Collapsible dog bowls, bendable medical tubes and drinking straws all seem to work on a common principle, snapping into a variety of mechanically stable and useful states. Despite the many applications for such “designer matter”... Read More...
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News
Formation of Frank–Kasper phases in soft matter systems confounds intuitive notions that equilibrium states achieve maximal symmetry, deriving from the conflict between symmetry of spherical domains and uniform space filling. A new... Read More...
Maria Santore and Sarah Perry (of Chemical Engineering) have received a 3-year $357,000 NSF grant to create complex coacervates that incorporate nano- and microparticles. Charged particles have not previously been integrated through... Read More...
Professor Maria Santore was recently awarded ~$ 1M by the National Science Foundation to lead a 3-year program focusing on communication between bacteria and electronic devices based on tactile two-way interactions. Along with Sloan... Read More...
The U.S. Department of Education has recently awarded the Polymer Science and Engineering Department a three year Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant totaling $950,000. The funds will be used by PSE to continue... Read More...
Ryan Hayward has been elected a 2018 APS Fellow (American Physical Society) by the Division of Polymer Physics for developing innovative approaches to control the structure and properties of polymeric materials through processes of... Read More...
After working in industry for two years, Andrew Davis, PhD '14 was hired as a polymer chemist in the Library of Congress’s Preservation Research & Testing Division.
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M. Muthukumar has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health of $1.4 million for four years for a research project entitled, "Computational Design Engine for Accurate and Efficient Sequencing of DNA and RNA"
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Prof. Coughlin has been elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He will be recognized for this achievement at the upcoming ACS Meeting in Boston at both the ACS Fellows Award Ceremony on Monday August 20, and again at the... Read More...
A study by Greg Grason and collaborators Andreea Panaitescu and Arshad Kudrolli at Clarke University was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2018 issue of Physical Review Letters. Tomographic experiments probe the evolution of 3D... Read More...
Di Jia and M. Muthukumar Report Unexpected New Dynamics for Large DNA Molecules in Liquid Suspension
The discovery by Di Jia and M. Muthukumar of a novel topologically frustrated dynamical state of DNA and other charged macromolecules inside a hydrogel is published in Nature Communications, 9, 2248 (2018). The origin of this state lies... Read More...
Brendan Ondra received the 2018-19 Failure Analysis and Prevention Special Interest Group (FAPSIG) Award. This award was given at the SPE ANTEC Meeting in Orlando, FL in May of this year.
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Emrick group member Liz Stubbs received a best poster award for her poster entitled Functional Deoxybenzoin Monomers and Polymers at the FLAME 2018 - 29th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials... Read More...
The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced this week that polymer scientist and chemical engineer Ryan Hayward has been named a finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards in the physical... Read More...
Investigators in the Santore lab have patented a multifunctional platform that can selectively capture bacteria from a complex fluid (such as food or blood) and, after a period of minutes to hours during which the bacteria could be... Read More...
Alexa Kuenstler received the 3rd prize in the DPOLY poster competition at the recent APS March Meeting in Los Angeles for her poster entitled “Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposites for Dynamic Optical Materials.”
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The Office of Naval Research has awarded Hayward as lead investigator and a team of researchers at UMass Amherst, the University of California, Riverside, Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Kent State... Read More...
Robert Enright of the Bradley Group received the 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Award for his research entitled “Bottom-Up Processing of Polymer Thin Films in 3D.” This award provides three years of graduate research support.
Hongbo Fu from the Crosby Group and Le Zhou from the Emrick Group are the 2017-2018 PPG Foundation Fellowship recipients. This award provides funding towards salary and tuition costs to a PSE graduate student in the early stages of... Read More...
Professor Laura Bradley received the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award for her work developing "Universal Encapsulants: Depletant-Meditated Self-Assembly of Clickable Capsules."