Reika Katsumata received the prestigious PRESTO Award from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The PRESTO award is one of the most distinguished awards for early-career researchers who are either Japanese citizens or... Read More...
Reika Katsumata received the prestigious PRESTO Award from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The PRESTO award is one of the most distinguished awards for early-career researchers who are either Japanese citizens or... Read More...
Di Jia and M. Muthukumar have published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“The significance of the discovery that dipoles drive the assembly of polymers is immense,” says Muthukumar, “... Read More...
Xiaoshuang (June) Wei* and Laura C. Bradley* have recently published their paper entitled, Accessing Thin Film Wetting Regimes During Polymer Growth by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition, in Langmuir. In this work the researchers ... Read More...
Shiva Asapu, James Nicolas Pagaduan,* Ye Zhuo, Taehwan Moon, Rivu Midya, Dawei Gao, Jungmin Lee, Qing Wu, Mark Barnell, Sabyasachi Ganguli, Reika Katsumata,* Yong Chen, Qiangfei Xia, and Jianhua Joshua Yang have published a paper in... Read More...
The PSE Department is delighted to announce the hiring of Professor Steve Granick, who has been nominated for, and will soon be affirmed as, the new Robert Barrett Chair of Polymer Science and Engineering. Granick is a world-renowned... Read More...
Reika Katsumata has received the 2022 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, which recognizes 20 outstanding early-career faculty members from across the nation who were nominated by 3M researchers based on their research accomplishments,... Read More...
Evon S. Petek* and Reika Katsumata* have published a paper in Macromolecules. In this paper, entitled Thickness Dependence of Contact Angles in Multilayered Ultrathin Polymer Films, the wetting behavior of bilayer ultrathin polymer... Read More...
The 2022 ACS Fall Meeting included a symposium in recognition of Tom Russell's profound impact in polymer science. The symposium "Polymer Self-Assembly & Interfaces: Symposium Honoring Thomas P Russell's Career in Polymer Science"... Read More...
A paper by Yan Cong*, Zhaoxia Li*, Pei Bian* and Thomas J. McCarthy* was recently published in Macromolecules. This paper, entitled Isomeric Silicones: Reactive Phenylsilsesquioxane-based MT Resins and Comments Concerning the Structure... Read More...
A paper entitled "Bond strength regime dictates stress relaxation behavior" has just been published in Soft Matter by Ipek Sacligil,* Christopher W. Barney,* Alfred J. Crosby* and Gregory N. Tew*. This work utilizes in situ crosslinked... Read More...
Robert N. Enright* and Laura C. Bradley* have published a paper entitled "Self-Wrinkling Vapor-Deposited Polymer Films with Tunable Patterns" in Advanced Functional Materials. In this work, the authors uncover the origins of self-... Read More...
Jerred Wassgren*, M. Bachir Messikh* and Kenneth R. Carter* have recently published a paper entitled, "Oxidized cellulose nanofibers modified with arginine" in the journal Cellulose. Using a 2-step, water-soluble coupling technique,... Read More...
A paper entitled "Relating the Degree of Nanofiller Functionality to the Glass Transition Temperature and Structure in a Polymer–Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Nanocomposite" was recently published in Macromolecules by Walter W.... Read More...
Brandon R. Clarke* and Gregory N. Tew* have recently published a paper entitled, Bottlebrush Amphiphilic Polymer Co-Networks in Macromolecules. In this work, they synthesize the first bottlebrush amphiphilic polymer co-networks and... Read More...
Christopher W. Barney,* Ipek Sacligil,* Gregory N. Tew,* and Alfred J. Crosby* recently published a paper entitled, "Linking cavitation and fracture to molecular scale structural damage of model networks" in Soft Matter. Needle-induced... Read More...
Abhiram Reddy*, Michael S. Dimitriyev* and Gregory M. Grason* published a new paper entitled, Medial packing and elastic asymmetry stabilize the double-gyroid in block copolymers in Nature Communications. This new theory reshapes our... Read More...
PSE shares a short video of the 2022 doctoral graduates, friends and families.
Khatcher O. Margossian*, Marcel U. Brown*, Todd Emrick* and Murugappan Muthukumar* have published a paper entitled, Coacervation in polyzwitterion-polyelectrolyte systems and their potential applications for gastrointestinal drug... Read More...
James Nicolas Pagaduan,* Sadaki Samitsu, Jordan Varma, Todd Emrick,* and Reika Katsumata recently published an article in ACS Applied Polymer Materials entitled "Freeze-Burn: Fabrication of Porous Carbon Networks via Polymer-Templated... Read More...
The UMass Student Chapter of ACS PMSE/POLY is participating in this year’s UMassGives event on April 28th and 29th! The funds raised through this event will support student groups within PSE that focus on mentoring students throughout... Read More...