings to Photocatalysis" | November 6, 2024 |
| Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University | " Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables" | December 11, 2024 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Bates University of California | “Scalable Design of Sustainable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives” | February 5, 2025 |
Zhe Qiang University of Southern Mississippi | "Polyolefin Innovations for Clean Air and Water" | February 19, 2025 |
| Ben Elling Wesleyan | “Strategies for Increasing Ring Strain for New ROMP Monomers” | April 16, 2025 |
| Thomas Wilson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | “Achieving Elegant Solutions to Applied Problems using Basic Polymer Rheology/Structure/Property Principles” | April 23, 2025 |
Todd Emrick UMass Amherst | "Synthetic Functional Polymers Designed for Interfacial Science and Advanced Materials" | April 30, 2025 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Pentzer Texas A&M | "Polymerizations in Emulsions to Prepare Composites for Energy Management" | September 13, 2023 |
| Dhriti Nepal AFRL | "Vitrimers and Vitrimer Nanocomposites: Thermomechanical and Self-Healing Properties" | September 20, 2023 |
| Jarrett Rowlett INEOS Styrolution | "Sustainability, Recycling, and Circularity - Styrenics & INEOS Styrolution" | October 18, 2023 |
| Michelle Seitz Department of Energy | “Morphological Origins of the Funny Failure Behavior of Thermoplastic Elastomers” | November 1, 2023 |
| Jacqueline Thomas Procter & Gamble | "From Raw Materials to Consumer Goods Products -- Highlights of Soft Materials Research Leveraging NMR" | November 8, 2023 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Jiangtao Cheng VT MII | “Phase Change-Induced Liquid Droplet Actuations on Structured Surfaces - Applications in Colloidal Manipulations and Additive Manufacturing” | January 24, 2024 |
| Bob Lambeth Army Research Office | "ARO Polymer Chemistry Program Overview" | January 31, 2024 |
| Eleftheria Roumeli University of Washington | “Towards Sustainable Materials from Biological Matter: Leveraging Macromolecular Composition, Bonding Motifs and Hierarchical Structure to Tailor Mechanical Performance” | February 7, 2024 |
| Tien Duong Department of Energy | “Lithium-ion Battery Technologies for Vehicle Applications” | February 28, 2024 |
| Rachel Letteri UVA | "Leveraging Stereochemistry-Directed Assembly to Engineer Tissue-Mimetic Materials" | April 10, 2024 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Jia Niu Boston College | "Polymer Chemistry Inspired Approaches to Polysaccharides and Glycomimetics for Material and Biological Discoveries" | September 7, 2022 |
| Nicholas Rorrer NREL | "Towards a Better Steel Replacement: Biomass Enabled Performance Advantages for Thermoset Applications" | September 14, 2022 |
| Soledad Peresin Auburn University | "Creating new market opportunities from biomass. An overview of nanocellulose and surface science research at Auburn University" | September 28, 2022 |
| Sheldon Shi University of North Texas | “Functional biocomposites from nanoparticle impregnation of natural fiber” | October 5, 2022 |
| Lisa Hall Ohio State University | "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes" | October 12, 2022 |
| Jennifer Russell VT Sustainable Biomaterials | “Sustainable Future Plastics through Material and Systems Innovation” | October 19, 2022 |
| Allan Guymon University of Iowa | “Controlled Micro- and Nanostructure through Photopolymerization” | November 9, 2022 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Lou Madsen VT MII | “Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Incorporating a Rigid and Charged Double Helical Polyamide” | February 1, 2023 |
| John Brantley UT-Knoxville | "Exploring New Platforms and Methods for Soft Polymer Editing" | March 22, 2023 |
| Jay Park UMASS-Lowell | “Engineering Polymer Physics and Processing for Advanced Materials – Fibers and 3d Printing” | April 5, 2023 |
| Giles Dillingham Brighton Science | “Adhesion science: Searching for quantitative relationships between surfacefunctional group concentration, surface energy, and adhesion” | April 19, 2023 |
| Paula Diaconescu UCLA | “Redox switchable polymerization” | April 26, 2023 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
Edwin Chan | "Impulsive Deformation and Puncture of Soft Materials" | September 8, 2021 |
| Christoph Schick University of Rostock, Germany | "Polymer crystallization and nucleation: New insights from fast scanning calorimetry" | September 15, 2021 |
Stefan Mecking | "Catalytic Routes to Main-Chain Functionalized Polyolefins from Plant Oils for Closed Loop Recycling and Degradability" | September 29, 2021 |
| Michael Schulz VT MII | "Interactive Materials for Environmental and Biological Applications" | October 27, 2021 |
| Frank Leibfarth University of North Carolina | "Modern Approaches to Functional and Sustainable Thermoplastics" | November 3, 2021 |
| Blake Johnson VT MII | "High-throughput Characterization of Hydrogel Rheological Properties and Sol-Gel Phase Transitions" | November 10, 2021 |
| LaShanda Korley University of Delaware | "Bio-inspired and Sustainable Design: Towards Functional Materials" | December 1, 2021 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Pengfei Cao Oak Ridge National Laboratory | "Surpass the Modulus- Extensibility Trade-off of Elastomers: Go Beyond the State-of-Art" | January 26, 2022 |
| Junpeng Wang University of Akron | "Olefin Metathesis–Based Chemically Recyclable Polymers: From Monomer Design to Material Properties" | February 16, 2022 |
| Maryam Shakiba VT MII | "Physics, chemistry, and mechanics-based modeling of plastics degradations" | February 23, 2022 |
| Xianming Dai University of Texas at Dallas | "Macromolecules Enabled Durable Surfaces for Water and Energy Sustainability" | March 30, 2022 |
| Linda Hsieh-Wilson California Institute of Technology | “Using Chemistry to Unlock the Sulfation Code and Biology of Glycosaminoglycan Polysaccharides” | April 13, 2022 |
| Pinar Akcora Stevens Institute of Technology | "Adaptive Polymer Nanocomposites by Interfacial Design: Chemical and Dynamic Heterogeneities in Interfacial Layers" | April 27, 2022 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Bruno Ameduri | "Challenges and Issues of Fluoropolymers " | September 3, 2020 |
| Dr. Stefanie Feih Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Senior Scientist III | "Advanced Lightweighting Solutions: Synergy of CFRP and 3D-Printed and Metallic Structures" | September 10, 2020 |
Prof. Chad Ulven | "Sustainability and Durability of Natural Fiber Composites" | September 24, 2020 |
| Prof. Enrique Gomez Penn State University Professor, Chemical Engineering | "Pushing the limits of electron microscopy of polymers" | October 8, 2020 |
| Dr. Ellen C. Lee Ford Motor Company Technical Leader, Additive Manufacturing | "Driving Towards Scaled Production with Additive Manufacturing" | October 29, 2020 |
| Prof. Anthony Ryan University of Sheffield Professor, Physical Chemistry | "Making Science Work for Refugees and Refugees Work for Science" | November 19, 2020 |
| Prof. Stefanie Sydlik Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor, Chemistry | "Polymers and functional graphenic materials as stem cell instructive scaffolds for bone regeneration" | December 3, 2020 |
SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE | DATE |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Guihua Yu | "Multifunctional Hydrogels for Sustainable Energy and Environment" | January 27, 2021 |
| Prof. Susannah Scott University of California, Santa Barbara | "Catalytic conversion of polyethylene to long-chain alkylaromatics" | February 3, 2021 |
Dr. Tanja Weil | "Supramolecular nanostructures to control material-cell interactions" | February 17, 2021 |
| Prof. Leila Deravi Northeastern University | "Protein-integrated Electronics: From Molecules to Machines" | February 24, 2021 |
| Prof. Mesfin Tsige University of Akron | "Morphology and Dynamics of Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces" | March 24, 2021 |
| Emiliano Bedini University of Naples, Italy | "Regioselectively sulfated polysaccharides" | March 31, 2021 |
| Prof. Seth Cohen University of California, San Diego | "MOF-Polymer Hybrids - At the Interface of New Materials" | April 21, 2021 |
| Prof. Maurizio Porfiri New York University | "Modeling ionic polymer metal composites: where we are and where we should be" | April 28, 2021 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Ximin He | "Bioinspired Adaptive Materials based on Smart Hydrogels: Sensing, Solar Harvesting, and Soft Robotics" | September 4, 2019 |
| Prof. Nick Stephanopoulos Arizona State University Assistant Professor, School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics | "Hybrid Self-Assembled Nanomaterials from Proteins, Peptides, and DNA" | September 11, 2019 |
Prof. Jacinta Conrad | "Transport of Nanoparticles through Complex, Crowded Fluids" | September 18, 2019 |
| Prof. Rebekka Klausen Johns Hopkins University Associate Professor, Chemistry | "Building Block Strategies to Functional Polymers" | September 25, 2019 |
| Prof. Michael Bartlett Iowa State University Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering | "Multifunctional Soft Materials for Electronics and Adhesives" | October 2, 2019 |
| Prof. An-Chang Shi McMaster University Professor, Physics and Astronomy | "Non-Classical Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers" | October 9, 2019 |
| Prof. Stuart Rowan University of Chicago Barry L. MacLean Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise | "Design and Synthesis of Adaptive Polymeric Materials" | October 30, 2019 |
| Prof. Michael Bortner Virginia Tech Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering | "Additive Manufacturing of Moisture Responsive Cellulose Nanocrystal Polymer Composites" | December 4, 2019 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Brett Compton | "Understanding Print Stability in Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing of Thermoset Composites" | February 5, 2020 |
| Prof. Qingguo Xu Virginia Commonwealth University Blick Scholar Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, Ophthalmology, Massey Cancer Center, and the Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering | "Long-Lasting Polymeric Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of Eye Diseases" | February 12, 2020 |
Prof. Tim White | "Enabling Functional Outcomes by Programming the Responsivity of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks and Elastomers" | February 26, 2020 |
Solvay Seminars
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Julie Kornfield | "Multiplicity of Morphologies" (abstract) | August 29, 2018 |
| Prof. Sanat Kumar Columbia University Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering | "Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Membranes with Controllable Free-Volume" (abstract) | September 5, 2018 |
Prof. Jaime Grunlan | "Polymer-Based Nanocoatings for Flame Retardancy, Gas Barrier and Thermoelectric Energy Generation" (abstract) | September 26, 2018 |
Prof. Yan Xia | "Building and Breaking Macromolecular Ladders to Develop Microporous Membranes and Mechanically Responsive Polymers" (abstract) | October 3, 2018 |
| Prof. Jeff Youngblood Purdue University Professor, Materials Engineering | "Nano-/Bio- Is Not an Either/Or Choice for Composites" (abstract) | October 10, 2018 |
| Dr. Ahmet Kusoglu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist, Energy Conversion Group | "Chemical-Mechanical Interactions in Ion-Conductive Polymers" (abstract) | October 24, 2018 |
Dr. Erik Hagberg | "Routes to High Performance Sustainable Materials from Carbohydrates" (abstract) | November 7, 2018 |
MII Special Seminars
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Elaine Yorkgitis | "Technical Fables: Stories of Materials R&D at 3M" (abstract) | September 10, 2018 |
| Prof. Ronit Bitton Ben Gurion University | "Structure-Property Relationships in Multicomponent Polysaccharide-Peptide Hydrogels" (abstract) | September 12, 2018 |
| Prof. Feihe Huang Zhejiang University Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor, Chemistry | "Nonporous Adaptive Crystals (NACs) for Separation and Adsorption" (abstract) | October 19, 2018 |
Solvay Seminars
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Rana Ashkar | "It's all about the Interface: Neutron Scattering Insights into Polymer Nanocomposites" | January 30, 2019 |
Prof. Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos | "Stratification and Crystallization in Drying Colloidal Suspensions" | February 27, 2019 |
Prof. Gareth McKinley | "Fog, Feathers and Fluid Friction Reduction using Omniphobic Surfaces: Biomimetic Inspiration and Engineering Realization" | March 20, 2019 |
Prof. Justin Kennemur | “Leveraging Equilibrium Polymerization Thermodynamics to Produce New Materials from Stubborn Monomers” | March 27, 2019 |
Prof. Gary Hamed | “The Discovery of Carbon Black / Natural Rubber Vulcanizates for Automobile and Truck Tires and the Mechanism for the Exceptionally High Tear Strength of these Nanocomposites” | April 3, 2019 |
| Prof. Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering | "Experimental Insights into the Fundamental Mechanisms and Limits of Dropwise Condensation" | April 17, 2019 |
| Dr. Todd Alam Sandia National Laboratories Principal Research and Development Materials Scientist | "Molecular Level Details of Dynamics, Domain Structure and Transport in Polymers Using NMR Spectroscopy" | April 24, 2019 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Serkan Ünal | “High Performance Coatings, Adhesives and Structural Composites from Functional Macromolecules and Nanomaterials” (abstract) | August 14, 2017 |
Prof. Ting Xu | “Supramolecular Nanocomposites: A Possible Path Toward Metamaterials” | August 30, 2017 |
Prof. Valentin Rodionov | “Functional Surfactants and Macromolecular Architectures for Catalysis, Encapsulation, and Transport” (abstract) | September 6, 2017 |
Prof. Luis M. Campos | “Thiophene Rust in Single-Molecule Electronics and Singlet Fission” (abstract) | September 20, 2017 |
Dr. Andrew Meyer | “Polymers Revealed: Light Scattering Tools for Absolute Macromolecular Characterization” (abstract) | September 22, 2017 |
Prof. Joshua Sangoro | “Structural Dynamics and Ion Transport in Polymerized Ionic Liquids” (abstract) | September 27, 2017 |
Dr. Joannie Chin | “A Tale of Two ‘burgs : Highlights of a Journey from VT to NIST” | October 4, 2017 |
Dr. Jan-Michael Carrillo | “Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Soft Matter Systems” (abstract) | October 11, 2017 |
Prof. Kathryn Uhrich | “Polymeric Bioactives: Polymers from Bioactives and as Bioactives” (abstract) | October 18, 2017 |
Prof. Bryan Vogt | “Processing to Manipulate Nanostructures in Order Nanoporous Films” (abstract) | November 15, 2017 |
Prof. Alexander Kabanov | “Polymeric micelles for drug delivery” (abstract) | November 29, 2017 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Deb Kelly | "Peering into the Nanoworld Around Us" (abstract) | January 17, 2018 |
Prof. Alicyn Rhoades | "Flow-Induced Crystallization Across a Broad Temperature Range" (abstract) | January 31, 2018 |
Prof. Dvora Perahia | "Ionizable Macromolecular: Where Computations Meet Neutron Scattering" (abstract) | February 7, 2018 |
Prof. Zhiting Tian | "Thermal Transport in Polymers and Hybrid Materials" (abstract) | February 14, 2018 |
Prof. Sam Stupp | MII Technical Review Plenary Lecture: "Supramolecular Polymers and their Integration with Covalent Polymers" MII/Fralin Visiting Scholar Lecture #2: "Linking up with Biology Using Soft Biomaterials" MII/Fralin Visiting Scholar Lecture #3: "A New Wave of Polymers: A Spectrum of Bonding Among the Mers" | April 18, 2018 April 19, 2018 April 20, 2018 |
Dr. Adam Rawlett | "Materials Research – Weapons and Materials Research Directorate – U.S. Army Research Laboratory" (abstract) | April 25, 2018 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Wenbin Lin | “Metal-organic Frameworks for Sustainable Catalysis and Cancer Therapy” (abstract) | September 7, 2016 |
Kathryn Uhrich | “Polymeric Bioactives: Polymers from Bioactives and as Bioactives” (abstract) | October 26, 2016 |
Alfredo Alexander-Katz | “Blood Clotting-Inspired Polymer Physics” (abstract) | November 30, 2016 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Kermit Kwan | “Solvay Sustainable Chemistry for the 21st Century” (abstract) | January 18, 2017 |
Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III | “Generating Functional Materials from Nanostructured Polymers” (abstract) | February 1, 2017 |
Prof. Takeo Suga | “Controlled Radical Polymerization in Photo-curing: Temporal/Spatial Control on Evolved Gradient Nanostructures” (abstract) | February 10, 2017 |
Prof. Christopher Bettinger | “Edible Electronics: Bioinspired Materials and Structures for Ingestible Batteries” (abstract) | February 15, 2017 |
Prof. Natalie Arnett | “Synthesis of Phosphonated Hybrid Monomers for use as Additives in Proton Exchange Membrane Polymers for Fuel Cell Applications” (abstract) | March 1, 2017 |
Prof. Brian Long | “Utilizing Coordination-Insertion Based Polymerizations for the Synthesis of Tailored Polyolefins and Gas Separation Membranes” (abstract) | March 15, 2017 |
Prof. Abraham Stroock | “From Plants to Clouds – How Nanostructured Materials Mediate Transport and Phase Behavior in the Environment” (abstract) | March 22, 2017 |
Prof. Christoph Weder | “Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Polymer Systems” (abstract) | March 29, 2017 |
Prof. Jason Bara | “Building Simple and Complex Polymer Materials Inspired by Ionic Liquids” (abstract) | April 12, 2017 |
Prof. Michael McAlpine | “3D Printing Functional Materials and Devices” (abstract) | April 19, 2017 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Tim Showalter | “Improving Precision and Comfort for Image-guide Brachytherapy: Better Delivery with Polymer Science” (abstract) | July 7, 2015 |
Dr. Wei Sun | Lecture 3: ” Effect of Bio-ink Viscosity and Printing Process on Cells” (abstract) | September 3, 2015 |
Lecture 2: “3D Cell Printing for In vitro Biological Models” (abstract) | September 1, 2015 | |
Lecture 1: “Bio-3D Printing: Challenges and Opportunities” (abstract) | August 31, 2015 | |
Prof. Shengfeng Cheng | “Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Polymers” (abstract) | September 9, 2015 |
Dr. Gregory Kamyskowski | “Practical Applications of Rheology” (abstract) | September 23, 2015 |
Prof. Jonathan Boreyko | “Phase-Change Systems with Dynamic Interfaces: From Jumping Droplets to Ice Bridges” (abstract) | September 30, 2015 |
Prof. Jean Duhamel | “What can Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer do that Purene Excimer Fluorescence Can’t?” (abstract) | November 4, 2015 |
Dr. Jeff Linhardt | “Utilizing 50 year of Research to Develop Smart Contact Lenses” (abstract) | November 11, 2015 |
| Dr. Bert Meijer Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands MII/Fralin Visiting Scholar Lecture | Lecture 3: “Supramolecular Materials and Systems – Folded Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles; Towards Enzyme Mimics” (abstract) | November 20, 2015 |
Lecture 2: “Supramolecular Materials and Systems – Pathway Complexity in the Self-Assembly of Conjugated Materials; Chirality as a Muse” (abstract) | November 18, 2015 | |
Lecture 1: “Supramolecular Materials and Systems – From Supramolecular Polymers to Functional Materials” (abstract) | November 17, 2015 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Katerina E. Aifantis | “Effects of Matrix Stiffness on Cell Adhesion and Migration” | February 3, 2016 |
Prof. Scott Phillips | “Chemical Amplification in Polymeric Materials” | February 17, 2016 |
Prof. Gillian Goward | “Characterizing Locl Synamics in PolyFluoroSulfonic Acids and Li-Ion Battery Electrolytes Using In situ Magnetic Resonance” | February 24, 2016 |
Prof. Emillie (Mia) Siochi | “Nanotechnology: From Science Fiction to Reality” | March 2, 2016 |
Dr. Aswini Pradhan | “Nanotechnology for Preventative Health Care and Energy” | March 9, 2016 |
Prof. Zhibin Guan | “Bio-inspired Design of Dynamic and Self-Healing Polymer Materials” | April 6, 2016 |
Prof. Jon Pokorski | “Polymer Engineering with Proteins: New Chemistry and Processing Techniques” (abstract) | April 13, 2016 |
Prof. Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng | “Polymer Engineering with Proteins: New Chemistry and Processing Techniques” (abstract) | April 20, 2016 |
Prof. Kenneth B. Wagener | “Raising High Density Polethylene’s Melting Point by 40˚C” (abstract) | May 4, 2016 |
Dr. Travis Baughman | “Materials Based on Designer Polyolefins: From Olefin Metathesis Copolymers to UHMEPE Materials” (abstract) | May 11, 2016 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Darin Dotson | “Recent Developments in Polyethylene Nucleation” | September 10, 2014 |
Prof. Tim St. Pierre | “Magnetic Materials in Medicine: Applications in Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Disease” | October 15, 2014 |
Prof. Andres Boydston | “Development of Polymer Mechanochemistry for the Release of Small Molecules” | October 29, 2014 |
Prof. Ronit Bitton | “Hierarchical Structure of Multicomponent Polysaccharide-Based ECM Mimetics” | December 17, 2014 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Assoc. Professor Makoto Yoshida, Asst. Professor Ryota Kose, and Asst. Professor Nakaba Satoshi | “Eco-Materials Research in Japan – Applications for Nanocellulose, New Fungal Enzymes, and Physiological Control” | January 12, 2015 |
Prof. Lloyd Robeson | Dr. Lloyd Robeson will present 6 hours of lectures on Transport Properties of Polymers. The topics will include fundamentals, structure-property relationships, gas separations, water purification, and new directions. Dr. Robeson is one of the world’s leaders in this field. MII is sponsoring the event and it is also a requirement for the MACR 5016 class. | March 26 & 27, 2015 |
Prof. O. Thompson Mefford | “Integrated Approach for the Fabrication of Multi-functional Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles:Particles, Polymers, and Potential” | April 1, 2015 |
Dr. Jed W. Pitera | “Polymer Modeling at IBM Research – Almaden” | April 3, 2015 |
Dr. David M. Stepp | “Materials Design: Where Do We Go from Here?” | April 20, 2015 |
Prof. Joe Wheeler | “The Virginia Tech FutureHAUS, A proposal for an Industrialized Architecture” | April 21, 2015 |
Dr. Ankit Vora | “Directed Self-assembly of Topcoat-free Polycarbonate Containing High-χ Block Copolymers” | April 27, 2015 |
Dr. David Williams | “Biocompatibility Pathways” (abstract) | April 29, 2015 |
Dr. Charles Black | “Engineering Material Properties Using Block Copolymers Self Assembly” (abstract) | May 13, 2015 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Hunaid Nulwala | “Nano Phase Separated Block Copolymers for Gas Separation Membranes” | August 6, 2013 |
Prof. Megan Robertson | “Sustainable and Biodegradable Structured Polymers” | September 4, 2013 |
Dr. Adam Weber | “Understanding Transport in and Properties of Nafion Across Length Scales” | September 18, 2013 |
Prof. Matthew Green | “Tuning Solution Assemblies of Novel Amphiphilic Block Copolymers Through Manipulation of Interfacial Interactions” | October 4, 2013 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Joe DeSimone | “Co-opting Moore’s Law Design of Shape-specific Particulate-based Vaccines and Therapeutics” | April 4, 2014 |
Dr. Ad Overbeek | “DSM as a Life Science and Material Science Company” | April 14, 2014 |
Dr. Sri Iyer | “North America Energy Transformation and its Impact on Petrochemicals” | April 23, 2014 |
Dr. Nathan Ravi | “Biomimetic Engineering in Ophthalmology” | May 2, 2014 |
Dr. Ludwik Leibler | Lecture 3: “Adhesion and Organ Repair by Nanoparticle Solutions” (abstract) | May 22, 2014 |
Lecture 2: “Vitrimers: A New Class of Materials” (abstract) | May 20, 2014 | |
Lecture 1: “Self-healing Rubbers, Super-Processable Plastics and Universally Dispersible Colloids from Supramolecular Assemblies” (abstract) | May 19, 2014 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. David A. Tirrell | Lecture 3: “Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: From Polymers to Proteomics – Non‐Canonical Amino Acids in the Interrogation of Cellular Protein Synthesis” (abstract) | November 15, 2012 |
Lecture 2: “Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: From Polymers to Proteomics – Proteins that Nature Never Made” (abstract) | November 13, 2012 | |
Lecture 1: “Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: From Polymers to Proteomics – Proteins that Nature Never Made” (abstract) | November 12, 2012 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Werner K. Nielsen | “Recent Development and Future Opportunities in Osmotic Power” | March 1, 2013 |
Dr. Yuichiro Otsuka | “Production of 2-pyrone-4, 6-dicarboxylic Acid as a Novel Polymer-Based Material from Low Molecular Weight lignin by Metabolic Engineering of Microbial Functions” | April 22, 2013 |
Dr. Paul Foreman | “Adhesive Polymers for Transdermal and Transmucosal Drug Delivery” | April 24, 2013 |
Dr. Ashish Kulkarni | “I Got my PhD in……. Now What?” – Perspective on the Road Ahead” | April 26, 2013 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Pedro Miguel Reis | “The Wonders of Thin Objects: Coiling Spaghetti and Pressing on Eggshells” | August 24, 2011 |
Prof. Claus-Michael Lehr | Lecture 3: “Drug Delivery Across Biological Barriers: Intestines, Skin and Lungs – The Barrier of the Lungs” (abstract) | October 20, 2011 |
Lecture 2: “Drug Delivery Across Biological Barriers: Intestines, Skin and Lungs – The Skin Barrier” (abstract) | October 19, 2011 | |
Lecture 1: “Drug Delivery Across Biological Barriers: Intestines, Skin and Lungs – The Gastrointestinal Barrier” (abstract) | October 18, 2011 | |
Prof. Amrinder S. Nain | “STEP Polymeric Fiber Manufacturing Platform for Advanced Materials and Tissue Engineering” | November 30, 2011 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Coray M. Colina | “In-Silico: Expressway to Materials Design” | February 15, 2012 |
Prof. Susie H. Pun | “Peptide-based Polymers for Nucleic Acid Delivery” | April 11, 2012 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Li Jia | “Cobolt-Catalyzed Carbonylative Polymerization” | September 15, 2010 |
Prof. Brent Sumerlin | “New Stimuli-responsive Macromolecules: Polymer-Protein Bioconjugates and “Sweet Tooth” Micelles” | October 6, 2010 |
Dr. Larry Wendling | “Innovation at 3M” (MII Technical Conference) | October 12, 2010 |
Prof. Sungsool Wi | “Solid-State NMR Characterization of Highly Chlorine-resistant Di-sulfonated Poly(Arylene ether Sulfone) Random Copolymers for Research Osmosis Applications” | October 18, 2010 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Sergey V. Kotomin | “History and Development of Molecular Composites in the World and Russia” | April 6, 2011 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Nicole Moore | “The Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of a Novel Polyethylene Glycol Based Gene Delivery System” | September 22, 2009 |
Dr. Jamie Messman | “Reactive and Functional Polymers from Vinyl Dimethyl Aziactone (VDMA)” | September 30, 2009 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Richard Partch | “Nanoparticles for Cancel and Chemical Overdose Therapies” | March 4, 2010 |
Dr. Emmett Crawford | “Development of Tritan Copolyesters” | March 31, 2010 |
Dr. Frank Svec | “The Hydrogen Fuel Alternative: Is It Real?” | April 7, 2010 |
Prof. Wei Chen | “New Polymers for Nonfouling Applications” | April 28, 2010 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Lian R. Hutchings | “Functional Materials Synthesised by Controlled Polymer Chemistry” | August 27, 2008 |
Prof. David Hercules | “Polymer Characterization by Maldi: Some Challenges and Some Successes” and Prof. Tony Gies, Vanderbilt University | October 1, 2008 |
Dr. Matthew Becker | “Non-Traditional Methods for Characterizing Biomaterial Substrates” | October 24, 2008 |
Dr. Joannie Chin | “Characterization of Ambient Temperature Cure Epoxy Used in Boston’s Central Artery Tunnel (“Big Dig”) Ceiling Collapse” | November 5, 2008 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Marc T. Cicerone | “Broadband CARS Microscopy – Overview and Applications” | June 2, 2009 |
Dr. Al Robertson | “Phosphonium-based Ionic Liquids” | June 12, 2009 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Russ Gaudiana | “Prospects for Solar Energy – Organic Photovoltaics” | October 22, 2007 |
Dr. Don Schulz | “Polyolefins Their Role in Sustainable Development” | October 23, 2007 |
Dr. Anthony P. Gies | “Obtaining MALDI Mass Spectra of Insoluble Polymers” | December 6, 2007 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Justin Barone | “Building Biopolymer Structures from Protein Building Blocks” | March 26, 2008 |
Prof. Paul Gatenholm | “Assembly of Polysaccharides into Innovative Biomaterials” | May 7, 2008 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Ralph H. Colby | “Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide)-based Ionomers as Single Ion Conductors” | September 22, 2006 |
Prof. Tim Lodge | “Self-Assembly of Multicompartment Micelles from ABC Star Copolymers” | October 20, 2006 |
Speaker | Seminar Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
Prof. Dan Knauss | “Polymer Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines: Branched Polymers, Polymeric Particles, Polylactides, and Iolymers by Nucleophilic A Romatic Substitution” | April 11, 2007 |
Mr. Mitchell A. Katz and Dr. Chris Curfman | “Paradigms in Chemical Patent Law” | April 25, 2007 |