News Archive 2008

Winter

 

March 21st : Read about Kishore and Xiaofang’s work on “competition between liquid crystallinity and block copolymer self assembly” [Click Here]

March 13th : Congratulations to Kishore for passing his PhD Defence!

February 6th : Read about Bing Li’s work on PEO single crystal templated Au nanoparticle assembly in Macromolecules [Click Here]

Februrary 6th : Bing Li receives Drexel Travel Subsidy

February 2nd : Matt Hood receives Drexel Travel Subsidy

January 23rd : Welcome to our New Webpage!

January 20th : The SRG group welcomes MS/BS Carlos Bahamondes and Robert Ferrier to the group

January 19th : Michael Birnkrant receives Drexel Travel Subsidy

VEECO selects our PVD patterned carbon nanotube image for their 2008 calendar. Our image is being used for the month of March. Click here to see

Spring

 

May 1st : Professor Christopher Li is the recipient of a $300K three-year grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research.  The grant is entitled “Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization, Structure and Morphology.”

April 30th : Congratulations to Matthew Hood for successful completion of his candidacy exam

April 22nd : Matthew Hood is awared “Best Graduate Poster Presentation for Research in Physical Science and Engineering” at Drexel’s Research Day 2008 for his poster entitled “Morphological Control of Segmented Polyurethanes by Tailoring Crystallization of Hard/Soft Segments”

April 20th : We welcome Russell Marron to the group as BS/MS student

April 1st : Kishore Tenneti accepts a position at UTC Power a division of United Technologies. UTC Power is a full-service provider of environmentally advanced power solutions.  With nearly 50 years of experience, UTC Power is a world leader in developing and producing fuel cells for on-site power, transportation, space and defense applications, and a developer of innovative combined cooling, heating and power applications in the distributed energy market.

March 31st : Start of new quarter. Good luck to all!

Summer

 

July 2008 : We welcome Eric Laird to the group as a PhD student

July 2008 : Eric wins NSF-IGERT fellowship! Way to start, Eric!

August 2008 : SRG group enjoyed the Philly ACS meeting!

Fall

 

September 2008 : Dr. Christopher Li  is awarded an NSF grant on PE/Clay composite. (PI: Grace Hsuan, Co-PI Richard Cairncross, Chris Li)

September 2008 : BingBing’s work on Janus Polymer Brush appeared in JACS. Congratulations!

December 2008 : Read about Bingbing’s work on NFSK in Macromolecules.