For a recap of the 2018 symposium held at Notre Dame, click here.

The Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session will be held Saturday, September 21, from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm at the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (Room 3087) on the Purdue Campus, West Lafayette, Indiana. This one-day symposium addresses the general synthesis and characterization of synthetic soft materials and their broad application. In addition, the symposium will include a graduate student and postdoc poster session starting at 4:00pm. 

REGISTRATION

Symposium registration is now open here. Registration is free due to the generous support of our sponsors. Please register by September 7, 2019, so that we can plan for the provided breakfast and lunch.

CALL FOR POSTERS

In addition to the talks, graduate students and post doctoral fellows are invited to showcase their research results in an afternoon poster session, where awards will be made for the best posters. (Students or faculty will need to cover the cost of poster printing.) Poster presenters can use the link provided above to register their attendance and poster. Please register posters by September 7, 2019.

AGENDA

Saturday, September 21 • Wilmeth Active Learning Center (Room 3087), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

8:30 am	Breakfast and check-in Wilmeth Active Learning Center, outside Room 2087
	Technical Session 1	Chair: Brett Savoie (bsavoie@purdue.edu)
	Presenter	Title
9:20 am	Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University Chemistry	TBA
9:40 am	Joona Bang, Korea University Chemical & Biological Engineering	TBA
10:00 am	Matthew Webber, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Host-guest recognition for functional supramolecular soft materials
10:20 am	Coffee break
10:40 am	Vivek Narsimhan, Purdue University Chemical Engineering	Fluid mechanic studies of droplets with complex interfaces with applications to biology
11:00 am	Ruilan Guo, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	TBA
11:20 am	Pedro E. Ramirez Gonzalez, UASLP Institute of Physics	General framework for the study of dynamical properties and arrested states of ionic liquids
11:40 am	Lunch, Wilmeth Active Learning Center (provided)
	Technical Session 2	Chair: Matthew Webber (mwebber@nd.edu)
1:20 pm	Ken Schweizer, University of Illinois Materials Science & Engineering	TBA
2:00 pm	Jonathan Whitmer, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	TBA
2:20 pm	Jim Caruthers, Purdue University Chemical Engineering	TBA
2:40 pm	Photo (WALC staircase) and poster setup (WALC, Room 3090)
3:20 pm	Chelsea Davis, Purdue University Materials Engineering	Illuminating interfacial mechanics: Coupling microscopy and mechanical testing to understand soft interfaces
3:40 pm	Jennifer Schaefer, Notre Dame Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Nanostructured single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes
4:00 pm	Poster session (WALC, Room 3090)
5:30 pm	Best posters announced

QUESTIONS

Please address any questions regarding registration and posters to Brett Savoie (bsavoie@purdue.edu).

Or, contact event organizers Jianguo Mei (jgmei@purdue.edu), Matthew Webber (mwebber@nd.edu), Haifeng Gao (hgao@nd.edu), and Brett Savoie (bsavoie@purdue.edu) for more information on the topics and scope of this symposium.

SPONSORS

Purdue University

University of Notre Dame:  College of Science, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Notre Dame Research, Center for Nano Science & Technology (NDnano), Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy).
 

Downloads:
2019 Program