2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Thin Films, Confinement and Interfaces I: Nanoconfinement through Macromolecular Engineering

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

11:30 AM

(695a) Nanoconfinement Effects on Intermolecular Forces Observed Via Dewetting
Reika Katsumata

12:00 PM

(695b) Controlling Chain Conformation in Amorphous Polymers through Soft Nanoscale Confinement
Xiaoguang Wang

12:15 PM

(695c) Sustainable and Reprocessable Carboxylic Acid-Doped Polyaniline Electroconductive Films with Rapid Environmental Degradation
Arya Ajeev, Colton Duprey, Evan Wujcik

12:30 PM

(695d) Submicron Films of Polymer Blends: Unlocking Macrophase Separation to Enhance Membrane Gas Separation Properties
Narjes Esmaeili, Leiqing Hu, Erda Deng, Vinh Bui, Haiqing Lin

12:45 PM

(695e) Precise Sequence Specific Block Copolymers for Directed Self-Assembly & Co-Design of Lithographic Materials for Patterning
Ali Akman, Christopher J. Eom, Hee Jae Choi, Gervasio Zaldivar, Joshua Mysona, Chris Fry, Juan De Pablo, Paul F. Nealey

01:00 PM

(695f) Robust Control over Interfacial Proton Conductivity Via Self-Assembly of Nature-Inspired Molecules
Oghenetega Allen Obewhere, Shudipto Konika Dishari

01:15 PM

(695g) Confinement and Substrate Effects on the Nanoscale Interfacial Rheology of Glass-Forming Fluids
Bao Ma, David S. Simmons

01:30 PM

(695h) Layered, Block-like Copolymer Films in Under Three Minutes By Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization during Spin Coating
Matthew Vasuta, Zane Parkerson, Joseph T. Lawrence, Abram E. Shea, G. Kane Jennings

01:45 PM

(695i) Nanomechanical Properties of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Ultrathin Films
Masiuddin M. Mohammed, Akhtar Gul, Alamgir Karim, Michael Bockstaller, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski