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Polymer
Physics seminar in Materials Science & Engineering Department at The
Pennsylvania State University is a unique and stimulating event that
provides opportunities for sharing frontiers in polymer science and
engineering with our graduate students and faculty members.
To
Graduate Students: Research seminars are intended to train us to face audiences which
ask very incisive and difficult questions. This will help us develop the
skill of thinking on our feet. Realize that this is still a friendly
audience, which can provide critical inputs. The talk should not exceed
an hour, including questions, and should definitely be at least 30 minutes
long (bare, without questions). It is the speaker's duty to learn how
to alter the presentation according to the number and nature of questions
posed by the audience. The audience must also participate: the audience
members must learn to ask intelligent and probing questions on scientific
issues discussed by the speaker. The motive is to expose the speaker's
weaknesses and help him / her identify areas that need strengthening.
Terms of Engagement
1. Everyone (faculty, post-docs and grad students) who is in
town on the day of a seminar must attend.
2.
Seminars are held in 301 Steidle on Tuesdays, starting at 10:00 A.M.
to 11:00 A.M., unless otherwise noted.
3.
Contact U Hyeok Choi with your seminar title and abstract the Friday before you are
scheduled to speak.
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2012
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2010
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Speaker
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January 3
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January 10
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Stephanie Ann
Petrina, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner |
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January 17 |
Joseph Moll,
Chemistry,
Columbia University
Advisor:
Professor
Ralph H. Colby &
Professor Sanat K Kumar |
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January 24 |
Professor Donald J Leo,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
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January 31
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February 7 |
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February 14 |
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February 21 |
Professor Lei
Zhu, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland OH |
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February 22 |
Ramesh S., Louisiana State
University |
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February 28 |
Geoff Geise, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin |
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March 6 |
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March 13 |
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March 20 |
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March 27 |
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April 3 |
Kyle Hart,
Materials
Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Coray Colina
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April 10 |
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April 17 |
Kuan-Yu Yeh, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Michael J.
Janik and
Professor Janna Maranas |
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April 24 |
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Polymer
Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Fall 2011
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Date
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Speaker
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September
5 |
Professor Kenji Miyatake, Clean Energy
Research Center, University of Yamanshi, Japan
Title :
Ion
Conductive Aromatic Polymer for Fuel Cell Applications |
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September
6
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Huai Suen Shiau, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby & Michael
Janik
Title :
Computationally aided design of ionic polymer electrolytes for facile ion
transport |
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September
13
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Professor Bryan Vogt, Polymer Engineering, The University of
Akron, Akron, OH 44325
Title :
Insights into the thickness dependent properties of organic glass films |
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September 20 |
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September
27
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October
4 |
He Xie, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor
Michael Hickner
Title : Layer-by-Layer
Coatings for Low-Fouling Reverse Osmosis Membranes |
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October
11 |
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October
18 |
Melanie Lisa Disabb-Miller, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor
Michael Hickner
Title :
Ion-Containing Block Copolymers for Fuel Cell Membranes |
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October
25 |
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November
1 |
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November
8 |
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November
15 |
Helen
Jing-Han Wang,
Chemical Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Professor Ralph H. Colby
Title :
Structure-Dynamics Relationship of Poly(ethylene oxide)-Based Single-Ion
Conductors |
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November
22 |
Kan-Ju Lin, Department of
Chemical Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Professor
Janna Maranas
Title : A Molecular Look
at PEO-Based Ionomers for Battery Application |
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November
29
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Professor Henry Bock, School of Engineering and Physical
Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Title : The
Science of Dispersing Carbon Nanotubes with Surfactants |
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December
6 |
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December
13 |
Professor Alejandro L.
Briseno, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 |
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December
20 |
Alfonso
Mendoza, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor
Michael Hickner |
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December
21 |
Dr. Tao Wei,
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center & Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Title:
Modeling of Protein
Adsorptions |
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Polymer
Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Summer
2011
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Date
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Speaker
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June 7
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Dr.
Jack F. Douglas,
Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Title:
Influence of
Nanoparticles on Fragility and Collective Particle Motion in Polymer
Glass-Formation |
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June 14
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Shih-Wa Wang, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title:
Synthesis and
characterization of polyurethane ionomers |
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June
21
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Professor Zoubeida Ounaies,
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering,
Penn State University
Title:
Design of
Electrical Functionality in Polymer-Based Nanocomposites |
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June
23 (2 pm) |
Professor Martin Lisal,
Czech Academy of Science
Title:
Air-Liquid
Interface of Imidazolium-Based [Tf2N-] Ionic Liquids: Insight from Molecular
Dynamics Simulations |
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June 28
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July
5
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July
12
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Laura Mely Ramirez, Chemical
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Darrell Velegol and Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title:
Self-assembly of Doublets
made from Flattened Spherical Polymer Colloids |
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July
19 |
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July
26
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Felipe
Salcedo Galan,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Professor
Evangelos Manias
Title:
Polyethylene/Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Copolymer/Organoclay nanocomposites for
flexible-film packaging applications; rheological and thermomechanical
properties |
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August
2
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Professor Francisco R.
Hung, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Title:
Structure and dynamics of ionic liquids confined in nanoporous carbons |
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August
9
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Dr. Y. Thomas Hu,
Structured Materials and Processing Science Unilever Trumbull
Research
Title:
Shear
banding in structured fluids |
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August
16
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Professor Karen I.
Winey, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Title:
Morphologies in Precise Acid- and Ion-Containing Polymers
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August
23
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Lauren Jeanine Abbott, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Professor Coray Colina
Title:
Characterizing the Structure and Porosity of Organic Molecules of
Intrinsic Microporosity by Molecular Simulations and X-ray Scattering |
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August
30
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Jiezhu Jin, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor :Professor
Qing Wang
Title:
Multiferroic Polymer
Composites |
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Polymer
Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Spring
2011 |
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Date
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Speaker
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January 4
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January 11
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January 18
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Professor Lynn M. Walker,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh PA 15213
Title:
Structure
and Shear Alignment of Nanoparticle-Block Copolymer Hydrogels |
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January 25
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Professor Kevin Cavicchi,
Department of Polymer Engineering,
University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325
Title:
Shape Memory
Block Copolymers
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February
1
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Professor Chris Collison,
Department of Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
14623-5603
Title:
Strategies for improved efficiency and sustainability of bulk
heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices |
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February
8
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Dr. Robert L. Sammler,
Material Science and Engineering, Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, 48674
Ttle:
The role of interchain
entanglements in the thermal gelation of aqueous methyl cellulose |
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February
15 |
Dr. Casey Check,
Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH 44106
Advisor:
Professor Morton
Litt
Title:
Design, synthesis and
characterization of two-dimensional polyelectrolytes |
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February
22
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Professor Eric M.
Furst,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
19716
Title:
Field-directed assembly of structured nanomaterials |
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March
1
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Dr. Jeff Meth, DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE 19880-0400
Title:
The
Development of Filler Structure in Colloidal Silica --Polymer Nanocomposites |
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March
8
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Alicia
Castagna,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor James P. Runt
Title:
Structure and Dynamics
of Microphase Separated Polymers Containing Strong Associations
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March
15
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Professor Christopher K.
Ober,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
14853-1501
Title:
The convergence of top down and
bottom up patterning applied to microelectronics and the life sciences |
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March
22
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March
29
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Hanqing
Zhao,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Paul Painter
&
Professor James P. Runt
Title:
Study of Vibrational
Relaxation and Dynamic Transitions in Polymer Systems by Infrared Spectroscopy |
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April
5
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Dr.
Jian Qin, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Scott
T. Milner
Title:
Entanglements in Ring
Polymers: Visualization and Topological Analysis
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April
12
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Professor Rober A. Weiss,
Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH
44325-0301
Title:
Properties
of Ion-containing Polymers |
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April
19 |
EAB Meeting |
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April 26
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May 3 |
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May 10 |
Professor Federico Bordi,
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' and Istituto
Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM CRS_SOFT), Unita di Romal,
Italy
Title:
A
phenomenological model for the polyelectrolyte induced aggregation of
charged colloids. A system with a potential for biotechnological
applications |
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May 17 |
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May
24 |
ILED MURI Meeting |
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May
31
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Polymer
Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Fall 2010
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Date
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Speaker
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September 7
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September 14
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Siwei
Liang,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor :
Professor Ralph H. Colby
Title
:
Synthesis and
Characterization of Polysiloxane-based Single Ion Conductor containing
Weak-binding Salt |
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September 21
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Professor David L. Allara,
Department of Polymer Science and Chemistry, Penn State University
Title
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Electrical
and Electromagnetic Responses of Molecules in Confined Geometries -
Applications to Molecule-Based Electronic Devices |
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September 28
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October 5
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Kevin A. Masser,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor James P. Runt
Title
:
Dynamics of Hydrogen
Bonding Polymer Blends Exhibiting Minimized Self Associations and Liquid
Crystalline Polymers of Unique Chemistry |
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October 12
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Professor Suzanne Mohney,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Title
:
Future Faculty Research Funding Discussion
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October 19 |
Professor Robert Mathers, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University,
New Kensington
Title
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Controlling
the Architecture and Functionality of Polymerization Systems with Renewable
Resources
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October 26
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Kui Xu,
Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Qing
Wang
Title
:
Design and Chemistry of
Polymer Electrolyte Materials with Controllable Transport Properties |
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November 2
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Gregory S. Larsen,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State
University
Advisor:
Professor Coray M.
Colina
Title
:Simulated
Adsorption and Characterization of Novel Nanoporous Polymers
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November 9
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Professor
Sergio Granados-Focil,
Department of Chemistry, Clark
University, Worcester, MA
01610
Title
:Design
of triazole bearing sol-gel and polymer membranes as ion transporting
membranes for renewable energy applications |
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November 16
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Professor Thomas H. Epps, III,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716
Title
:Using
Interfacial Manipulations to Generate Functional Materials from Nanostructured
Polymers |
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November 23
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Amanda McDermott,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor James P. Runt
Title
:Structure
of Free Volume in Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity: X-ray Scattering with
Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
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November 30
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Kokonald Sinha, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Penn State
Advisor :
Professor Janna Maranas
Title
:A
Quasi Elastic Neutron Scattering study of polymer dynamics in PEO based
sulfonate ionomers: Effect of ion content and ion identity |
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December 7
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Professor Shi-Qing Wang,
Department of Polymer Science, University of
Akron, Akron OH
44325
Title
:Building
a phenomenological and conceptual foundation for nonlinear rheology of
entangled polymeric liquids |
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December 14
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December 21
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December 28
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Polymer Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Summer 2010
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Date
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Speaker
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June 8
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Paisan Khanchaitit,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Professor Qing Wang
Title:
Crosslinked-PVDF-CTFE for Dielectric Energy Storage |
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June 15
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Professor Enrique Gomez, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn
State University
Title:
Quantifying the degree of phase separation in polymer solar cells |
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June 22
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Professor Clare McCabe,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Department of
Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1604
Title:
Developing Coarse-Grained Models for the Molecular Simulation of the Self
Assembly of Skin Lipids |
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June 29
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Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) |
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July 6
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Professor
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Penn State
University |
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July 13
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July 20
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July 27
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August 3
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August 10
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August 17
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August 24
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U Hyeok Choi,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn
State
University
Advisor:
Ralph H. Colby |
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August 31
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Polymer Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Spring
2010
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Date
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Speaker
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January 12
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Dr.
Jian Qin, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Scott
T. Milner(Ph.D. Advisor:
Prof. David Morse, in Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials
Science at University of Minnesota)
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January 19
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Dr. Eric B. Sirota, Corporate Strategic Research ExxonMobil Research
and Engineering Co. Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801
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January
26
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February 2
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Shih-Wa Wang, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title:
Counterion Dynamics in Polyurethane-Carboxylate Ionomers with Ionic Liquid
Counterions
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February 9
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Dr. Tanuj Motwani, Deparment of
Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor
Janna Maranas
Title:
State of Water in Starch-Water Systems as Investigated using Dielectric
and NMR Relaxation Methods
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February 16
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February 23
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March 2
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Alfonso J Mendoza, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner
Title:
Using Raman
Microspectroscopy to Image the Polymer Distribution in Composite Materials
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March 9
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Professor Norman J. Wagner,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716
Title:
A
tale of two surfactants: combining light and neutron scattering with
rheology to understand shear banding and shear induced phase transitions
in wormlike micellar solutions
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March
15~19
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APS March Meeting 2010,
Portland, OR
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March
22
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Dr. Takeo Suga, Department of Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Tokyo,
169-8555, Japan
Title:
Rdox-Active Radical
Polymers for Charge-Storage/Transport Materials: Organic Rechargeable
Battery and Memory Applications
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March 30
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Professor Alfred J. Crosby (presented by Avery Dennison),
Polymer
Science & Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Amherst MA 01003
Title:
Instabilities in Polymer Networks
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April
1
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Dr. Patricia Hunt, Department of Chemistry,
Imperial College, London, U.K.
Title:
Understanding Ionic Liquids:
From the Electronic Structure Up
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April
5
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Professor Alexei
Kornyshev,
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K.
Title:
Unravelling new
abilities encoded in the structure of DNA
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April
13
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April 27
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Hunter
Moore, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner
Title:
Morphology and
Transport Properties of Midblock-sulfonated Triblock Copolymers
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May
4
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May 11
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May
18
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Dr. Douglas R. Robello,
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY 14650-2116
Title:
Quantum Amplified Isomerization: A photoinitiated chain reaction in glassy
polymers |
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May
25
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ILED MURI Workshop
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Polymer Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Fall
2009
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Date
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Speaker
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September 8
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Amanda McDermott, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title:
Structure of
Ion-Containing Polymers: Relationship of the Low-q X-ray Scattering Upturn
to Ion Content
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September 22
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Professor Mark Maroncelli, Department of Chemistry,
Penn State University
Title:
Solvation and
Charge Transfer in Ionic Liquids
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September
29
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Professor Shelley L.
Anna, Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Title:
Surfactant-Laden
Interfaces in Microfluidic Devices
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October
5~7
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2009
Conference on Polymers and Ionic Liquids: From Synthesis to Performance,
Arlington, VA
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October 13
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Dr. James Snyder,
Materials Division, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Title:
Materials
Development for Multifunctional Structural Composites That Provide Energy
Storage
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October
16 (Friday)
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Professor
Hiroshi Watanabe, Institute for Chemical Research Division of
Multidisciplinary Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan
Title:
Dielectric Relaxation of Polymer/Carbon Dioxide Systems
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October 20
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81st
SoR Annual Meeting, October 18 - 22, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin
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October 22
(Thursday)
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Professor Frederick Kremer,
Molecular Physics, Materials Research Spectroscopy Institute of
Experimental Physics I, University of Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Title:
Glassy
dynamics and charge transport in ionic liquids
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November 3
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Professor
Edward W. Castner Jr., Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Title:
Structure,
Transport and Photo-Induced Reactions in Ionic Liquids
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November
10
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Professor Benjamin Chu,
Department of Chemistry; Department of Materials Science & Engineering;
Department of Biomedical Engineering (affiliated member); Stony Brook
University; Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
Title:
Instrumentation
Development of Multi-Scaled Scattering & Applications to
Bio-Macromolecular Systems
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November
17
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Kan-Ju
Lin, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
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November
24
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He
Xie, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner, Materials Science and Engineering
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December 1
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December
8
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Professor Lynden A. Archer, the Marjorie L. Hart Chair in Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Title:
Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid
Materials (NOHMs)
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December
15
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Stephanie Petrina, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner, Materials Science and Engineering
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Polymer Physics Seminar Series
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Seminar Schedule for Summer
2009
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Date
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Speaker
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June 9
|
Professor Scott T. Milner, Joyce Chair Professor, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Title: Polymer
Melt-Crystal Interfaces
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June 19
(Friday)
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Professor Costantino Creton,
Director of PPMD Laboratory at ESPCI (The City
of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry
Higher Educational Institution), Paris, France
Title: Large Strain and
Fracture Properties of Hydrogels
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June
21-26
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Polymer
Gordon Research Conference, Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA
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June 30
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Dr.
Christopher Soles, Leader of Polymers Division Electronics Materials
Group, NIST
Title: The Direct Patterning
of Organosilicate Materials by Nanoimprint Lithography
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July 7
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Professor
Janna Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Structure and
dynamics of polymer electrolytes
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July 14
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Professor
Michael Hickner, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Polymers, Water,
and Ions: Interesting Observations on Morphology, Diffusion, and
Conductivity
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July 16
(Thursday)
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Dr.
Ashoutosh Panday, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL),
Berkeley, CA
Currently post-doc at
Prof. Nitash
Balsara Group University of California, Berkeley, CA
Title: Electrochemical
Transport Properties of polystyrenepolyethyleneoxide Block Copolymer
Electrolytes
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July 21
|
Professor
Ronald G. Larson, George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical
Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Title: Microfluidic
Methods for Manipulating Biopolymers
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July 28
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Professor Enrique D. Gomez, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Title: Quantifying the role
of poly(3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene crystallinity on the performance
of polymer solar cells
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August 11
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Kui Xu, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Qing
Wang
Title: High Proton Conducting Nafion®/Sulfonated-Silica
Nanocomposites
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August
18
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238th
ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 16-20, Washington, DC, USA
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August
25
|
Fidel Castro Marcano, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Coray
M. Colina
Title: Gas Adsorption
in Nanoporous Poly(dichloroxylene) Networks
|
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Polymer Physics Seminar Series
|
|
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Seminar Schedule
for Spring 2009
|
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Date
|
Speaker
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January 13
|
Sheng Liu, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Materials Research Institute,
The
Pennsylvania State University
Adivsor: Professor Qiming
Zhang
Title: Electro-Active
Polymer Actuators and Sensors
|
|
January 20
|
Gregory Tudryn, Materials Science
and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title:
Weakening
Ion Interactions in Ionomers using Bulky Counterions
|
|
January 27
|
Dr. Erica Saltzman, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
Advisor: Professor
Sanat K Kumar
Title: Conformation
and Translocation of Model Polymer in Linear Series of Chambers
|
|
January 29
|
Professor
Kenji Miyatake,
Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi, 4 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi 4008510, JAPAN
Title: Hydrocarbon
Ionomer Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications
|
|
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|
February 17
|
Greg Hogshead, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Tunable,
Temperature-Responsive, Tethered Polymer Gradients
|
|
February 24
|
Professor T. C. Mike
Chung, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Synthesis,
Characterization, and Applications of New Polypropylenes with Linear, Long
Chain Branching, and Cross-linking Structures
|
|
February 27
|
Professor Oleg Borodin,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah &
Wasatch Molecular Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
Title: Force Field
Development and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquids,
Electrolytes
|
|
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|
March 3
|
Dr. Enrique Soto Castruita, The
W.G. Pritchard Laboratories, Department of Mathematics,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Andrew
Belmonte
Title: Single Air
Bubbles Ascending in Polymeric Fluids
|
|
March 9~15
|
Spring Break
|
|
March 16~20
|
APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
|
|
March 24
|
Wenjuan Liu, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby, Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Professor Michael J.
Janik, Chemical Engineering
Title: How far can ab initio
calculations take us in predicting ion conduction in ionomers? for Li
Batteries and Actuators
|
|
March 31
|
Dr.
Tomonori Saito, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner, Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Professor Bruce
Logan, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Title: Synthesis and
Characterization of Multiphase Block Copolymers: Influence of Functional
Groups in Macromolecular Architecture
|
|
|
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April 7
|
Professor Michael Janik, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Title: First-Principles
Evaluation and Design of Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells
|
|
April 14
|
Professor Paul
Painter, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Title: Self-Contacts and
Self-Concentration Effects in Polymer Solutions and Blends
|
|
April 21
|
8 a.m. - 1 p.m. EAB
Meeting
|
|
April 28
|
Kevin A. Masser,
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title:
Hydrogen
Bonding Polymer Blends: Dynamics of Miscible Blends Exhibiting Controlled
Intramolecular Interactions
|
|
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|
May 5
|
Dr.
Nathaniel J. Wentzel, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Scott
T. Milner
Title: Crystal and Rotator Phases of
n-alkanes: a Molecular Dynamics Study
|
|
May 12
|
Kristin Patterson, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Coray M.
Colina
Title: Probing the behavior
of biopolymeric systems via molecular simulation
|
|
May 19
|
Professor Timothy Long,
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University (Virginia Tech),
Blacksburg, Virginia
Title: The Allure of
Imidazole-Containing Polymers
|
|
May 26
|
Dr. Hyungki
Lee, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title: Dynamics of uniaxially
oriented elastomers using dielectric spectroscopy
|
|
|
|
Seminar Schedule for Fall 2008
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
September
02
|
Professor Ronald
Hedden, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Polydomain-Monodomain
Transition in Smectic Elastomers
|
|
September 09
|
Professor
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
School of Engineering & Applied Science,
Yale University
Title: Nanostructured
Polymeric Materials for Energy Storage and Harvesting
|
|
September 16
|
Susan
Fullerton, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
Title: The
effect of LiClO4 on the structure and mobility of PEO-based solid polymer
electrolytes investigated using SANS and QENS
|
|
September 23
|
Professor Andrew Belmonte,
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Title: Attraction
Without Coalescence: Surprises in Electrolyte / Oil Emulsion
|
|
September 30
|
Professor James P.
Runt, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Title: 'Biomedical'
Segmented Polyurethane Copolymers: Segment Demixing,
Nanoscale Structure, and Molecular Dynamics
|
|
|
|
October 07
|
Professor Qiming
Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Penn
State University
Title: Multifunctional
Polymers and Nanocomposites
|
|
October 14
|
Professor Coray
Colina, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Title: Towards
the Understanding of Polymeric Materials in Silico
|
|
October 21
|
Dr.
Taeyi Choi, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title: PDMS-based
Segmented Polyurethanes for Biomedical Applications: Segment composition
and Microstructure
|
|
October 28
|
Kokonad Sinha, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna
Maranas
Title:
Preparation of PEO-Alumina nanocomposites with controlled
dispersion for use as solid polymer electrolytes
|
|
|
|
November 04
|
Daniel Lentz, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Ronald C. Hedden
Title: End-linking synthesis of main-chain liquid
crystalline elastomers
|
|
November 11
|
Laura Mely Ramirez, Chemical
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Darrell Velegol, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Title: Flexible
Polloidal Chains
|
|
November
16-21
|
2008 AIChE
Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA
|
|
November 25
|
Dr.
Flor R. Siperstein, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science,
University of Manchester, U.K.
Title: Modelling
Surfactant Templated Materials
|
|
Polymer
Physics Seminar Series
|
|
Seminar Schedule for
Summer 2008
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
May 13
2:00PM
|
Professor Miriam
Rafailovich, Garcia Center, Director, Dept. of Materials Science &
Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Title: Biology
and physics at the interface: The effect of substrate mechanics on cell
function
|
|
June 24
|
Dr. Jingling Yan, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Michael Hickner
Title:
Isomeric Polyimides
|
|
|
|
June 29 ~
July 4
|
2008
Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conferences,
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
|
|
July 08
|
Professor Darrell Velegol,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Fabricating Colloidal Devices
|
|
July 15
|
Professor Scott T. Milner, Joyce Chair Professor, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Penn
State University
Title: A
New Look At Stress Relaxation in Melts of Unlinked Rings
|
|
July 22
|
Professor
Janna Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Designing
coarse-grained models for dynamics
|
|
July 29
|
Professor Karen I.
Winey, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Electrical
Conductivity and Polymer Diffusion in SWCNT / Polymer Nanocomposites
|
|
|
|
August 3 ~
8
|
The XVth International Congress on
Rheology, Monterey, California
|
|
August 12
|
Romesh
J. Patel, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Michael Hickner
Title: Hierarchical
Morphology Control of P3HT/CNT Films for Organic Photovoltaic Applications
|
|
August 19
|
U
Hyeok Choi, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title:
Understanding Ion transport in Ionomers
using Dielectric Spectroscopy
|
|
August 26
|
Dr.
Daniel M. Fragiadakis, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
|
|
|
|
Seminar Schedule for
Spring 2008
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
January 22
|
Professor
Ralph H. Colby, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Designing
Ion-Containing Polymers for Facile Ion Transport
|
|
January 29
|
Professor S. Richard
Turner, Director Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, Americas
Editor Chemistry and Synthesis POLYMER, Department of Chemistry, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
Title:
Alternating
Copolymerization of Substituted Stilbenes as Route to New Precisely
Functionalized Polymers
|
|
|
|
February
3~8
|
Gordon
Research Conferences - 2008 Program (Colloidal,
Macromolecular & Polyelectrolyte Solutions),
Ventura, CA
|
|
February 12
|
Professor Louis
Madsen, Department of Chemistry, Macromolecules and Interfaces
Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Title: Diffusion,
Dynamics, and Order in Ionomers Probed Using NMR
|
|
February 19
|
Wenjuan Liu,
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Ralph H. Colby
Title: Ion
Solvation Energetics
|
|
February 26
|
Professor
Paul Trulove, Department of Chemistry, United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis MD 21402
Title: Ionic
Liquids, Not Your Ordinary Solvents: A Look at Their Properties and Their
Applications in Polymer Processing
|
|
|
|
March 4
|
Shih-Wa Wang, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H. Colby
Title: Polyurethane Ionomer Synthesis for Single-ion
Conductor Application
|
|
March 10~14
|
APS March Meeting, New
Orleans, Louisiana
|
|
March 18
|
Gregory S. Larsen,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State
University
Advisor: Professor Coray M.
Colina
Title: Gas
Adsorption in Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity
|
|
March 25
|
Kui
Xu, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Qing Wang
Title: Self-Assembly
Approaches to Proton Conductive Polymer Membranes
|
|
|
|
April 1
|
Professor
Michael Rubinstein, John P. Barker Distinguished Professor, Department
of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290
Title: A
Simplified View on the Airway Surface Layer of a Lung
|
|
April 6~10
|
Spring
2008 ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana
|
|
April 15
|
Dr. Michael Hibbs, Senior Member of the
Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Title: Design
and Synthesis of Novel Anion-exchange Membranes for Energy Applications
|
|
April 22
|
Professor Robert
K. Prud'homme; Department of Chemical Engineering;
Princeton University; Princeton, NJ 08544
Title: Nanoparticle
Formation by Flash NanoPrecipitation using Block Copolymer Directed
Self-Assembly
|
|
April 29
|
Professor
Andrey Dobrynin, Institute of Materials Science, & Department of Physics,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-3136
Title: Computer
Simulations of Polyelectrolytes at Surface and Interfaces
|
|
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
August 28
|
Andrew J. Duncan, Macromolecular
Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech
Advisor: Professor Donald J. Leo,
Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Advisor: Professor Timothy E. Long, Department of Chemistry, Virginia
Tech
Title: Synthesis
and Characterization of Highly Branched Polysulfones for Ionic Polymer
Transducers
|
|
September
11
|
Dr. Alan I. Nakatani, Rohm and Haas
Company, Spring House, PA
Title: Applications
of Ultra Small Angle Neutron Scattering (USANS) to the Coatings Industry
|
|
September
13
|
Professor Stefan
Zauscher, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Duke University
Title: Soft-Surface
Tribology: From Friction on Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogels to
Boundary-Lubrication of Articular Cartilage
|
|
September
18
|
Professor John Asbury,
Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
Title:
Watching Electrons Move in Real Time: Ultrafast
Infrared Spectroscopy of a Polymer Blend Photovoltaic Material
|
|
September
25
|
Dr. Jinguo Zhang, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Heat
Sealabilty of PE Nanocomposite Film
|
|
|
|
October 02
|
Professor Michael
Hickner, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Cation
and Anion Transport in Functionalized Polymers
|
|
October
7~11
|
The
Society of Theology 79th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah
|
|
October 16
|
Dr. Bryan Pivovar,
Fuel Cell Team Leader, MPA-11: Sensors and Electrochemical Devices, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Developing
and Using Novel Polymer Electrolytes in Fuel Cells
|
|
October 23
|
Dr.
Yan-Jie Wang, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor
Ralph H.
Colby
Title: Nafion/Glass
Proton Conducting Composite Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
|
|
October 30
|
Dr. John K. Brennan, Weapons and
Materials Research Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Title: Multiscale
Modeling of Polymer Systems: Defense-Related Applications
|
|
|
|
November 06
|
Professor Patrick
T. Mather, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering ,
Syracuse University
Title: POSS-Based
Polymeric Nanocomposites
|
|
November 13
|
Erin Boland,
Department of
Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
Title: Comparison
of Experiment and United Atom Simulation Results with Respect
to Polymer Dynamics
|
|
November 20
|
Happy
Thanksgiving!
|
|
November
26~30
|
2007
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA
|
|
|
|
December 04
|
Dr. Perumal
Ramasamy, Materials Science
and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James
Runt
Title: Interactions
of proteins in gels, solutions and on surfaces
|
|
December 11
|
Dr. Taeyi Choi, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title: Ultra-lightweight
Nanorelief Networks: Photopatterned Microframes
|
|
December 18
|
Prof. Yossef A Elabd, Department of Chemical and
Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Title: Transport
Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
|
|
Seminar Schedule for
Summer 2007
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
May 08
|
Dr. Junhwan Jeon, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Professor Peter T.
Cummings
Title: Molecular
Modeling and Simulation of Polymeric and Biological Systems
|
|
May 15
|
Charles G. Hogshead, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Mixed
Monolayers and Polymer Brush Gradients
|
|
May 22
|
Theresa Foley, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Water
Soluble Temperature Responsive Polymers
|
|
May 29
|
Professor Jan Vermant,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Department of
Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Alignment
and orientation effects of particle suspended in viscoelastic liquids
|
|
|
|
June 05
|
Dr. Rebeca Hernandez, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title: Phase
Organization of Model Biomedical Polyurethanes
|
|
June 12
|
Jason W. Claude, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Qing Wang
Title: Electric
Breakdown in Vinylidene Fluoride Based Polymers
|
|
June 19
|
Dr. Daniel M. Fragiadakis, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor James P. Runt
Title: Mobile
ion concentration and ion mobility in polyurethane ionomers
|
|
|
|
July 03
|
Bret Neese, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Qing Wang, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering
Advisor: Professor Qiming Zhang Distinguished Professor of Electrical
Engineering, PSU
Title: Electromechanical
Responses in PVDF based Polymers
|
|
July 10
|
Professor
Richard P. Wool
Department of
Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
Center for
Composite Materials
Colburn
Laboratory
Title: Unraveling
Polymer Entanglement and Dynamic Theories of Polymer Rheology
|
|
July 17
|
Susan
Fullerton, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
Title: Influence
of humidity and crystallization time on the conductivity of
nanoparticle-filled solid polymer electrolytes
|
|
July 24
|
Burcu Unal, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Ronald C. Hedden
Title: Colonization
of Highly Swelling Hydrogels by Rhizobia
|
|
|
|
August 07
|
Dr. He Huang,
College of Materials Science and Engineering,
Hubei University, China
Title: On
the 'Sequential Order' Rules in Generalized Two dimensional Correlation
Spectroscopy
|
|
August 14
|
Hyeran Noh, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Erwin A. Vogler
Title: Volumetric
Interpretation of Protein Adsorption: Partition Coefficients, Interphase
Volumes, and Free Energies of Adsorption
|
|
August 21
|
Dr. Georgios Polyzos, Materials Science and
Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Cation
exchange capacity and water effects on the mobility of alkyl-ammonium
surfactants being nanoconfined in montmorillonite platelets. A dielectric
relaxation spectroscopy study
|
|
August 24
|
Professor Peter M. Budd,
School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
2:30 P.M. ~ 3:30 P.M., 301 Steidle Building
Title: Polymers
of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs)
|
|
|
|
Seminar Schedule for Spring 2007
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
January 16
|
Dr. David Hu, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science,
New York University
Advisor: Professor Michael Shelley
Title: Two
studies in biolocomotion: walking on water and slithering on land
|
|
January 23
|
Professor Luis E Norena-Franco, Metropolitan
Autonomous University
Title: MCM-41
Mesoporous Materials: Structure and Applications
|
|
January 26
|
Professor Martin Lisal,
Department of Physics, J. E. Purkinje University, Czech Republic
Title: Alignment
of Lamellar Diblock Copolymer Phases under Shear: Insight from Dissipative
Particle Dynamics Simulations
|
|
January 30
|
Dr. Kirt A. Page,
Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title: The
Influence of Electrostatic Interactions on Chain Dynamics, Counterion
Dynamics, and Morphological Development in Perfluorosulfonate Ionomers
|
|
|
|
February 6
|
Professor Ronald
Hedden, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Synthesis of Model Main-Chain
Smectic Elastomers
|
|
February 15
|
Professor Samuel Kenig,
Managing Director of Israel
Plastics & Rubber Center
Professor
Dodiuk Hanna, the Head of Department of Plastics Engineering,
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Title: Nano
Enhanced Polymer Adhesives
|
|
February 27
|
Dr. Chunxia Chen, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
Title:
Local
dynamics of syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) using molecular dynamics
simulation
|
|
|
|
March 5~9
|
APS
March Meeting, Denver, CO
|
|
March 13
|
Dr. Ana
Vila Verde, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Janna Maranas
Title: Investigating
the specificity of adsorption of onto gold by gold-binding peptides using
molecular dynamics simulations
|
|
March 20
|
Professor Claudio
Olivera-Fuentes, Department of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena,
Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela
Title: Pitiless
Moderation: Le Chatelier's Principle Revisited
|
|
March 27
|
Roman Galdamez, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Ronald P. Danner
Title: Applications
of Inverse Gas Chromatography to Multicomponent Systems
|
|
|
|
April 3
|
Professor
Darrin J. Pochan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and
Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
Title: Construction
of Nanostructures and Materials through Peptide or Charged Block Copolymer
Self-assembly
|
|
April 10
|
Polymer Center Kickoff Meeting, Materials Day
|
|
April 17
|
Wenjuan Liu,
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Ralph H. Colby
Title: Modeling
of Segmental Dynamics
|
|
|
|
Seminar
Schedule for Fall 2006
|
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
|
|
|
September 5
|
Professor Gerhard Ziegmann,
Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
Title: High
Performance Fiber Reinforced Polymers for Advanced Applications
|
|
September 12
|
Matthew J. Heidecker, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: The
Design of Selective Montmorillonite Phase Dispersion and Compatibilized
PET/PC/o-mmt Nanocomposite Blends
|
|
September 19
|
Alexei Kisselev, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Theoretical insights
into phase behavior of smart polymers with tunable LCST
|
|
September 26
|
Professor Ralph Colby, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: Linear
Viscoelasticity of Semidilute Polymer Solutions
|
|
|
|
October 10
|
Harshad P. Patil, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Ronald C. Hedden
Title: Effect of Chemical Microstructure on Phase
Behavior of Main Chain Liquid Crystalline Poly (siloxanes)
|
|
October 17
|
Theresa Foley, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Design and realization of
temperature-responsive polyamides and polyesters with tunable
response
|
|
October 24
|
Dr. Georgios Polyzos, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor Evangelos Manias
Title: Dielectrophoretic
alignment of montmorillonite nanoplatelet suspensions in an organic matrix
|
|
October 31
|
Professor Coray
Colina, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Title: Molecular modeling of polymeric
systems
|
|
|
|
November 7
|
Dr. Mike Roland, Chemistry Division,
Naval Research Laboratory
Title: The Dynamics of Vitrifying
Liquids and polymers
|
|
November 14
|
Professor Michael Bockstaller,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Title: Block Copolymer/Nanoparticle
Composites: Opportunities for Novel Functional Materials
|
|
November 21
|
Suphannee Pongkitwitoon, Materials
Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor:
Professor James Runt
Title: Nanoscale
Phase Transition of Segmented Polyurethanes
|
|
November 28
|
Nov.
27th- Dec.
1st 2006
MRS Fall Meeting,
Boston, MA
|
|
|
|
December 5
|
Wenjuan Liu,
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Ralph H. Colby
Title: Terminal and Segmental Dynamics
in Miscible Blends of Polystyrene and Poly(vinyl methyl ether)
|
|
December 12
|
Professor
Janna Maranas, Chemical Engineering,
Penn State University
Title: The
influence of trehalose on melting and dynamics in dehydrated phospholipid
bilayers
|
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