Polymer Colloquium Schedule
All colloquia will take place on Thursday from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Olney Science Center room 518 or virtually online via Zoom.
Fall 2021
Date | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Sept. 16 | Prof. Peter Kofinas Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland | “Designing Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries using Water and Ionic Liquids as Plasticizers” | Olney Science Center room 518 |
Sept. 30 | Prof. Sanat Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University | “Novel Grafted Nanoparticle Based Gas Separation Membranes” | Sanat Kumar Polymer Colloquium Zoom Link |
Oct. 14 | Emmanuel Roussakis Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital | “Polymer-Embedded Metalloporphyrin-Based Phosphors: From Synthesis to Biomedical Applications for Sensing Oxygenation" | Olney Science Center room 518 |
Oct. 28 | Prof. Stephan Förster Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Soft Matter and Biological Matter, Forschungszentrum Jülich | “Stabilization and Precise Positioning of Nanoparticles in Polymer-Nanocomposites” | Stephan Förster Polymer Colloquium Zoom Link |
Spring 2021
Date | Speaker | Title & Zoom Link |
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Thursday, Feb. 4 | Prof. Yusuf Yagci Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University, Turkey | “Photochemical Routes for Macromolecular Syntheses” |
Thursday, Feb. 18 | Prof. Cyrille Boyer Department of Chemical Engineering University of New South Wales, Australia | "Seeing the Light: Advancing Macromolecular Synthesis for 3D Printing and Surface Functionalization" |
Thursday, March 4 | Prof. Gil Gonçalves Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Aveiro, Portugal | “Carbon-based Polymer Nanocomposites with High-Performance for Health & the Environment” |
Thursday, March 18 | Prof. Gary Wnek Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering Case Western University | ““Intumescent Flame-Retardant Coatings Based on Poly(acrylic acid) Composition” |
Thursday, April 1 | Prof. George Fytas Institute for Polymer Research Max Planck, Germany | “A Glance to Dynamic Light Spectroscopy Using Selected Applications” |
Thursday, April 15 | Prof. Antonis Mikos Department of Bioengineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rice University | “Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Disease Modeling” |