2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Crystallization and Semi-Crystalline Polymers

This session focuses on the properties of semi-crystalline polymers, including crystallization kinetics, crystallization from the glassy state, crystallization in confined, multiphase, and structured systems, morphological studies, and structure-property-processing relationships in semi-crystalline polymers. **Note to faculty candidates: please include a note to the session chair during submission to alert them to your status***

Chair

Douglas Tree, Brigham Young University

Co-Chair

Jay Park, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Presentations

12:30 PM

(692a) Effects of Entanglement on Polyethylene Crystal Nucleation and Growth
Wenlin Zhang

01:00 PM

(692b) Clustering and Measurement Methods with Molecular Dynamics Data for Accurate Identification and Tracking of Polymer Melt Crystallization
Elyar Tourani, Brian J. Edwards, Bamin Khomami

01:15 PM

(692c) How Does the Crystallization Phase Behavior of an Oligomer Melt Depend on Molecular Parameters?
Douglas Tree

01:30 PM

(692d) Introducing a “Tetris Model” for Coarse-Grained Simulations of Copolymer Polyethylene Crystallization
Zhiqiang Shen, Jeffrey D. Weinhold, Ronald Larson

01:45 PM

(692e) The Glass Transition and Crystallization of Poly (?-caprolactone) (PCL) Nanofibers Measured By Flash Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Aishorjo Bublee, Nabila Shamim

02:00 PM

(692f) Decrystallization of Semi-Crystalline Polyethylene
Ali Ghasemi, Nicholas Stavinski, Luis Velarde, Paschalis Alexandridis, Marina Tsianou

02:15 PM

(692g) Ice Formation in the Presence of Hydrogels
Shoumik Saha, Dilip Gersappe

02:30 PM

(692h) Effects of Deposition Methods and Solution Treatment on P3HT-Based Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Mengting Sun, Zeyuan Sun, Russell Kim, Yulong Zheng, Aaron L. Liu, James Gilchrist, Elsa Reichmanis

02:45 PM

(692i) Advancing the Knowledge on Semicrystalline Polymers for Hydrogen Storage and Handling.
Omar Atiq, Lorenzo Merlonghi, Riccardo Rea, Eleonora Ricci, Enzo Mangano, Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Maria Grazia De Angelis