Student and Postdoc Poster Awards
This year we had 85 DPOLY posters! We thank Prof. Charles Schroeder for organizing the poster session and volunteer judges. The best poster award winners, sponsored by NSF-Korea, POSTECH, and Prof. Moon Jeong Park, in alphabetical order are
Mary Mel B Baynosa, Wayne State University
Anisotropic Diffusion of Nanorods within Entangled Polymer Network and Gel (Advisor: Ashis Mukhopadhyay)
David Bujdos, University of Pennsylvania
Slow Kinetics of Confined Diblock Copolymer upon Infiltration into a Bicontinuous, Nanoporous Gold Scaffold (Advisor: Russell Composto)
Jacob Capets, Penn State University
Rapid Self-Healing of Robust Surface-Tethered Covalent Adaptable Coatings (Advisors: Bryan Vogt, Christian Pester)
Cody Hawthorne, Penn State University
A Molecular Dynamics Model of Interfacial Polymerization: Growth and Properties of Polyamide Membranes: (Advisor: Scott T Milner)
Brandon Jeong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Revealing Network Architecture Effects on Semi-Crystalline Polymer Networks (Advisors: Antonia Statt, Alexa S Kuenstler)
Myoeum Kim, University of Virginia
Associative Polymers with Controlled Sticker Placement: How Reversible Bond
Distribution and Density Govern Polymer Dynamics (Advisor: Li-Heng Cai)
Owen Lee, University of Colorado
Heavily Crosslinked Polymerized Ionic Liquid (PIL) Networks for High-Performance Ionic Diodes and Low-Voltage Electroadhesives (Advisor: Ryan Hayward)
Eun Suk Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leveraging the Photoresponse of Azobenzene to Induce Light-Triggered Modulation of Bulk Property Changes in Polymer Networks (Advisors: Antonia Statt, Alexa S Kuenstler)
Amanda Rosario Rivera, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Campus
Nanocapsule Incorporation Strategies to Enhance Polymer Network Properties (Advisor: Danielle J. Mai)
Support
NSF-Korea, POSTECH, and Prof. Moon Park sponsored our winners that included an award certificate. Congratulations to all winners and many thanks to all who presented their work.
