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Site Term  AIChE Academy LaShanda Korley Materials that are found in Nature display a wide range of properties, including responsiveness to the environment, signal transmission, and the ability to adapt to support life. Learning from Nature, biomimetic pr ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Kenneth Carter Nanocellulose is an interesting material with unique properties and chemistry. Cellulose, the structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants, is the most abundant organic material on the planet and be ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Kaushik Bhattacharya Liquid crystal elastomers are rubbery solids with liquid crystal mesogens incorporated into their main chains.  They display an isotropic to nematic phase transformation accompanied by a large spontaneous defo ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Yushan Yan Green hydrogen from wind and solar electricity is necessary to decarbonize certain sectors of our economy that are inaccessible by renewable electricity and it has the potential to reduce more than 30% of the global car ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Deborah Leckband I will present new research that addresses the major challenge of identifying material properties that alter bio-macromolecule folding stability abiotic environments. How proteins interact with materials impacts a ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Lesley Chow Biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering can be functionalized with specific chemistries to direct desired cellular behavior and matrix formation. These scaffolds are typically modified post-fabrication, ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Blair Brettmann Materials with high particle loadings are important for several applications: in many cases the particles provide the desired functionality and the polymer acts to bind them together into a shape, so maximizing par ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Lydia Sosa Vargas Understanding and controlling the energy and charge transport phenomena that occur at the nanoscale, especially at the organic-substrate interface is a key challenge to improve organic optoelectronic devices. Thi ...

Site Term  AIChE Academy Keith Forward The needle or nozzle-based electrospinning process has long been explored for its capability to produce unique nanofiber materials with desirable properties, such as high surface area and high porosity. These materia ...