Agenda

7th Annual Notre Dame-Purdue Soft Matter & Polymers Symposium and Poster Session

Saturday, October 29, 2022
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Morning refreshments, breaks, lunch, and the networking reception and poster session
will be held in the south end of the Galleria and the Reading Room.
All technical talks will be given in Room 105.

8:30 - 9:15	Registration and Refreshments Opportunity to network and preview research posters	Galleria (south end)
9:20	Matt Webber, University of Notre Dame	Welcome Address
	Session 1 • Chair: Prof. Letian Dou, Purdue University	Room 105
9:30	Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University Chemical Engineering	"Polymer-based sensors to monitor indoor air quality and ocular response"
9:55	Jennifer Schaefer, University of Notre Dame Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	"Decoupling of ionic and electronic conductivity in solid organic charge-transfer electrolytes”
10:20	Tian Li, Purdue University Mechanical Engineering	"Redesigning Natural materials for Energy, Water, Environment and Devices (ReNEWED)"
10:45	Break	Galleria (south end)
	Session 2 • Chair: Prof. Yichun Wang, University of Notre Dame	Room 105
11:00	Yamil Colón, University of Notre Dame Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	"Atomistic simulations of soft porous coordination polymers"
11:25	Jeffrey Dick, Purdue University Chemistry	"Probing and promoting unique chemistry in nanodroplets"
11:50	Group photo, lunch, and poster previews	Galleria (south end) and Reading Room
	Session 3 • Chair: Prof. Matt Webber, University of Notre Dame	Room 105
1:15	Keynote Speaker: Cecilia Leal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials Science and Engineering and Bioengineering	"Periodic biomembranes and their synthetic analogues"
2:00	Yichun Wang, University of Notre Dame Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	"Inverted colloidal crystal hydrogel scaffold as extracellular matrix mimics"
2:25	Break	Galleria (south end)
	Session 4 • Chair: Prof. Jianguo Mei, Purdue University	Room 105
2:35	Alex Chortos, Purdue University Mechanical Engineering	"Polymer design for electronically activated soft robotics"
3:00	Kaiyu Fu, University of Notre Dame Chemistry and Biochemistry	"A polymer-based biomedical device for pharmacokinetics measurement in live animals"
3:25 3:45 5:30	Reception begins Poster Session begins Poster awards announced; adjourn	Galleria (south end) Galleria Galleria