2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Thin Films, Confinement and Interfaces I

This session will focus on the properties of polymeric materials in ultrathin film and other confining geometries and environments. Theoretical, computational, and experimental papers are welcome. ***Note to faculty candidates: please include a note to the session chair during submission to alert them to your status***

Chair

Co-Chairs

Nabila Shamim, Prairie View A & M University
Gabriel Burks, University of Notre Dame

Presentations

12:30 PM

(544a) The Glass Transition and Polymerization in Nanoconfined Systems
Sindee Simon

01:00 PM

(544b) Effect of Functionalized POSS on the Structure and Properties of Polymer Thin Films
Abdulmaliq Abdulsalam, Akhtar Gul, Jerrod Henderson, Alamgir Karim

01:15 PM

(544c) Plenty of Room at the Interface: Multi-Scale Insights into Nm-Resolution Polymer Pattern Chemistries
Anni Shi, Shelley Claridge

01:30 PM

(544d) Simultaneous Spin Coating and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization for the Rapid Synthesis of Polymer Films
Zane Parkerson, Liudmyla Prozorovska, Matthew Vasuta, Tyler Oddo, G. Kane Jennings

01:45 PM

(544e) 2-Ethylhexyl Acrylate Comonomer Units Eliminate the Free-Surface-Induced Tg-Confinement Effect in Polymer Films and Provides Robust Self-Healing of Polymer Interfaces
John Torkelson

02:15 PM

(544g) A Synthetic Approach for the Fabrication of Responsive Polymer Thin Films By Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization during Spin Coating
Allison Cordova-Huaman, G. Kane Jennings

02:30 PM

(544h) Influence of Copolymer Design and Doping Method on Electrical Conductivity of Conjugated Copolymer Thin Films
S. Michael Kilbey, Abigail Linhart

02:45 PM

(544i) Effect of Surface Stress on Adhesion of Rough Elastomers
Anand Jagota, Preetika Karnal, Chung-Yuen Hui