PhD student Aliaksei Aliakseyeu’s research was recently accepted to Macromolecular Rapid Communications! The article, titled “Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Star Polymers“, sheds light on the formation of hydrogen-bonded interpolymer complexes between linear and star polymers. It will be available to read soon.

Congratulations, Aliaksei!

PhD student Diana Al Husseini presented at this week’s Graduate Student & Postdoc Research Seminar. Her seminar was over her work on “All-Nanoparticle Surface Functionalization for Mid-Infrared On-Chip Sensing”.

 

Jordan Brito was selected to receive a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Congratulations, Jordan!

PhD student Diana Al Husseini’s research was recently accepted to Coatings! The article, titled “Surface Functionalization Utilizing Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Evanescent-Field Mid-Infrared Waveguide Gas Sensing“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Diana!

PhD student Aliaksei Aliakseyeu’s research was recently accepted to Soft Matter! The article, titled “Selective Hydrogen Bonding Controls Temperature Response of Layer-by-Layer Upper Critical Solution Temperature Micellar Assemblies“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Alex!

Victoria Albright’s research was recently published in Biomaterials! The article, titled “Polyphosphazenes Enable Durable, Hemocompatible, Highly Efficient Antibacterial Coatings“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Victoria!

PhD candidate Raman Hlushko’s poster presentation won 3rd place at the recent APTEC Symposium! He presented his poster, titled “Synthesis and Temperature Response of Star Polymers: Role of Molecular Architecture and a Small Molecule Competitor”, at the APTEC 8th Annual Research Symposium on Nov. 6, 2020.

Congratulations, Raman!

Diana Al Husseini’s research has been published in Chemical Communications. The article, titled “All-Nanoparticle Layer-by-layer Coatings for Mid-IR On-Chip Gas Sensing“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Diana!

Qing and Zhen’s recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials is featured in another popular news site, The Economist!

Read the article published on the Economist here.

Congratulations to Hanna Hlushko for successfully defending her dissertation! Dr. Hlushko earned her degree based on her work on “Synthetic Polymeric Antioxidants: Redox Properties, Metal Binding, and Anticorrosion Performance”.