Heat Transfer and Molecular Ordering in Polymers

Presentations

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  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

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• Layer Stacking Order Tunes Thermal and Mechanical Properties in the 2D Covalent Organic Framework TAPB-DMPDA

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Aditya Dey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  Authors

  • Aditya Dey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Manoj Settipalli

  • Austin Evans

  • Alan McGaughey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

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• Effect of Hardener Functional Groups on the Higher-Order Structures and Thermal Conductivity of Cured Epoxy Resins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: R. Marui, H. Maeda, K. Hatakeyama-Sato, Y. Nabae, and T. Hayakawa, Ortho-, Meta-, versus Para-Substituted Mesogens Inducing Higher-Order Structures for Highly Thermal-Conductive Cured Epoxy Resins, Macromolecules 2024, 57 (23), 11221–11228.

  Presenters

  • Rika Marui

    • Institute of Science Tokyo

  Authors

  • Rika Marui

    • Institute of Science Tokyo

  • Kan Hatakeyama-Sato

  • Yuta Nabae

  • Teruaki Hayakawa

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• Composite phase change electrolytes for combined electrochemical and thermal energy storage

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Jamieson Brechtl, Andrew M Ullman, Kai Li, Guang Yang, Jagjit Nanda, Kashif Nawaz, Robert L Sacci, Phase change electrolytes for combined electrochemical and thermal energy storage, Energy Reports, 11 (2024), 3931-3940.

  Presenters

  • Robert Sacci

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Robert Sacci

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Jamieson Bretchtl

  • Andrew Ullman

  • Guang Yang

  • Jagjit Nanda

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Kashif Nawaz

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• Dynamically Tuning the Kuhn Length to Expand Property Control of Polymer Networks.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Emilie Moses

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Emilie Moses

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Ed Samulski

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Dimitri Ivanov

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of North Carolina

  • Sergei Sheiko

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Intracrystalline Dynamics in Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and Its Role in Morphological Evolution and Mechanical Implications

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  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Anuar, A., Yu, Q., Jariyavidyanont, K., Petzold, A., Androsch, R., Thurn-Albrecht, T., & Saalwächter, K. (2024). Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate, a crystal-mobile biodegradable polyester. Macromolecules, 57(17), 8507-8518. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00938)

  Presenters

  • Mohd Afiq Bin Anuar

    • Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  Authors

  • Mohd Afiq Bin Anuar

    • Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  • Yu Qiang

  • Katalee Jariyavidyanont

  • Albrecht Petzold

  • René Androsch

    • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  • Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

    • University of Halle-Wittenberg

  • Kay Saalwachter

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• Flow Induced Crystallization in Polymer Melts with Molecular Dynamics simulations

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Tzortzis Koulaxizis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Tzortzis Koulaxizis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Antonia Statt

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Re-entanglement Kinetics of Shear-induced Isotropic and Nematic Poly-ether-ether-ketone

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Planned paper: Re-entanglement kinetics of Shear-induced Isotropic and Nematic Poly-ether-ether-ketone

  Presenters

  • Ping Yi Leslie poh

    • Penn State University, Erie

  Authors

  • Ping Yi Leslie poh

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Xiaoshi Zhang

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Alicyn Rhoades

    • Penn State University, Erie

  • Gijs de Kort

  • Ralph Colby

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• A Kinetic Monte Carlo Model of Secondary Nucleation of Linear and Short-Branched Polyolefins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Ronald Larson

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Ronald Larson

    • University of Michigan

  • Zhiqiang Shen

  • Jeffrey Weinhold

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• Molecular insight on thermal welding of semicrystalline polymer interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: [1] Valsecchi M, Kumar SK, Grest GS. "Molecular insight on thermal welding of semicrystalline polymer interfaces", in preparation

  Presenters

  • Michele Valsecchi

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Michele Valsecchi

    • Columbia University

  • Sanat Kumar

    • Columbia University

  • Gary Grest

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Investigating the Hydrolytic Degradation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers towards their use in Biomedical Applications

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: Danielsen, L.C.; Burdick, J.A.; White, T.J. Engineering and Exploring Hydrolytic Degradation in 3D-Printed Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Lorin Danielsen

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Lorin Danielsen

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Jason Burdick

  • Timothy White

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Theory of Uniaxial-Biaxial Nematic Phase Transition in Ribbon-Like Conjugated Polymers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Jiayi Huang

    • North Carolina State University

  Authors

  • Jiayi Huang

    • North Carolina State University

  • Artem Rumyantsev

    • North Carolina State University

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• Biaxial nematic ordering of conjugated polymers modeled as ribbon-like chains

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Srikant Sagireddy

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Srikant Sagireddy

    • Stanford University

  • Jian Qin

    • Stanford University

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