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Bio-Inspired Science 2
Three Engineering Faculty
Elected to CASE
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Huey’s Work on Cover of
the Journal of American
Ceramics
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Multiferroic Megnetoelec-
trics - Menka Jain
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New Faculty Member:
Jason Hancock
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Carter Elected AAAS
Fellow
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Owen F. Devereux: 1937-
2012
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Memorial Symposium in
Honor of Samuel J. Huang
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Polymer Seminar Series 8
CMBE Seminar Series 9
IMS Associates Program
Short Course: “Smart
Polymers: Old Dog, New
Tricks”
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Employment Web Page 11
Toxic and Bio-
Contaminated Samples
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Mid-Length Projects Pro-
gram
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Large Sample Quantities 11
Sample Preparation 11
IMS Picnic on the Patio 12
Fall Semester Classes 12
IMS Associates Program
Staff
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Nanomanufacturing: Next ‘Big’ Thing for CT
May Be the Smallest Things Ever Made
ing department and director of the Institute of Materials Sci-ence at the University of Con-necticut. “Any metals structure produced today likely has nanoparticles embedded in it to strengthen it.”
Harris Marcus and Fotios Papadimi-trakopoulos, Director and Associate Director of the Institute of Materials Science, were featured in a recent article in the Bulletin of the Con-necticut Academy of Science and Engineering. For the full article visit: http://www.ctcase.org/bulletin/27_2/27_2.pdf . The next “big” thing in science & technology just might be the crea-tion of some of the smallest things ever made.
Considered by some a “new tech-nology area” and by others an evo-lution of the science of nanotech-nology, nanomanufacturing is get-ting a lot of attention these days. “The use of nanoparticles is not new,” said CASE member Harris Marcus, professor in the chemical, materials & biomolecular engineer-
ment efforts in both Advanced Manufacturing and Materials. If you can indicate the areas of future importance to you we may be able to de-sign in the appropriate capability if it is not al-ready planned. Please let us know how this capa-bility would be useful to you.
If you have any questions, suggestions or com-ments regarding the Tech-Park’s value to your company please contact Harris Marcus, <[email protected]> or by phone at (860) 486-4623. We look forward to industry’s active participation in designing the capabilities of the Tech Park’s first building and committing to work utilizing that capability.
As previously announced (http://today.uconn.edu/
blog/2011/04/plans-to-build-tech-park-at-uconn-
announced/), plans for the construction of a multi-
million dollar tech park on the University of Con-necticut Storrs campus are underway. An archi-tect has been hired and design of the building is in progress. The plan will include the design of spaces and capabilities to meet the high tech demands of development efforts in advanced materials and advanced manufacturing, the two main thrust areas to be addressed with industry in the building. Construction will start shortly after the preliminary plans are developed with completion expected in FY15.
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The IMS Associates Program Newsletter
The news is that people are now looking to build on the knowl-edge that has been amassed in the science of nanotechnology to revolutionize not only the way things are made, but also how this new class of products will affect everyday life. That’s where
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cles in proximity to each other, we know that certain ones will attract and bond in a certain way to give us a predictable end result.” He cites aerogels, formed by suspend-ing nanoparticles in water and then removing the water without disrupting the lattice structure the particles created, as a good exam-ple of a self-assembled material.
“They are one of the lightest mate-rials on earth, they are structurally strong and don’t conduct heat,” Manzione said. “They are formed using self-assembly. By putting given particles in proximity to each other, the particles unite and form the aerogel. So, we are already seeing useful products as a result of the ‘self-assembly’ principles of nanomanufacturing.”
Another form of nanomanufactur-ing occurs when nanoparticles are used to create ever-smaller prod-ucts that incorporate nanotechnol-ogy. “This area holds great promise because, for the first time, we can build specific machines at the mo-lecular level,” Manzione said.
For CASE member Fotios Papadimi-trakopoulos, associate director of the Institute of Materials Science and professor of chemistry at UConn, this is an example of top-down application of nanomanufac-turing. “We are taking things we currently make and using nano-manufacturing to make them smaller,” he said, citing the com-puter chip as an example.
nanomanufacturing comes in.
“People are now looking to reduce the size of the particles embedded and also looking to make inte-grated nanosystems that can do jobs that were never before possi-ble,” Marcus explained.
For CASE member Louis Manzione, dean of the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture at the University of Hartford, one of the key differentiators of nanomanu-facturing is self-assembly. “We are, for the first time, applying our knowledge of genetics and chemi-cal coding to materials science, making it possible for us to get nanoparticles to assemble in a given way that we direct,” he said. “For example, if we put nanoparti-
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Bio-Inspired Science From UConn Today, By Christine Buckley. For the complete article visit:
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2012/07/bioinspired-science/?
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Yao Lin, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (and member of IMS, Ed.), is inspired by nature. But despite the joys of walking by a beautiful stream and savoring a golden sunset, what really drives him is inspiration from the envi-ronment that could lead to new technologies.
“I’m interested in bio-inspired science,” he says. “I want to use the concepts of nature to make smarter materials.”
In particular, says Lin, the movements and communication between proteins – the building blocks of all life – have long stumped scientists. Chemists approximate their structure using smaller strings of polymers.
“There’s no way synthetic materials can compete with this kind of sophistication yet,” says Lin. “In biology it is essential that proteins fold together and self-organize at the
right position at the right times. We’re trying to incorporate that cooperativity into our synthetic mole-cules.”
This molecular cooperativity is what makes proteins work together to form, say, fibers on the wall of a cell in your body, or the right enzymes to digest your food. In nature, says Lin, there’s not a big computer telling all the different pieces where to go and what to do – they can all communicate naturally, which is a big leap ahead of any synthetic material.
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In 2011, Lin and his colleagues created a new family of what’s called giant supramolecules, made up of many octopus-like polymers that wrap around each other into a hollow tube, similarly to the natural folding and self-organization of a class of proteins called tubulins. The tube then twists again into a double helix, making the new molecules potentially very strong but lightweight.
Early in 2012, Lin received a five-year, half-million dollar CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to con-tinue this work, looking especially at natural self-healing fibers like silk.
“Silk is both strong and stable,” says Lin. “How does it do it?”
When asked if this strong, flexible, and lightweight material could be strong enough to stop bullets, potentially paving the way for a superhero suit of the future, Lin laughs. He doesn’t set those kinds of benchmarks, he says.
“If we understand the concept, somebody else can take it and make it into something useful,” he explains.
That’s really the part he loves about science, he says – discovery.
“I really like it when students bring in unexpected results,” he says. “When you’re always solving puzzles, it’s like being a kid. You stay young.”
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Three Engineering Faculty Elected To CASE
By John C. Giardina. From the School of Engineering News and Events.
For the complete article visit: http://news.engr.uconn.edu/three-
engineering-faculty-elected-to-case.php
Three UConn engineering faculty were inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) on May 31, during a gala event held at the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs. They are among 39 new members who were elected in the 2012 class, which also includes eight other faculty members from the University of Connecti-cut.
The newly elected members from the School of Engineering are:
S. Pamir Alpay, professor of Materials Science in the Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (MS&E Program Direc-tor and member of IMS, Ed.). Dr. Alpay’s research concentrates on func-tional or “smart” materials systems, including ferroelectric, ferromag-netic, and shape memory materials. His current research focuses on the development of frequency agile tunable devices for telecommunications and self-healing electrical contacts for military applications. Dr. Alpay was named a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Associate Profes-sor in Engineering Innovation (2008 – 2010), has authored more than 110 scholarly journal papers and received in excess of 2,500 citations. He is currently an Editor of the Journal of Materials Science.
Also elected from the School of Engineering were: Radenka Maric, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Professor of Sustainable Energy in the Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Depart-ment and Prabhakar Singh, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Chair Professor of Fuel Cell Technology and Director of the Center for Clean Energy Engineering at UConn.
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Dr. Huey notes that the paper documents the high-est spatial and temporal resolution of directly ob-served switching steps, the fastest images published to date, the first mapping of nucleation times and growth velocities crucial to the switching efficiency, the observation of fatigue caused by multiple switching events, and measurement of the spatial and energetic distribution of defects that influence switching dynamics including grain boundaries, in-dentation sites, and microcracks.
The scans appearing on the cover (R. Nath, B. D. Huey) show ferroelectric domain evolution during polarization cycling between [001] and [001 ̅ ] orien-tations, taken from 256 consecutive High Speed SPM images of a PZT thin film (3 µm x 3 µm, 3 sec-onds per frame).
Huey’s Work on Cover of the Journal of the American Ceramics Society
From the School of Engineering News and Events. For
the complete article visit: http://
news.engr.uconn.edu/faculty-news-2.php
The work of Dr. Bryan Huey (Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering and member of IMS, ed.) and three members of his research team, Drs. R.N. Premnath, S. Lee and N.A. Polomoff, was featured on the cover of the April 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Soci-ety. Their paper, entitled “High Speed SPM Ap-plied for Direct Nanoscale Mapping of the Influ-ence of Defects on Ferroelectric Switching Dy-namics,” reviews the team’s development and application of high speed atomic force micros-copy techniques to investigate the switching
process in data storage materials.
Multiferroic Magnetoelectrics - Menka Jain Menka Jain, a faculty member in the department of Physics and the Institute of Materials Science, has recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation. This project is focussed on improving the understanding of composite materials critical for making multifunctional devices. Specifically, the materials being studied are multiferroic magnetoelectrics that simultane-ously have both magnetic and ferroelectric properties. The ap-proach focuses on controlling interfacial diffusion and reactions (through careful selection of materials, processing parameters, and other phenomena) in the nanocomposites with intimately connected piezoelectric and magnetostrictive phases in order to reduce the leakage currents and hence improve the magneto-electric coupling in these composites. The funding will allow her to expand upon her ongoing work in functional and multifunc-tional nanomaterials and nanocomposites for various device applications.
In addition to the grant, Dr. Jain also organized a symposium titled “Solution Synthesis of Inorganic Films and Nanostructured Materials” in the Materials Research Society Spring meeting. The symposium brought together 18 distinguished solution synthesis experts from around the world from different universities, national labs, and industries.
New Faculty Member: Dr. Jason Hancock This fall we welcome a new faculty member to the Physics Department and IMS, Dr. Jason Hancock. Jason re-ceived his PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2005 and has held research positions at Stanford University, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the University de Geneva in Switzer-land.
Dr. Hancock is broadly interested in the physics of materials with special training and experience in use of pho-tons to create and study charge and spin excitations in interesting materials. These techniques include time and frequency-domain spectroscopy in the laboratory, but also inelastic X-ray scattering at large-scale synchrotron facilities around the world. He has held scientific advisory positions with the Advanced Photon Source at Ar-
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gonne National Laboratory and has served as referee for Physical Review Letters, Europhysics Letters, Physical Review B, and Advanced Materials.
Recent publications include:
Na2IrO3 as a Novel Relativistic Mott Insulator with a 350 meV Gap, Cond-mat/1204.4471, R. Comin, G. Levy, B. Ludbrook, Z.-H. Zhu, C.N. Veenstra, J.A. Rosen, Yogesh Singh, P. Gegenwart, D. Stricker, J.N. Hancock, D. van der Marel, I.S. Elfimov, A. Damascelli. (submitted)
Prone to Pair, Dirk van der Marel and Jason N. Hancock, Physics, 4, 89 (2011)
Surface state Charge Dynamics of a High-Mobility Three Dimensional Topological Insulator, Jason N. Hancock, J. L. M. van Mechelen, Alexey B. Kuzmenko, Dirk van der Marel, C. Brüne, E. G. Novik, G. V. Astakhov, H. Buhmann, Laurens Molenkamp, Physical Review Letters, 107, 136803 (2011)
Measurement of Magnetic Excitations in the Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Sr2CuO2Cl2 Insulator Us-ing Resonant X-Ray Scattering: Evidence for Extended Interactions, Marco Guarise, B. Dalla Piazza, Marco Moretti Sala, Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Lucio Braicovich, Helmuth Berger, Jason N. Hancock, Dirk van der Marel, Thorsten Schmitt, Victor N. Strocov, Luuk J. P. Ament, Joroen van den Brink, P.-H. Lin, P. Xu, Henrik M. Rønnow, Marco Grioni. Physical Review Letters, 105, 157006 (2010) arXiv:1004.2441.
Unraveling the Nature of Charge Excitations in La2CuO4 with Momentum-Resolved Cu K-edge Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering, Cheng-chien Chen, Brian Moritz, François Vernay, Jason N. Hancock, Steven Johnston, Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Martin Greven, Ilya Elfimov, George Sawatzky, Tom Devereaux. Physical Review Letters, 105, 177401 (2010) arXiv:1002.4683.
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New Faculty Member: Dr. Jason Hancock
Carter Elected AAAS Fellow From the School of Engineering, News and Events. For the complete article visit: http://
news.engr.uconn.edu/carter-elected-aaas-fellow.php
Dr. C. Barry Carter, Department Head of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (and member of IMS, ed.), has been named a 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Ad-vancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. The organization’s scope includes publication of Science magazine and educational and policy initiatives.
Dr. Carter is a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the American Ceramic Society. He is also an elected member of the Con-necticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).
Dr. Carter was honored by AAAS for his distinguished contributions to engineering through his textbooks on ceramic materials and transmission electron microscopy, his editorial leader-ship, which includes his service as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Science, and his study of crystal defects. His textbooks, Ceramic Materials: Science & Engineering (co-written with M.G. Norton; 2007) and Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science (co-written with D.B. Williams; 2nd ed., 2009), have been concurrently listed on Springer’s 15 most downloaded books on chemistry and materials science. He has published more than 700 articles on a wide range of crystal defects, with 300 in archival journals.
His awards include the Berndt Matthias Scholar Award (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition, he serves as President of IFSM, the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy, and is a past president of the Microscopy Society of America.
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Engineering Outstanding Women Graduate Student Award
From CMBE Website. For the complete article see: http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/archived_news2011.html Xuefei Wan receives "Engineering Outstanding Women Graduate Student Award". Xuefei is an ex-ceptional graduate student in the MSE Graduate Program and is graduating in May 2011. Her doc-toral research is in the area of solid-state hydrogen storage materials for fuel-cell vehicles, a pro-ject sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Na-tional Laboratory. Xuefei’s research has resulted in the publication of 15 papers in high-impact journals such as J. Power Sources, Appl. Phys. Lett., and J. Phys. Chem. Xuefei's PhD thesis advisor is Leon Shaw, Professor, CMBE and member of IMS.
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Yang Zhong awarded GEMS From CMBE Website. For the complete article see: http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/archived_news2011.html
Yang Zhong, a fourth-year graduate student from Professor Leon Shaw’s group who is cur-rently doing his thesis research focused on the simultaneous improvement of hardness and fracture toughness of WC-Co material, has been awarded one of ten Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards by the Basic Science Division of The American Ce-ramic Society.
The GEMS awards “recognize the outstanding achievements of graduate students in Mate-rials Science and Engineering” and are open to all graduate students who make an oral presentation in any symposium or session at the annual Material Science & Technology (MS&T) Conference. Zhong presented his research on “Sintering and Characterization of Nano-WC Co Powder – On the Formation of WC Platelets” at the 2011 MS&T Conference held in Columbus this past October.
Zhong has been working with Prof. Shaw to study the influence of processing and microstructure on
the mechanical properties of WC-Co in the last 2 years. They have developed a process for the pro-
duction of WC-Co with outstanding hardness and fracture toughness. They have also published 3
papers in Acta Materialia, Ceramics International and Journal of Materials Science on the synthesis
and microstructure control of WC-Co.
Engineering Outstanding Women Graduate Student Award
From CMBE Website. For the complete article see: http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/archived_news2011.html Xuefei Wan receives "Engineering Outstanding Women Graduate Student Award". Xuefei is an ex-ceptional graduate student in the MSE Graduate Program and is graduating in May 2011. Her doc-toral research is in the area of solid-state hydrogen storage materials for fuel-cell vehicles, a pro-ject sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Na-tional Laboratory. Xuefei’s research has resulted in the publication of 15 papers in high-impact journals such as J. Power Sources, Appl. Phys. Lett., and J. Phys. Chem. Xuefei's PhD thesis advisor is Leon Shaw, Professor, CMBE and member of IMS.
Yang Zhong awarded GEMS From CMBE Website. For the complete article see: http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/archived_news2011.html
Yang Zhong, a fourth-year graduate student from Professor Leon Shaw’s group who is cur-rently doing his thesis research focused on the simultaneous improvement of hardness and fracture toughness of WC-Co material, has been awarded one of ten Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards by the Basic Science Division of The American Ce-ramic Society.
The GEMS awards “recognize the outstanding achievements of graduate students in Mate-rials Science and Engineering” and are open to all graduate students who make an oral presentation in any symposium or session at the annual Material Science & Technology (MS&T) Conference. Zhong presented his research on “Sintering and Characterization of Nano-WC Co Powder – On the Formation of WC Platelets” at the 2011 MS&T Conference held in Columbus this past October.
Zhong has been working with Prof. Shaw to study the influence of processing and microstructure on
the mechanical properties of WC-Co in the last 2 years. They have developed a process for the pro-
duction of WC-Co with outstanding hardness and fracture toughness. They have also published 3
papers in Acta Materialia, Ceramics International and Journal of Materials Science on the synthesis
and microstructure control of WC-Co.
Dr. Owen Francis Joseph Devereux, of Storrs/Mansfield, retired Metallurgy educator, passed away peacefully, in this his 75th year, on Saturday, June 30, 2012, while at Hartford Hospital's ICU following a rapidly progressed illness, also a victim of Alzheimer's, with Livi and daughter, Amy at his side, along with Owen M, Jon, and Nancy in absentia. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Livi (Olivia Elaine Marin) Devereux, and leaves behind his rural farm life since 1973 in Mansfield, CT; a former wife, Sally Williamson of Brookline, MA; his son, Owen M. Devereux of Carson City,NV; his daughter, Amy L. Devereux Gronus of Ashford, CT and her husband, Charlie Gronus; his son, Jon W. Devereux of Stafford Springs, CT and his wife, Gail M. Devereux; and
daughter, Nancy J. Devereux McDonough of Hern-don, VA and her husband, Jim McDonough. He also leaves behind a granddaughter and great-grandchildren of Stafford Springs, CT; his sister, Ellen Devereux Carceo of New Port Richey, FL; nephew, Bob Carceo of Methuen, MA and his wife Gail; niece, Lyn Carceo of Lynn, MA; niece, Cathy Carceo Caissie of Spring Hill, FL and her husband, Joe Caissie; niece, Laura Carceo Callahan of New Port Richey, FL and her husband, Patrick Callahan; plus many cousins. Not to be forgotten are the countless close University of Connecticut col-leagues, friends, and students whose lives he touched over the years.
He was born on August 23, 1937, at home on the kitchen table in Lexington, MA. to the late George
Francis Louis Devereux and Mildred Anna Gleeson. He received his B.S. (1959), M.S. (1960), and Ph.D. (1962) degrees in Metallurgy from MIT. He was Awarded: Research grantee National Science Foun-dation, 1970-76, U.S. Department Energy, 1976-86, National Science Foundation Industry/Univ. Corp. Research Center for Grinding Research and Devel. 1990-98.
His Memberships were: Member American Institute of Mining, American Association of University Pro-fessors, Electrochemical Society (div. editor 1987-90), National Association Corrosion Engineers. His career included: Research chemist Chevron Re-search Co., La Habra, California, 1962-64, Corning (New York) Glass Works, 1964-66, Chevron Oil Field Research Co., La Habra, 1966-68; associate profes-sor metallurgy University Connecticut, Storrs, 1968-76, professor, 1976-99, department head, 1983-98; retired, 1999. He authored a technical book: Topics in Metallurgical Thermodynamics, 1983; and au-thored more than 50 technical publications. His hobbies were playing the classical guitar, the love of horses, driving horse drawn vehicles, gardening, crossword puzzles, woodworking, dancing, listening to classic country music, and reading.
In Lieu of flowers, donations may be made, and are tax deductible to Mansfield Animal Shelter. Owen would wholeheartedly approve. (Friends of Mans-field's Animal Shelter) FOMAS, P.O.Box 95, Mans-field Center, CT 06250 [ Animal Control Officer: No-ranne M. Nielsen [email protected] ]. Donations may also be made to the North Veteri-nary Clinic, 118 Ashford Center Rd | Ashford, CT 06278 | (860) 487-0479 [ Catherine North [email protected]].
For an online memorial guestbook, please visit
www.potterfuneralhome.com.
Owen F. Devereux
Owen F. Devereux: 1937 - 2012
Carter Elected AAAS Fellow Before joining UConn in 2007, Dr. Carter was the 3M Harry Heltzer Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and a professor in the Chemical Physics Program at the Univer-sity of Minnesota. He earned his D. Phil. in Metallurgy & Science of Materials at Oxford University in 1975, and in 2005 he received the Sc.D. degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.
Two other members of the UConn community were also elected Fellows: Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, a professor of Neuroscience at the UConn Health Center, and Dr. Dipak K. Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Memorial Symposium in Honor of Samuel J. Huang A ‘Memorial Symposium in Honor of Samuel J. Huang’ was held at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in San Diego, CA. This special symposium on ‘Polymer Synthesis & Biomaterials’ was organized by Bob Weiss (now at U.Akron) and Raji Kasi (UConn). The invited speakers included a dozen of Dr. Huang’s former colleagues, professional friends, and former students. Some of Dr. Huang’s former Italian colleague also participated. It was a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to the founding director of our program and a pioneer in biodegradable polymer research. The program for the day follows. Sam Huang: Pioneer in Polymer Science Steve Suib (UConn) Two-And-A-Half Decades Of Industry Research. A Reflection on the Influ-ence of Professor Samuel J. Huang Charles Davis (IBM) High Temperature Polybenzimidazole Membranes for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Purification Devices Brian Benicewicz (U. South Carolina) Light Scattering and Nanocomposites Thomas Seery (UConn) Synthesis and Properties of Functionalized Poly(Lactic Acid) Robert Weiss (U. Akron) , Andrew Ro, Murat Bakan, Samuel J. Huang Semi-Crystalline Syndiotactic Polystyrene Aerogel with Sulfonated Amor-phous Phases A. Boriello, Vincenzo Venditto, Christophe Daniel, Gaetano Guerra, Luigi Ambrosio. (U. Naples, Italy) Modification of Chitosan, An Underutilized Biomaterial William Daly (LSU) Natural Polymer Gels for Biomedical Uses Claudio Migilaresi, Michael Floren, Christian Lorandi, Michele Preghenella, Antonella Motta. (U. Trento, Italy) Bioinspired Catalytic Template for Ceramic Condensation C. Hire, A. J. Oyer, Douglas Adamson, (UConn) Superabsorbent Polymer Hydrogels for GI Tract Therapies Luigi Nicolais, Luigi Ambrosio, Alessandro Sannino, Christian Demitri, Eyal Ron, Yishai Zohar, Hassan Hesmati (U. Naples, Italy) Biodegradable Polymer and Composite Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration Luigi Ambrosio, (U. Naples, Italy) Multi-Functional Smart Materials from Hierarchically Ordered Polymeric Systems Rajesweri Kasi (UConn) Miniaturized, Needle Implantable, Wireless Biosensor for Continuous Monitoring of Multiple Bio-Analytes Fotis Papadimtrakopoulos, S. Vaddiraju, Diane J. Burgess, F. C. Jain (UConn)
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Department Seminars: Fall 2012
POLYMER SEMINAR SERIES
September 7 Functional Hybrid Nanomaterials from Polymers Prof. Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University
September 21 Characterizing the Viscoelasticity and Friction of Contact Lenses Immersed in Fluid Dr. Charles Lusignan, Bausch & Lomb September 28 Nanofluidics-Wetting and Spreading Phenomena
Prof. Darsh Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology October 5 Simulations of Stretching a Strong, Flexible Polyelectrolyte
Dr. Mark Stevens, Sandia National Laboratories October 12 Theranostic and Radiotherapeutic Cancer Nanomedicines
Prof. Xiuling Lu, University of Connecticut October 19 Using Interfacial Manipulations to Generate Functional Materials from
Nanostructured Polymers Prof. Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
October 26 Ion Transport through Polymer Matrices: New Insights into the Design
of Polymer Films as Ion Transporting Membranes for Renewable Energy Applications
Prof. Sergio Grandos-Focil, Clark University November 9 Tailoring Polymer Structures for Adhesives and Sealants Dr. John Woods, Henkel Corporation November 30 Kinetics of Chiral Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Dr. Benji Maruyama, Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory All Polymer Program seminars are held on Fridays at 1:30 PM in IMS Room 20, unless noted otherwise. Coffee will be served at 1:00 PM outside the seminar room. For more information, please contact YH Chudy at [email protected]. 860-486-3582 or visit www.ims.uconn.edu/polymer.
All fall seminar schedules have not been finalized at the time of this writing. Final seminar schedules will be available near the beginning of the semester and can be found on the department web sites (http://www.ims.uconn.edu/polymer/seminars.html and http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/seminars.html). This information will be updated as additional seminars and information are added. Abstracts of seminars are usu-ally available about a week in advance. We can also put you in touch with the faculty member sponsoring the seminar to learn more about the specific seminar of interest. We suggest you call before attending to be sure the seminar has not been canceled due to illness or weather.
Here are the schedules for the Polymer Program spring seminar series and the CMBE.
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CMBE SEMINAR SERIES August 31 Laboratory Safety and Hazardous Waste Management
Stefan Wawzyneick, University of Connecticut September 7 Turbine Engines to Hip Implants: Designing Multifunctional Ceramic Coatings
Molly M. Gentleman, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University September 14 Particles at Interfaces: Anisotropic Particles; Anisotropic Media Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor; Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), University of Pennsylvania September 21 Title- TBD Miodrag Oljaca, Cabot Corporation September 28 Biomimetic Surface Designs for Cell and Bacterial Manipulation Maria Santore, Professor, University of Massachusetts October 5 Carbon Nanotubes in Cancer Therapy Susan Torti, UConn Health Center October 12 Microstructure and Rheology Relationships for Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions: Shear Thickening Fluids and
Their Applications Norman Wagner, Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor; Department Chairperson, University of Delaware October 19 Live 3D Modeling with Colloids
Frans Spaepen, John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics; Director of the Rowland Institute, Harvard University
October 25 Title –TBD
Ned Thomas, William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, 4pm October 26 Title –TBD
Ned Thomas, William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University November 2 Title – TBD Stan Whittingham, Professor, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering; Director, Institute for Materials Re-
search, Binghamton University November 9 Interfacial Rheology of Biological Interfaces Gerry Fuller, Professor; The Fletcher Jones Chair in the School of Engineering, Stanford University November 16 Reflections on Microscopy & Analysis: From Viewing the Small World to Leading on a Larger Stage Dave Williams, Dean of the College of Engineering; Presidential Professor of Engineering, Ohio State University December 7 Harder, Cheaper, Greener: The Design and Deployment of Stabilized Nanocrystalline Alloy Coatings Chris Schuh, Professor; Department Head, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All CMBE seminars are held on Fridays at 11AM in IMS Room 20, unless noted otherwise. Coffee will be served before the seminar outside the
seminar room. For more information, please contact Cathy McCrackan ([email protected]) or visit http://www.cmbe.engr.uconn.edu/
seminars.html.
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In many projects that the Associates Program deals with, such as adhesion and coatings, surface analysis techniques are extremely important.
The techniques used for such analysis, particularly GC/MS, Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) are
extremely sensitive to small amounts of material on the surface. It is important to make efforts not to contaminate these surfaces during sample
preparation, collection and shipment. Shipment in common plastic bags should be avoided! Common plastic bags typically contain
significant amounts of additives used to prevent the plastics from adhering to themselves and other materials. These additives will migrate to the
sample during shipment and at best make interpretation difficult and sometimes impossible. It is much better to ship such samples in common
kitchen aluminum foil (not industrial aluminum foil which is often coated with an oil or other release agent). Samples can also be shipped in glass
containers with aluminum foil over the opening under the cap.
Alternatively, special polyester bags that do not contain such additives can be purchased. One source of such bags is the Kapak Corporation (now
Ampac). Typical price is about $200 per thousand depending on the exact size. Be sure to specify non-contaminating/non-plasticized material.
Sample Preparation
On a small number of occasions, member companies have sent us toxic samples for examination. IMS is not set up to handle such materials. We
operate in a very open environment with multiple users and shared laboratory facilities. We cannot accept toxic materials, materials that present
biological hazards or similar materials such as drugs that require very specialized handling. If we do receive such a sample we must return them
(and may need your assistance to do so, as shipping these materials can be time consuming and expensive). We cannot dispose of these types of
material at UConn when they are created by external sources.
Toxic and Bio-Contaminated Samples
The Institute of Materials Science (IMS) announces the continuation of a program that addresses seed research/development projects of an
intermediate length. This program is designed to encourage university/industry collaboration on projects that are too extensive for the existing
Associates Program yet smaller than full-blown university research projects. Typical student/post-doc supporting research projects at IMS (and
most of UConn and other institutions) last for some number of years. Industry often has exploratory projects of intermediate length between
these extremes, projects that may require several months to a year of full time effort. Through the Mid-Length Projects (MLP) Program IMS will
assist industry in matching the available resources of IMS to those required for the project of interest.
For more information or to discuss specific projects please contact Ed Kurz (860) 486-4186, [email protected] or Harris Marcus (860) 486
-4623, [email protected].
Mid-Length Projects (MLP) Program
Employment Web Page The Institute of Materials Science has a web page to help match students with potential employers. The IMS Employment Center can be
accessed from the IMS home page http://www.ims.uconn.edu/ and clicking on Outreach.
The initial job page has brief information concerning each position and a link for more details. Please forward any open position announce-
ments you wish to post to Rhonda Ward ([email protected]).
We have several positions on the website now, with your help we can continue to build this database of information, which benefits both
students and employers.
Large Sample Quantities It is rare that the Associates Program needs more than 100gr of material for our investigations – actually we rarely need more than a few grams. When we receive unnecessarily large sample quantities we must return or dispose of the unneeded material. This can incur significant expense that we must pass along to the requestor. If you are unsure of the quantity of sample required for various projects please feel free to discuss that with us before sending samples.
University of Connecticut
Institute of Materials Science
97 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3136
Storrs, CT 06269-3136
Fall Semester Starts Fall semester classes start August 27, 2012. Some courses that may be of interest include the following. CHEM 5380 Polymer Synthesis G. A. Sotzing CHEG 5351 Polymer Physics R. Parnas CHEM 5382 Polymer Characterization I Y. Lin CHEM 5381 Polymer Physical Chemistry A. Dobrynin CHEM 5394 Polymer Self-Assembly D. Adamson/R. Kasi CHEG 5395-1 Structural Characterization for Soft M-P Nieh Materials - Scattering CHEG 5367 Polymer Rheology A. Ma MCB 5015 X-Ray Structure Analysis P. Burkhard MSE 5301 Thermodynamics of Materials F. Petite MSE 5320 Materials Selection in Mechanical Design G. Ojard, MSE 5322 Materials Characterization B. Huey MSE 5334 Struct. & Defects in Materials G. Rossetti
IMS Associates Program Edward Kurz, Ph.D., Director
Ph. 860-486-4186
Fax 860-486-4745
Fiona Leek, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Ph. 860-486-1040
Fax 860-486-4745
Administrative Assistant
Rhonda Ward
Ph. 860-486-5874
Fax 860-486-4745
Visit us on the web at:
www.ims.uconn.edu/associate/
associates
IMS Picnic on the Patio 2012 Thanks primarily to the efforts of Kim Post, July 19 saw the 11th annual IMS Picnic on the Patio. Spirits were high and all had a good time. We close this issue of the newsletter with a few images from the event. Thanks to Jack Gromek for the images.
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