9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Check-in at FASB Lobby
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Opening Session at Room 1 (FASB 295)
09:30 AM - 9:40 AM
Opening Remarks
ACS Utah Polymer Student Chapter
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Industry Talk
Robert Roden from GO Composites
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM: Break
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM: Student Presentations Session 1
Room 3 (FASB 330)
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Dr. Kevin Stewart
Molecular Weight and Free Volume Control in Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Muhamed Duhandzic
Impact of doping on carrier localization and transport in conjugated polymers
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Kim Tomchak
Balancing Biodegradation and Function in Chitosan-Containing Covalent Adaptable Networks
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Garrett Collins
The Impact of Fluorinated Anions on Organic Mixed Conductors
Room 2 (FASB 250)
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Grant Musgrave
Solventless Dual-Cure Liquid Resins Via Circular Use of Phthalic Anhydride for Recyclable Composite Applications
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Seth Jackson
Enhancing N-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors by Blending Polymers with Alkyl and Oligoglycol Side Chains
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Lars Nelson
Modeling step polymerization with reactive diffusive particle dynamics simulation
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM: Lunch Break & Poster Setup
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM: Industry Talk at Room 1 (FASB 295)
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Industry Talk
Cameron Reynolds and Lauren Smith from 3Form
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM: Polymer Trivia
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Poster Session at FASB Lobby
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Student Presentations Session 2
Room 1 (FASB 295)
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Eric Constant
Mechanically Robust Multimaterial for Additive Manufacturing
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Ramsey Issa
Uncovering Polymer Network Formation Parameters Via Latent Variable Modeling
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Billy Chen
Solventless Acrylate-Acid-Epoxy Orthogonal Polymerizations for Recyclable Liquid Composite Molding
Room 2 (FASB 250)
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Jerry Chen
Photopolymerization of microporous network via thiol-ene photopolymerization induced phase separation
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Aashish Tsunduru
PFAS at fluid-fluid interfaces, Molecular dynamics study
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Selma Kadic
Semicrystalline Photopolymer Networks Synthesized by Orthogonal Neat Polymerization Reactions
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM: Break
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM: Faculty Rapid-Fire Talks at Room 1 (FASB 295)
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Dr. Douglas Tree
Multiscale Assembly of Polymer Materials away from Equilibrium
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM
Dr. Jiyuan Yang
Biomedical Polymers in Kopeček/Yang Laboratory
4:30 PM - 4:40 PM
Dr. Jacob Lessard
Molecular Weight Control in Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
4:40 PM - 4:50 PM
Dr. Nitish Khurana
Polymeric Materials for Reducing Drug Adsorption in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenators (ECMO)
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM: Award Announcement and Closing Remarks at Room 1 (FASB 295)