PhD Graduate Students:

  • Lalitkumar Bansal (05, co-advisor, America Fujikura Ltd), “Development of a Fiber Optic Chemical Sensor for Detection of Toxic Vapors”
  • Lingyu Li (07, Dow Chemical). “Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization: Structure, Properties and Applications”
  • Donia S. El-Khamy (07, General Electric Company), “Alternate Twist Ply Yarn Technology”
  • Kishore Tenneti (08, UTC power, a fuel cell division of United Technologies Corporation), “Hierarchical Nanostructures Formed by Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers”
  • Michael Birnkrant (09, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NRC post-doc fellow, currently at UTC power), “Combining Holographic Patterning and Block Copolymer Self-assembly to Fabricate Hierarchical Volume Gratings”.
  • Bing Li (10, Honeywell International Inc., currently at Balchem Corp.), “Exploiting Semi-crystalline Polymer Single Crystals to Assemble and Functionalize Nanomaterialsg”.
  • Mathew Hood (11, Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, post-doc), “Correlating the Structure and Properties of Highly Plastic Segmented Polyurethane Nanocomposites Containing Low Silicon Dioxide Filler Weight Fractions”.
  • Eric Laird (13, Army Research Lab) “Versatile Membranes Enabled by the Controlled Crystallization of Polymers from Carbon Nanotube Sidewalls”
  • Xi (Rebecca) Chen, (13, Johnson & Johnson) “Design, Synthesize and Characterize Hierarchically Ordered Nanofibers (NFSKs) for Biomimetic Mineralization”
  • Shan Cheng (14, B&D Diagnostics-Preanalytical Systems) “Ion Transport in Semicrystalline Solid Polymer Electrolytes”
  • Wenda Wang (15, Princeton University, Post-doc) “Polymer Crystallization at Curved Liquid/Liquid Interface”
  • Tian Zhou (15, SACO Polymers) “Controlled Synthesis of Polymer Brushes via Polymer Single Crystal”
  • Derrick Smith (16, Merck) “Nanostructure Effect on Conductivity and Li SEI and dendrite Stability”
  • Hao Qi (17, Amogen) “Interface-Directed Polymer Crystallization”
  • Gabriel Burks (18, UIUC), “Poly (Vinylidene Fluoride): Crystalline structure, morphology, and conversation to exotic carbon nanomaterials”
  • Shan Mei (19, Tsinghua University) “Polymer Brushes Derived from Polymer Single Crystals: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications” Tsinghua University
  • Sarah Gleeson (20, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) “Directing Biomimetic Morphology and Mineralization of Nanofiber Shish-Kebabs”
  • Tony Yu (20) “Chondroitin Sulfate Conjugated Nanofiber Shish Kebabs as Biomimetic Bone Template”
  • Yongwei Zheng (20, Romeo Power), Network-based Solid Polymer Electrolytes (SPEs) for Lithium Metal Batteries (LMBs) and Beyond
  • Mark Staub (22, TA Instrument), Structure and Properties of Advanced Polymeric Particles Templated by MiniemulsionCrystallization
  • Jeffrey Wilk (23) Polymer Brushes from and to Polymer Crystals: Harnessing the Conformational Similarity
  • Qian Qian (23, Wanhua Chemical Inc.) The Formation of One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Poly(L-Lactic Acid) Crystals via Evaporative Crystallization on Water Surface

 

MS Students:

  • Doug Dillon (06, Arkema Inc.), “Effect of Organic Modifier and Preparation Method on the Morphology and Crystalline Structure of Poly(vinylideneflouride)-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites”.
  • Stephen Kodjie (06, Dow Chemical), “Morphology and structure of semicrystalline polymer/carbon nanotube nanocomposites”.
  • David Steinmetz (07, Max Planck Institute, co-advisor)
  • Carlos Bahamondes (09, UPenn Graduate school), “Densely-aligned carbon nanotube monolayered films: synthesis, architecture, and applications”.
  • Robert Ferrier (09, UPenn Graduate school), “Polymer Crystal Templated Janus Magnetic Nanoparticles”.
  • Russell Marron (09, Army), “Multifunctional Photonic Crystals via Interference Lithography”.
  • David Miller (11), “Use of Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Single Crystals as a Support for Nanoparticle Catalysts”.
  • Derrick Smith (11, Drexel PhD program), “Morphology and Anisotropic Ionic Conductivity Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide)-Lithium Salt Holographic Polymer Dispersed Electrolyte Volume Gratings”.
  • Hang Kuen Lau (12, Univ. Del, graduate school), “Polycaprolactone Single Crystal with Silica Composite Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Enhance Mechanical Property and Swelling Behavior”.
  • Nathan Wald (12, Johnson & Johnson), “Poly(Ethylene Oxide)/ Cellulose-NanocrystalNanocomposites as Polymer Electrolyte Membranes”.
  • Nasreen Khan (13, Teracycle), “Hierarchically Ordered Polymer Nanofibers for Biomimetic Applications”.
  • Lucas Amspacher (13, DuPont), “Interfacial Engineering for Polymer Nano-Composites with Tailored Properties”.
  • Brittany Gallagher (15, Gore), “Nanoparticle-Containing Hybrid Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Using Holographic Polymerization”
  • Kevin Bazzel (16) “Holographically Polymerized Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Network As Solid Polymer Electrolytes”
  • Ziyin Huang (16, Northwestern Univeristy, PhD program) “Plasticizing Network Based Solid Polymer Electroytes”
  • Angelica Connor (17, GaTech, PhD program) “PVDF Nanofiber and Nanofiber Shish Kebabs”
  • Xiting Liu (17, BD) “Crystallization of Molecular Brushes”
  • Qian Qian (18) “Surface treatment of 3D printed scaffolds”
  • Charles Griffith (20, Boeing) “Investigating the Effect of Sonication Power on the Formation and Structure of Crystalsomes”
  • Carl Furner (23, Drexel) “Polymer Brushes from and to Polymer Crystals: Harnessing the Conformational Similarity”

Post-docs/ visiting scientists:

Dr. Xiaowei Li (17-20), Dr. Qing Xie (19), Dr. Jiefu Li, (2018), Dr. Lingfeng Gao (18-19), Dr. Xiaohua Chang (18), Dr. Qiwei Pan (14-17, South China University of Technology)Dr. Feng Zhou (17, Soochow University), Dr. Weichun Huang (16-17, Soochow University), Dr. Weiwei Li, (14-15, Ningbo University),  Prof. Jingrong Wang (14-15, Shanghai Tech University), Dr. Shijun Wang (13-15), Dr. Bin Dong (09-12, Professor, Soochow Univ.), Dr. BingBing Wang (06-09, Purdue Univ.); Dr. Xiaofang Chen (05, Professor, Soochow University), Prof. Jie Xiong (07, Professor, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University), Dr. Jiefeng Gao (12), Prof. Haiqing Liu (13-14, Professor, Fujian Normal University),  Prof. Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa (13, Madrid Technical University), Prof. Jinghui Yang (13, Southwest Jiaotong University).

 

Undergraduate Students:

Senior Design: Vincent Ferguson, (S/03), Arvid Gifford (dropped out due to health problem), Kelly VandenBosche  (06/05), Benjamin Gillespie (06/06, US Patent Office), Jonathan Hopley (06/06), Cristin Yavorsky (06/07, DuPont), Young Ham (06/07), David Althouse (06/09, Arkema), Molly Stewart (06/09,Teleflex), Garrett Pritchyk (06/11) Daniel Quinn* (14), David Giambri* (14), Yunus Gorur (14) Joel Robbins (14), Janette Danella* (F, 15), Jared Ely* (14), Emma Foley (F, 14), Emily Krantz (F, 15), Neal Overbeck (16), Ryan Catania (16), Alex Tyler (F, 16), Elaine Ruiz (F, 16), John Watson (16), Andrew Carver (16), Matthew Robinson (16), Raph Samost (16). Kezia Janoj (20), Arienne Saldanha(20), Arianna Rivera(20), Zei Alali(20), Evan Dubrunfaut(20), Andrew Shevchuk(20), Hunter Banavage (21), Dalton Wright (21), Michael Chen (23), Edward Gadasu (23)

 

Freshmen Design: Miguel Armijos, John Hutchins, Justin Sadler, Jarrod Thomas, Sara Miller, Larry Wilson, Bon Lopez-Jacobs, Martin Stanley, Joseph Grippe, Derick Haas, Darren D’Achille, Brian Bobb and Trevor Alexander, Russell Marron, Chris Dorgan, Patrick Perhosky, Sean Miller and Michael Kane, Maryam Ahmad, Chidiogo Ike-Egbuonu, Sachi Jayasuriya, Chern-Hoi Lim, Allison Lloyd.

 

REU students and Teacher: Jennifer Clyde (03), Hilary McWilliams (05), Genai Odhner (07), Rucha Shah (08), Amy Miller (09), Natalie Klotz (11)