A paper by Cynthia Bukowski*, Tianren Zhang, Robert A. Riggleman and Alfred J. Crosby* entitled "Load-Bearing Entanglements in Polymer Glasses" was recently published in the Science Advances.
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A paper by Cynthia Bukowski*, Tianren Zhang, Robert A. Riggleman and Alfred J. Crosby* entitled "Load-Bearing Entanglements in Polymer Glasses" was recently published in the Science Advances.
How do entanglements impact thin... Read More...
Research by Nora C. Buggy, Yifeng Du*, Mei-Chen Kuo, Soenke Seifert, Ryan J. Gasvoda, Sumit Agarwal, E. Bryan Coughlin*, and Andrew M. Herring was recently published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. The paper is entitled, "... Read More...
Abhiram Reddy, Xueyan Feng, Edwin Thomas and Greg Grason have published in Macromolecules. The paper entitled, "Block Copolymers beneath the Surface: Measuring and Modeling Complex Morphology at the Subdomain Scale" addresses recent... Read More...
Wuqi Amy Niu,* Sylvia Rivera, Sloan Siegrist, and Maria Santore* just published a paper entitled, "Depletion Forces Drive Reversible Capture of Live Bacteria on Nonadhesive Surfaces" in Soft Matter. Even when surfaces are developed to... Read More...
A paper entitled Complex Coacervation of Polymerized Ionic Liquids in Non-aqueous Solvents was recently published in ACS Polym. Au. by Minjung Lee*, Sarah L. Perry*, and Ryan C. Hayward.* This study provides insight into the effects of... Read More...
Jim Watkins is leading an initiative, with materials partner Pixelligent and Nano-optical and x-ray components manufacturer Moxtek, to advance scalable manufacturing processes that enable commercial fabrication of highly refractive... Read More...
A paper entitiled "Aging of polypropylene random copolymers studied by NMR relaxometry" was published in the journal Polymer by Weiguo Hu* and collaborators Jonathan Cali, Everett Kysor and Olaf Kohlmann. Small changes in PP morphology... Read More...
Autumn M. Mineo,* Maren E. Buck and Reika Katsumata* have recently published a paper entitiled, "Molecular design of polymer coatings capable of photo-triggered stress relaxation via dynamic bond exchange" in the Journal of Polymer... Read More...
A paper entitled Non-Covalent Carrier Hydrophobicity as a Universal Predictor of Intracellular Protein Activity was recently published in Biomacromolecules by Christopher Hango*, Coralie Backlund*, Hazel Davis*, Nicholas Posey*, Lisa... Read More...
Researchers in polymer science and engineering are used to working at the molecular level, but Professor Tom Russell and his former UMass student and current postdoc Paul Kim are helping to take polymer research to the next level: outer... Read More...
Professor Richard Stein, founder of polymer research at UMass, passed away peacefully at his home on June 21. Stein's early foresight and energy were key to the establishment and the rise to prominence of the Polymer Science and... Read More...
Research by Daniel S. Camarda*, Matthew J. Lampe*, Alan J. Lesser*, Philippe Desbois, Klaus Stoll, Claus Gabriel, Rupert Konradi was recently published in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Researchers have fabricated graft... Read More...
Equilibrium Mechanisms of Self-limiting Assembly was recently published in Review of Modern Physics by Michael F. Hagan and Gregory M. Grason*. This is a review of the physical principles of self-limiting assembly in soft matter, which... Read More...
Alexa Kuenstler is in a class of thirteen research fellows to receive over $3.7M funding for 2021. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows in Chemical Sciences, individuals who... Read More...
Xiangxi Meng, Yifeng Du*, Yalin Liu, E. Bryan Coughlin*, Sarah L. Perry, and Jessica D. Schiffman recently published an article entitled, "Electrospinning Fibers from Oligomeric Complex Coacervates: No Chain Entanglements Needed" in... Read More...
PSE shares a short video - pictures of our doctoral graduates, friends and families.
2021 PSE Graduation Celebration Video
The Polymer Science & Engineering 2021 Graduation Celebration to be held Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 PM by Zoom, immediately followed by a social gathering in Gather.town. We invite PSE advisors, students, staff members, technicians... Read More...
Lisa Groth, PSE Main Office and Graduate Program Manager, received an Outstanding Graduate Staff Award from the Graduate School. Lisa was nominated by PSE grad students in appreciation for her hard work and dedication. We are pleased... Read More...
Hyunki Kim*, Subramanian Sundaram, Ji-Hwan Kang, Nabila Tanjeem, Todd Emrick*, and Ryan Hayward* recently published a paper, titled Coupled Oscillation and Spinning of Photothermal Particles in Marangoni Optical Traps, in PNAS. This... Read More...
Near Complete Depolymerization Of Polyesters With Nano-Dispersed Enzymes was recently published in Nature. By nanoscopically dispersing enzymes with deep active sites, Xu, Russell and coworkers have degraded semi-crystalline polyesters... Read More...