2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Thin Films, Confinement and Interfaces II: Confined Transport and Organization in Polymer Systems

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

Chair

Weinan Xu, University of Akron

Co-Chairs

Xiaoguang Wang, The Ohio State University
Nabila Shamim, Prairie View A & M University
Samuel Root, University of California San Diego

Presentations

02:30 PM

(721a) Confined Ion Transport in Self-Assembled Polymers with 1-Nm Scale Pores
Chinedum Osuji

03:00 PM

(721b) The Spatial Distribution of Solvophilic and Solvophobic Repeat Units Directs the Solvent-Selective Swelling Response of Polymer Brushes
Ramya Kumar

03:15 PM

(721c) Glass Transition Behavior of PLGA Nanoparticles in Biological and Aqueous Media
Guangliang Liu, Kathleen McEnnis, Aditya Mohana

03:30 PM

(721d) Interface Engineering in Sublayer Architectures through Advanced 3D Printing
Arunachalam Ramanathan, Kenan Song

03:45 PM

(721e) Enhanced Gas Solubility in Confined Polymers
Kaiwen Wang, Joseph Tapia, Peng Bai, John Vohs, Daeyeon Lee

04:00 PM

(721f) Self-Assembly and Inorganic Hybridization of Ultrathin Isoporous Triblock P4VP-b-PS-b-P4VP Membranes for Liquid Filtration
Beatrice Bellini, Semih Cetindag, Siddhant Iyer, Michele Valsecchi, Xiao Tong, Esther H. R. Tsai, Li Ruipeng, Kim Kisslinger, Aditi Gali, Ashley Head, Alfred Crosby, Sanat Kumar, Gregory Doerk

04:15 PM

(721g) Molecular Simulations of Mikto-Grafted Bottlebrush Surfactants at Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interfaces
Chiraz Toujani, Ivana Herrera, Abelardo Ramirez-Hernandez

04:30 PM

(721h) Characterization of Alginate Gels Deposited in Confined Flow
Barrett Smith, Sara Hashmi

04:45 PM

(721i) Disordered Hyperuniformity and Entropic Phase Separation in Polymer Grafted Nanoparticle Thin Films
Alamgir Karim, Akhtar Gul, Michael Bockstaller, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Rongguan Yin, Jack F. Douglas, Jirameth Tarnsangpradit, Masiuddin M. Mohammed