Polymer Processing and Interfaces

Presentations

• Entanglement Relaxation of Linear Polymers: Revisiting Constraint Release

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Hiroshi Watanabe

    • Kyoto Univ

  Authors

  • Hiroshi Watanabe

    • Kyoto Univ

  • Yumi Matsumiya

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• Effect of the Backbone Kuhn Length and Flory Parameter on Microphase Separation in Brush Copolymer

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Zilu Wang

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Zilu Wang

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Sergei Sheiko

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of North Carolina

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• Stringiness and Extensional Rheology of Polymer Solutions

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Louie Edano

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  Authors

  • Louie Edano

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Somayeh Sepahvand

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Vivek Sharma

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

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• Overcoming Fundamental Challenges of Covalent Adaptable Networks (CANs): Aromatic Disulfide Dynamic Cross-Linkers Yield Outstanding High-Temperature Creep Resistance and the First Polypropylene CANs by Radical-Based Reactive Processing

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: Suazo, M. J.; Torkelson, J. M. Reprocessable Covalent Adaptable Networks via Free-Radical Polymerization with an Aromatic Disulfide Cross-Linker. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2024, 6, 9209–9218.
  Suazo, M. J.; Fenimore, L. M.; Barbon, S. M.; Brown, H. A.; Auyeung, E.; Cespedes, G; Shan, C. L. P.; Torkelson, J. M. Extrudable and Highly Creep-Resistant Covalent Adaptable Networks Made from Polyethylene and Ethylene/1-Octene Copolymers by Reactive Processing with Aromatic Disulfide Cross-Links. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2024, 6, 14772–14783.
  Huang, Y.-W.; Suazo, M. J.; Barbon, S. M.; Brown, H. A.; Auyeung, E.; Shan, C. L. P.; Torkelson, J. M. Polypropylene Covalent Adaptable Networks with Full Cross-Link Density Recovery after Reprocessing: Development by Free-Radical Reactive Processing with Resonance-Stabilized, Aromatic Disulfide Cross-Linkers. ACS Macro Lett. 2025, 14, 341–348.
  Huang, Y.-W.; Suazo, M. J.; Torkelson, J. M. Reprocessable Polypropylene Covalent Adaptable Networks via Free-Radical Reactive Processing with Vinyl Aromatic Additives. Macromolecules 2025, 58, 4847–4859.

  Presenters

  • Mathew Suazo

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Mathew Suazo

    • Northwestern University

  • Yen-Wen Huang

  • Logan Fenimore

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Stephanie Barbon

  • Hayley Brown

  • Evelyn Auyeung

  • Gerardo Cespedes

  • Colin Li Pi Shan

  • John Torkelson

    • Northwestern University

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• Experimentally Informed Development of a Bismaleimide (BMI) Resin Cure Process Simulation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation

  Presenters

  • Britannia Vondrasek

    • US Naval Academy

  Authors

  • Britannia Vondrasek

    • US Naval Academy

  • Trevor Wavrunek

  • Cecil Evers

  • Kaylee Thagard

  • Zhiyong Liang

  • Gregory Odegard

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• Deconvolution of Overlapping Thermal Transitions in Polyolefin Blends Through Simultaneous Calorimetry and Raman Spectroscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Paul Roberts

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  Authors

  • Paul Roberts

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Chad Snyder

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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• Eyring theory for plasticity in amorphous polymers violates Curie's principle

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 2502–2508

  Presenters

  • Didier LONG

    • INSA de Lyon

  Authors

  • Didier LONG

    • INSA de Lyon

  • Paul Sotta

  • Thomas Merlette

  • Elian Masnada

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• Experimental Relaxation Behavior and the Role of the α- Process and the Slow Arrhenius Process (SAP): Exploring Evidence, and Insights from Thermodynamic Analysis

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: White, R.P.; Napolitano, S.; Lipson, J.E.G. Mechanistic Picture for the Slow Arrhenius Process in Glass Forming Systems: The Collective Small Displacements Model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2025, 134 (9). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.098203

  Presenters

  • Ronald White

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Ronald White

    • Dartmouth College

  • Jane Lipson

    • Dartmouth College

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• Energy Dissipation and Stress Redistribution in Composite Gels

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: Mugnai, Tchuenkam Batoum, Del Gado, "Interspecies interactions in dual, fibrous gels enable control of gel structure and rheology", PNAS, 112, 19, e2423293122 (2025)
  Tchuenkam Batoum, Mugnai, Del Gado, "Gel Architecture Controls Dissipation in Fibrous Double Networks", under review

  Presenters

  • Mauro Mugnai

    • Georgetown University

  Authors

  • Mauro Mugnai

    • Georgetown University

  • Emanuela Del Gado

    • Georgetown University

  • Rose Tchuenkam Batoum

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• The extent of nonequilibrium dictates the activation energy for relaxation of molecular recoiling stress in dewetting thin polymer films

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Mithun Chowdhury

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT)

  Authors

  • Mithun Chowdhury

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT)

  • Mithun Madhusudanan

  • Federico Caporaletti

    • Universite libre de Bruxelles

  • Jotypriya Sarkar

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT)

  • Rohit Menon

  • Sivasurender Chandran

  • Ronald White

  • Jane.E. Lipson

  • Simone Simon Napolitano

    • Universite libre de Bruxelles

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• Pressure Dependence of Surface Tension of Polymer Melts under High Vacuum

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Rong-Ming Ho

    • National Tsing Hua University

  Authors

  • Rong-Ming Ho

    • National Tsing Hua University

  • Thanmayee Shastry

    • National Tsing Hua University

  • Aum Sagar Panda

    • Tsinghua University

  • Anchang Shi

    • McMaster University

  • Ashika A. P.

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• A multiscale simulation protocol to calculate contact angles of liquid droplets on rough polymer substrates

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: -

  Presenters

  • Ioannis Tanis

    • SIEMENS

  Authors

  • Ioannis Tanis

    • SIEMENS

  • Jan van Male

  • Carlos Solano

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• When Polymers Part Ways: Modeling Mechanical Failure at Polymer-Polymer Interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Mark Wilson

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Mark Wilson

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Hannah Dedmon

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Elizabeth Palmiotti

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• Combined Molecular Dynamics and Synchrotron X-ray Analysis of Structure–Property Relationships in Nonaromatic Triazine-Based Epoxy Resins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Publication: Y. Kawagoe, Y. Kinugawa, K. Matsumoto, M. Ohno, N. Kishimoto, T. Kawai & T. Okabe: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 26, No. (2024), pp. 24250–24260.

  Presenters

  • Yoshiaki Kawagoe

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  Authors

  • Yoshiaki Kawagoe

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  • Yuuki Kinugawa

  • Keigo Matsumoto

  • Masashi Ohno

  • Naoki Kishimoto

  • Takahiko Kawai

  • Tomonaga Okabe

    • Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

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• From miscibility to aging: Insight and predictions using the segmental interaction energy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Jane Lipson

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Jane Lipson

    • Dartmouth College

  • Ronald White

    • Dartmouth College

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