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Chemistry in Lithography cover

Chemistry and Lithography, 2nd ed., Vol. 2: Chemistry in Lithography is a book written by PSE Professor Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu and was published by SPIE Press Monograph. This book is the second in a series of three volumes that make up... Read More...

September 1, 2023
copper electrowetting valves

Research by Xiyu Hu*, Xiaoshuang Wei*, Aditi R Naik*, Laura C Bradley* and James J Watkins* was recently published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. In this work, "Rapid scalable fabrication of stable copper electrowetting valves", a ... Read More...

August 23, 2023
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Copolymers with varying compositions of catechol methacrylate, MPC, and MAA were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to form antifouling coatings on glass and hydroxyapatite. In the presence of dopamine, thin coatings (∼10 nm)... Read More...

July 30, 2023
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Research by Hong-Gyu Seong*, Zachary Fink*, Zhan Chen*, Todd Emrick* and Thomas P. Russell*, entitled "Bottlebrush Polymers at Liquid Interfaces: Assembly Dynamics, Mechanical Properties, and All-Liquid Printed Constructs", was recently... Read More...

July 30, 2023
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A paper entitled, "Sintering evolution monitoring of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene," was recently published by Ying Zhou*, Takuya Ohnishi and Alan Lesser* in the Journal of Polymer Science. An in-situ density evolution is... Read More...

July 25, 2023
Melody Morris photo

PSE is pleased to announce the hire of Melody Morris as Assistant Professor starting September 1, 2023. The Morris group will engineer sustainable macromolecules using accessible automation.

July 5, 2023
Langmuir Cover art

 

Research by Zhou Xu, Alexander Gamble, Wuqi Amy Niu*, Morgan N. Smith*, Sloan Siegrist, Mark Tuominen and Maria M. Santore* was recently published in Langmuir. In this work the authors present a novel depletion-based... Read More...

May 26, 2023
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Reika Katsumata has been selected to one of the ACS PMSE 2023 Early Stage Investigators, which is based on research innovation and productivity as an independent research investigator, along with teaching and service. Katsumata will... Read More...

May 5, 2023
President Houkin in Crosby Group Lab

 

It was a great honor to host President Houkin and his delegation from Hokkaido University in our labs. We discussed our strong history of collaboration, especially with Professor Jian Ping Gong. We are especially grateful for... Read More...

May 1, 2023
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Work by Mingqiu Hu*, Xindi Li, William T. Heller, Wim Bras, Javid Rzayev, and Thomas P. Russell* was recently published in Macromolecules. In this work, researchers used grazing-incidence small-angle neutron scattering (GISANS) to probe... Read More...

April 12, 2023
Ben Greenvall photo

Benjamin Greenvall, Grason Group member,  has been selected to receive a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This NSF GRFP Fellowship offers three years of support.

“Being chosen as a NSF Graduate... Read More...

March 29, 2023
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"The material is tailored to beginning graduate students, and the author's style gently captures the mathematical sophistication required, while never losing sight of the underlying physics. This book represents the first comprehensive... Read More...

March 29, 2023
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Douglas Hall, Mark Stevens and Greg Grason have recently published an article in Soft Matter entitled, "Building blocks of non-Euclidean ribbons: Size-controlled self-assembly via discrete frustrated particles". Geometric frustration... Read More...

February 12, 2023
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Le Zhou, Zhefei Yang, James Nicolas Pagaduan, and Todd Emrick recently published a paper in Polymer Chemistry. In this work, researchers described the behavior of fluorinated zwitterionic polymers with unusually large contact angle... Read More...

January 12, 2023
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Claire Senger*, Xiao Fan, James Nicolas Pagaduan*, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jinglei Ping and Reika Katsumata* publish a paper in the journal Small entitled 'Defect Healing in Graphene via Rapid Thermal Annealing with Polymeric "Nanobandage"'.... Read More...

January 12, 2023
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Research by Evon S. Petek* and Reika Katsumata* was recently published in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.  In this paper, a review of contact angle and surface energy measurements for thin polymer films revealed that the critical... Read More...

December 28, 2022
Mesoscale polymer surfactants research image

Research by Zhefei Yang*, Deborah Snyder*, James Nicolas Pagaduan*, Abraham Waldman* Alfred J. Crosby*, and Todd Emrick* was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In this paper, researchers reported a... Read More...

December 28, 2022
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Pei Bian* and Thomas J. McCarthy* recently published a paper in ACS Macro Letters entitled, Hemisilicone Elastomers that are Recyclable to the Monomer. In this research, the linear polymer, –(SiMe2–O–SiMe2–CH2CH2)n–, which can be... Read More...

November 23, 2022
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Brandon R. Clarke*, Hyemin Kim*, Mark Ilton, James J. Watkins*, Alfred J. Crosby*, and Gregory N. Tew* have published a paper in Macromolecules entitled The Impact of Polymerization Chemistry on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(... Read More...

November 16, 2022
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Yifeng Du,* Yuhui Du,* Stefano Lazzari, Tom Reimers,* Rupert Konradi, Thomas W. Holcombe and E. Bryan Coughlin* published their research in the journal Polymer Chemistry.  This paper is entitled, "Mechanistic investigation of cyclic... Read More...

November 14, 2022

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