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Research by Kaikai Zheng*, Shankar Ghosh* and Steve Granick* was recently published in PNAS. Studying translucent materials, researchers discover an additional energy transfer path - internal radiation, which presents exceptions of... Read More...

March 18, 2024
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Dipankar Saha*, Hsin-Jung Yu*, Jiacheng Wang, Prateek*, Xiaobo Chen, Chaoyun Tang, Claire Senger*, James Nicolas Pagaduan*, Reika Katsumata*, Kenneth R. Carter*, Guangwen Zhou, Peng Bai, Nianqiang Wu, and James J. Watkins* just... Read More...

March 8, 2024
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Research by Alex McGlasson* and Thomas P. Russell* was recently published in Materials Today.  The paper is entitled, "From solid surfactants to micromotors: An overview of the synthesis and applications of heterogeneous particles." In... Read More...

March 4, 2024
Reika Katsumata ACS Au Polymers Rising Star 2023

Reika Katsumata is recognized as one of the 2023 ACS Polymers Au Rising Stars in Polymers!  ACS Polymers Au notes that, in her research, Professor Katsumata is as "aspiring to redefine size effects, the goal is to establish universal... Read More...

February 28, 2024
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Research by Brandon R. Clarke* and Gregory N. Tew* was recently published in the Journal of Polymer Science. The paper is entitled, "Programming Mechanical Properties through Encoded Network Topologies." This review highlights the Tew... Read More...

January 24, 2024
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Research by Krishnamurthy Munusamy*, Chien-Han Chen,* and Todd Emrick* was recently published in Macromolecules. This paper is entitled, "Alkyne-Substituted Deoxybenzoins as Precursors to Cycloaddition Chemistry and the Preparation of... Read More...

January 18, 2024
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The paper entitled, "On the Interfacial Assembly of Anisotropic Amphiphilic Janus particles was recently published by Alex McGlasson*, Eva Morgenthaler*, Laura C. Bradley* and Thomas P. Russell*  in Advanced Functional Materials. In... Read More...

December 18, 2023
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Research by James Nicolas Pagaduan,* Ayush Bhardwaj,* Tailynn Y. McCarty, Stephan Kraemer, Cathal J. Kearney, James J. Watkins,* Todd Emrick,* and Reika Katsumata* was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials. In this paper, ... Read More...

December 15, 2023
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Zachary Fink*, Xuefei Wu, Paul Y. Kim, Alex McGlasson*, Maged Abdelsamie, Todd Emrick*, Carolin M. Sutter-Fella, Paul D. Ashby, Brett A. Helms, Thomas P. Russell*. This work studies the in-situ in-plane packing of nanoparticle mixtures... Read More...

November 25, 2023
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A paper was recently published by D. Wang, L. He, Y. Wu, Y. Li, W. Hu*, T. Ma, S. Luo, J. Song, W. Sun and G. Zhang in Cement and Concrete Composites. This research describes a novel class of hybrid organogeopolymers with tunable... Read More...

November 18, 2023
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Research entitled "Network Constitutional Isomers" was recently published by Brandon R Clarke* and Gregory N. Tew* in Macromolecules. Using simple variation of catalyst concentration we alter the topology of networks, introducing... Read More...

November 12, 2023
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"Seriously non-thermal thermodynamics" was recently published by Tian Huang*, Qi Pan* and Steve Granick* in Nature Materials. It's a News and Views about non-equilibrium thermodynamics that describes activity-stabilized mixed states in... Read More...

November 1, 2023
Watkins with Grant Award

Within a year, students and researchers in a laboratory at the University of Massachusetts will begin using a nanoimprint lithography tool to craft metal lenses in what will be the first open access facility in the country for the... Read More...

October 26, 2023
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Research by Nick Hackney*, Chris Amey and Greg Grason* was recently published in Physical Review X. In this work, a new minimal model of geometrically frustrated assembly maps out equilibrium phase space and demonstrates existence of... Read More...

October 26, 2023
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Block Copolymers at Homopolymer Interfaces: Conformation and Compatibilization is a recent paper published in Macromolecules. In this work by Zhan Chen,* Christian Steinmetz,* Mingqiu Hu,* E. Bryan Coughlin,* Hanyu Wang, William T.... Read More...

October 26, 2023
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Quantitative X-ray scattering and reflectivity measurements of polymer thin films with 2D detectors was recently published in the Journal of Polymer Science. In this publication by Mingqiu Hu*, Xuchen Gan*, Zhan Chen*, Hong-Gyu Seong*,... Read More...

October 26, 2023
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Thanks to a complex mathematical algorithm, these plastic shapes follow a very specific route as they roll. In fact, researchers have shown that a shape can be designed to follow almost any path you can think of. What started out as... Read More...

October 11, 2023
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Smart Droplets Stabilized by Designer Surfactants: From Biomimicry to Active Motion to Materials Healing was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials by Zhefei Yang*, Deborah Snyder*, Ashlin Sathyan*, Anna Balazs and Todd... Read More...

September 26, 2023
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Research by Yuhui Du,* Yang Yang, Peter Deglmann, Thomas W. Holcombe, Yifeng Du* and E. Bryan Coughlin* was recently published entitled, "Competition between radical copolymerization and charge separation of cyclic ketene acetals and... Read More...

September 23, 2023
Al Crosby - New PSE Department Head
We are happy to welcome Al Crosby as the new Department Head of Polymer Science & Engineering. Al has been a member of the PSE faculty since 2002, and he has led a research program focused on bioinspired materials mechanics. He and his... Read More...
September 3, 2023

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