The 5th Annual Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in Notre Dame’s McCourtney Hall.  This one-day symposium addresses the general synthesis and characterization of synthetic soft materials and their broad application in biomedical fields.
 
This year’s invited speaker is Northwestern’s Professor Nathan Gianneschi, Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Several other faculty researchers from Notre Dame, Purdue, and Illinois will give talks.

In addition to the talks, graduate students and post doctoral fellows are invited to showcase their research results in an afternoon poster session, where prizes will be awarded for the best posters. 

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 6, 2018 • McCourtney Hall Auditorium (Room B01) • University of Notre Dame 

8:15 am	Check-in
	Technical Session 1 • B01 Auditorium
	Presenter	Title of talk
9:10 am	Subhash L. Shinde, Notre Dame Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy)	“ND Energy overview”
9:20 am	Alan Seabaugh, Notre Dame Center for Nano Science & Technology (NDnano)	“NDnano introduction”
	Alan Seabaugh, Notre Dame Electrical Engineering	“Polymer/semiconductor electric double layer devices for computing and memory”
9:45 am	Jianguo Mei, Purdue Chemistry	“Organic electrochromics”
10:10 am	Coffee break
10:30 am	Jennifer Schaefer, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	“Rational design of polymeric barrier layers for metal-sulfur batteries”
10:55 am	Letian Dou, Purdue Chemical Engineering	“Molecular engineering of two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites”
11:20 am	Haifeng Gao, Notre Dame Chemistry & Biochemistry	“Recent progress of new synthetic capacities in the Gao group: From hyperbranched polymer to linear polymer”
11:45 am	Group Photo and Lunch Break
	Technical Session 1 • B01 Auditorium
1:15 pm	Nathan Gianneschi, Northwestern Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering	“Making peptides into medicines: From enzyme-responsive nanomaterials to protein-like polymers”
1:55 pm	Shelby Hutchens, University of Illinois Mechanical Science & Engineering	“Cutting and the failure of hyperelastic polymer networks”
2:20 pm	Donny Hanjaya-Putra, Notre Dame Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering	“Biomaterials to control vascular morphogenesis and thrombosis”
2:45 pm	Chengde Mao, Purdue Chemistry	“Programmed DNA self-assembly”
3:10 pm	Hsueh-Chia Chang, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	“Ionic circuits based on nanoporous polymer membranes and nanopores: A new generation of molecular diagnostics”
3:45 pm	Poster Session
5:45 pm	Poster awards announced; adjourn
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

Notre Dame	Purdue
College of Science	College of Science
Notre Dame Research	Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry	Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	J & K Scientific
Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy)
Center for Nano Science & Technology (NDnano)

QUESTIONS

Please address any questions regarding registration and posters to Heidi Deethardt (deethardt.1@nd.edu). 

Or, for more information on the topics and scope of this symposium, please contact event organizers:

• Notre Dame: Haifeng Gao (hgao@nd.edu) or Matthew Webber (mwebber@nd.edu)
• Purdue: Jianguo Mei (jgmei@purdue.edu)

 

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