Fall 2019
Location: IMS, room 159 at 1 p.m.
| DATE | NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
| Sept. 4, 2019 | Dr. Qicheng Zhang | “Quantum Valley Hall Edge States from Strain Induced Layer Stacking Walls in CVD Bilayer Graphene” | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Sept. 4, 2019 | Dr. Mengqiang Zhao | “Engineering of 2D Materials beyond Graphene for Energy and Electronic Sensing Applications” | Postdoctoral researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Sept. 6, 2019 | Dr. Jaime A. Gómez | “Plastic or Planet – Everyone’s Responsibility” | President, Society of Plastics Engineers |
| Sept. 25, 2019 | Vikram Bhargava | “Robust Process Design for Injection Molded Parts” | Author of Robust Plastic Product Design: A Holistic Approach |
| Sept. 30, 2019 | Dr. Ming Xiao | “Bio-inspired Non-iridescent Structural Colors” | Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University |
| Sept. 30, 2019 | Dr. Xinyue Liu | “Developing soft living materials to enable convergence of human and machine” | Postdoctoral researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Spring 2015
Location: IMS, room 159 at 1 p.m.
| DATE | NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
| February 4, 2015 | Zhenhua Cui | “White Graphene”: Boron Nitride Nanosheet and Its Applications in Polymeric Composites | UConn Polymer Program |
| February 18, 2015 | Rui Ma | Rational Design of Polymer Dielectrics for Capacitor Applications | UConn Polymer Program |
| March 11, 2015 | Steven Woltornist | Graphene/Polymer Nanocomposites | UConn Chemistry Department |
| March 18, 2015 | Michael Otley | High-Throughput Screening of Electrochromic Polymers Towards Neutral Colors | UConn Chemistry Department |
| April 1, 2015 | Dr. James Loomis, Dr. Yanfei Xu |
Highly Aligned Polyethylene Films for Thermal Management | Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT |
| April 8, 2015 | Joonsung Kim | Towards Controlled Radical Polymerization of VDF | UConn Polymer Program |
| April 15, 2015 | Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy | Advancing Coordination Chemistry in the Functionalization of Surfaces and Gelation | Department of Chemistry, MIT |
| April 22, 2015 | Dr. Teng Zhang, Shaoting Lin, Hyunwoo Yuk | Multi-scale Multi-mechanism Design of Tough Hydrogels: Experiment, Theory and Application. | Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT |
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Fall 2014
September 24: Yujie Liu & Daniel King – UMass Amherst
“Directly Measuring Tensile Stress-Strain Responses of Ultrathin Polymer Films”
“Creating Gecko-like Adhesives for “Real World” Surfaces”
October 15: Dr. Matthew Burdzy – Henkel Corporation
“Innovation at Henkel”
November 5 : Sedef Piril Ertem & Wenxu Zhang– UMass Amherst
“Synthetic Anion Conducting Membranes”
November 19: Gilad Kaufman& Young Woo – Yale University
“Single-step microfluidic fabrication of soft microcapsules by interfacial polyelectrolyte complexation”
“Magnetic Field Induced Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Alignment Dynamics and Its Application for Aligned Nanopores”
November 21: Dr. Gerald Ling – Saint-Gobain
“My Saint-Gobain: A Millennial in Corporate R&D”
Spring 2014
February 12: Xiaokai Li – Yale University
“Carbon/Silicon Hybrid Energy Conversion and Storage Devices”
February 19: Baishali Kanjilal – Polymer Program, Uconn
“Polymeric Membranes for Enrichment of 1,3 Propanediol from Aqueous Binary Solutions and Simulated Fermentation Broths”
March 5: Dr. Michael A. Invernale – Alphachromics, Inc.
“Electrochromic Polymers: Eyewear, Fabric, and Sensors”
March 12: Andre Martinez – Polymer Program, Uconn
“Surface Grafted Polymerization”
March 26: Dr. Vinit Sharma – Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uconn
“Rational Design of All-Organic Polymer Dielectrics”
April 9: Hongwei Xia – Polymer Program, Uconn
“Supramolecular Polymerization of Comb-like Polypeptide and Polypeptide Grafted Nanoparticles”
April 16: Dr. Zilu Wang – Polymer Program, Uconn
“Net Motion of a Charged Macromolecule in Ratchet Slit”
April 23: Jianyu Li and Widusha Illeperuma – Harvard University
“Extremely Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels”
May 7: Xiaoguang Dai – Stevens Institute of Technology,
“Microgel-tethering for nucleic acid-based diagnostics”
Fall 2013
February 6th: Donna Mamangun
“DNA as a Dielectric Material and Dye Matrix”
February 13th: Prashant Deskmukh
“Molecular engineering of side chain liquid crystalline polymer for photonics and well aligned nano porous membrane”
February 20th: Amir Azidi and Isaac Bruss – UMass Amherst
“Parallels between geometry and frustration in curved crystals and twisted bundles”
February 27th: Dr. Adrian Pegoraro and Ming Guo – Harvard University
“Understanding cells as a form of soft matter”
March 13th: Zhe Li
“Something about Glucose Biosensors”
April 3rd: Chetan Hire
“Ceramic condensation using Block-copolymer mimic of silicatein-alpha”