2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Thin Films, Confinement and Interfaces II

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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presentations

03:30 PM

(605a) Self-Healing Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for Lithographic Applications
Whitney Loo, Hongbo Feng, Scott Dhuey, Ricardo Ruiz, Paul F. Nealey

04:00 PM

(605b) Improving Interfacial Proton Transport in Ionomer Thin Films for Enhanced Fuel Cell Performance
Oghenetega Obewhere, Karen Acurio, Shudipto K. Dishari

04:30 PM

(605d) Building Reverse Osmosis Films One Monomer at a Time Via Molecular Layer Deposition
Brian Welch, Ruoke Cai, Tamar Segal-Peretz

05:00 PM

(605f) Anomalous Structural Transitions and Gas Transport Properties in Ultrathin Films of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity
Taehoon Lee, Ho Bum Park, Zachary Smith

05:15 PM

(605g) Environmentally Stable and Stretchable Polymer Electronics Enabled By Surface-Tethered Nanostructured Molecular-Level Protection.
Yu Zheng, Zhenan Bao

05:30 PM

(605h) Modulating the Contact Angle between Non-Polar Polymers and SiO2 Nanoparticles
Anirban Majumder, Anne Radzanowski, Ching-Yu Wang, Yijiang Mu, E. Bryan Coughlin, Raymond Gorte, John Vohs, Daeyeon Lee

05:45 PM

(605i) Phase Behavior and Nano-Mechanical Properties of Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles Blends Thin Film
Akhtar Gul, Kshitij Sharma, Abdulmaliq Abdulsalam, Michael Bockstaller, Alamgir Karim