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Spring 2013 Seminar Series

Erin Koos– Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

"Capillary Suspensions: How a Small Amount of Liquid Can Make a Huge Difference"

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

2:00 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

Frank Schreiber– Universitaet Tuebingen*

"Understanding Protein Solutions: Aggregation, Crystallization, Adsorption, and Diffusion"

Thursday, March 21, 2013

1:30 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

*This seminar is being co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and the Center for Neutron Science.

Jan Vermant– K. U. Leuven

"A Simple Route to Graphene Oxide Frameworks"

Thursday, April 18, 2013

2:30 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

Christopher Wirth– K. U. Leuven

Electrolyte Dependent 2D Assembly of Colloidal Particles on a Planar Electrode

Monday, May 6, 2013

2:00 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

Yue Wu– Purdue University

Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery

Thursday, May 9, 2013

2:30 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

Patrick Spicer– University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

"Stimulus-Responsive Endoskeleton Droplets"

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

2:00 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

Ulf Olsson– Lund University, Sweden*

"Shear Induced Multi-Lamellar Vesicles in a Nonionic Surfactant Lamellar Phase"

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

3:00 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

*This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Neutron Science.

Seth Fraden– Brandeis University

"Materials Morphogenesis"

Thursday, May 23, 2013

2:30 p.m.

366 Colburn Lab

 

Fall 2012 Seminar Series

David Pine– New York University

"Colloids with Directional Interactions"

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Yatin Gokarn– Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

"Good Proteins, Bad Environment: The Role of Ions in Modulating Protein Behavior in Dilute Salt Solutions"

Thursday, October 25, 2012


Spring 2012 Seminar Series

George Fytas– University of Crete

"High Frequency Soft Phononics"

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Kenneth Schweizer– University of Illinois*

"Slow Dynamics in Soft Materials: From Nanoparticle Diffusion in Polymer Melts to Viscolelasticity and Kinetic Arrest in Dense Colloidal Suspensions"

Thursday, February 23, 2012

*This seminar was co-sponsored by the Department of Materials Science & Engineering.

Andrew Dove– University of Warwick

"Functionalization and Self-Assembly of Degradable Polymers"

Monday, March 5, 2012

Sibani Lisa Biswal– Rice University

"Directed Collooidal Assembly Using Magnetic Fields and DNA"

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Jeff Meth– DuPont Central Research & Development

"The Development of Filler Structure in Colloidal Silica - Polymer Nanocomposites"

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

 

Fall 2011 Seminar Series

Silke Rathgeber– University of Koblenz-Landau

"Structure and Dynamics of Driven Soft Matter"

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Heinrich Jaeger– University of Chicago

"Walking on Oobleck?"

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Raymond Tu– The City College of New York

"Periodically Sequenced Peptides: A New Tool for Nanoscale Materials Synthesis"

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Xin Bain– TU Munchen, Germany

"Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulation of Colloidal Suspension"

Thursday, November 10, 2011

David Burris– University of Delaware

"In-Situ Studies of Cartilage Microtribology as a Novel Route to Study OA"

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Bart van Bruggen– K. U. Leuven

"Pervaporation and other Membrane Technologies"

Friday, December 2, 2011

LaShanda Korley– Case Western University

"Mechanically-Tunable Materials Inspired From Nature"

Thursday, December 15, 2011

 


Spring 2011 Seminar Series

James Gilchrist– Lehigh University

"Tuning 2D and 3D Hard-Sphere Suspension Microstructure"

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

George Petekidis– University of Crete

"Rheology and Microscopic Dynamics of Colloidal Glasses Under Shear"

Friday, March 18, 2011

John Katsaras– Oak Ridge National Laboratory

"Neutrons and their Application to Biomimetic Systems"

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

This seminar was co-sponsored by the Center for Neutron Science.

Amalie frischknecht - sandia national laboratories

"Modeling Polymer Nanocomposites"

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

 

Fall 2010 Seminar Series

Ramón Castaneda-Priego – University of Guanajuato

"Colloids in Confinement and Under Periodic Substrates"

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

This seminar was co-sponsored by the Department of Physics & Astronomy.

H. Henning Winter – National Science Foundation

"Rheological Study of the Structural Ripening of a Nano-Composite Soft Glass"

Monday, October 4, 2010

Gerhard Nagele – Institute of Solid State Research (iff)

"Dynamics in Concentrated Suspensions of Charged and Porous Particles: Theory, Simulation and Experiment"

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

This seminar was co-sponsored by the Center for Neutron Science..

Suzanne Fielding – University of Durham

"Shear Banding in Complex Fluids and Soft Glasses"

Monday, November 1, 2010

This seminar was co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Rachel O'Reilly – The University of Warwick

"Designer Functional Polymeric Nanostructures"

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Jodie lutkenhaus – texas a&M university

"Effects of Confinement on the Thermal Properties of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers"

Monday, December 6, 2010



Past Seminars

Franziska Gröhn– University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

"Responsive Polymer Nano-Assemblies through Electrostatic Self-Assembly"

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Matthew Wasbrough– National Institute of Standards & Technology

"Mesostructured Polymer/Surfactant Hydrogel Films for Encapsulation and Release"

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

*This seminar was co-sponsored by the Center for Neutron Science.

Kyung Hyun Ahn– Seoul National University

"What We Really Have to Know about Materials Processing"

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Walter Richtering– RWTH Aachen University

"Microgels as 'Smart' Ingredients in Composite Hydrogels and Pickering Emulsions"

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Yoshiyuki Komoda – Kobe University

"Drying and Structure Formation of Thin Film from Suspension"

Friday, July 29, 2011

Chongyoup Kim – Korea University

"Migration of Particles in Non-Homogeneous Flows of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids"

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Giuseppe Battaglia – The University of Sheffield

"Nano Structured Biomaterials via Water-Bourne Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers"

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

patrick hopkins – sandia national laboratories

"Controlling Thermal Transport on the Nanoscale Via Phonon Scattering at Interfaces"

Monday, June 13, 2011

James W. Swan– California Institute of Technology

"Dispersions Beneath the Continuum Limit: Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Suspension Properties"

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

magdaleno medina noyola – universidad autonoma de san luis potosi

"Irreversible Processes, Glass Transition, and Aging in Colloidal Suspensions"

Friday, August 6, 2010

jeremy fowler–The univeristy of virginia

"Impact of Diblock Copolymers on Droplet Emulsification in Immiscible Homopolymer Blends"

Monday, June 14, 2010

Jan Vermant – K.U. Leuven

"Bacterial Swarming: Socio Microbiology or Hydrodynamics?"

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Jonathan Howse – The University of Sheffield

"Self-Assembled Phoretic Swimmers"

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Alejandro Rey – McGill University

"Liquid Crystal Models of Biological Materials and Processes"

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Todd Squires – University of California, Santa Barbara

"Surface Conduction and its Consequences for Electro-Osmosis and Electrophoresis"

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Szu-wen Wang – University of California, Irvine

"Engineering Self-Assembly and Tailored Functionality in Bio-Inspired Materials"

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Les Woodcock – The University of manchester

"Quasi-Thermodynamics of Powders Behaving Like Liquids"

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Jun Mo Kim – University of Tennessee

“Multi-Scale Simulation of Linear, Short-Chain Polyethylene Liquids Under Flow Conditions”

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Nupur Dutta – University of Virginia

"Nanoparticle Stability in Semidilute and Concentrated Polymer Solutions"

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Whirang Cho – Seoul National University

“Structural and Orientaiton Control of Porous Inorganic-organic Hybrids in Bulk and Thin Films”

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Dganit Danino – Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

“Insight into Chiral Self-Assembly of Biologically-Inspired Amphiphiles into Ribbons and Nanotubes”

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Cancelled Due to Weather

John Bishop – Register Group, Princeton University

Novel Polymers and Block Copolymers from Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir – University of Delaware

Growth, dynamics, and texture modeling of the lamellar smectic-A liquid crystalline transition

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Nicos S. Martys – National Institute of Standards and Technology

“Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start-Up Flow of Colloidal Suspensions”

Wednesday, January 20, 2010


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