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Group dinner in October

Posted on October 19, 2022 by ehhgky

What a great dinner at Solt!

Poster presentation by Quentin

Posted on August 3, 2022 by ehhgky

Quentin gave a poster presentation about “Level Set Representations of the DD and DG Phases of Block Copolymers” in LAUNCH Undergraduate summer research poster session.

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Short presentation by Quentin

Posted on June 23, 2022 by ehhgky

Quentin gave a short presentation for the Undergraduate Summer Research Grant!

2022 ACS Spring presentation from Thomas group

Posted on March 21, 2022 by ehhgky

Vivek will give an oral presentation at 2022 ACS Spring meeting!

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Creating structures within structures: PDMS crystallite thickness and orientation in PS-PDMS block copolymers with PDMS tubular network morphologies via reciprocal and real space studies
11:20 AM-11:50 AM (PT)
Vivek Subramanian, Xueyan Feng, Guillaume Freychet, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Edwin Thomas

2022 March APS presentations from Thomas group

Posted on March 15, 2022 by ehhgky

Take a look at 2022 March APS presentations from Thomas group!

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Structure of Twin Boundaries in Tubular Block Copolymers
9:48 AM-10:00 AM
Edwin L Thomas, Xueyan Feng, Michael S Dimitriyev

Order-order phase transitions of block copolymers within microspheres
10:00 AM-10:12 AM
Wenpeng Shan, Edwin L Thomas

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks under Supersonic Micro-Projectile Impact
10:24 AM-10:36 AM
Zhen Sang, Qing Zhou, Wenpeng Shan, Hongkyu Eoh, Jinho Hyon, Frank Gardea, Svetlana A Sukhishvili, Edwin L Thomas

Joule-heating-induced Multi-stage Reconfiguration in Dynamic Polymer Nanocomposites with Low Percolation Threshold
11:00 AM
Zhen Sang, Qing Zhou, Kartik K Rajagopalan, Edwin L Thomas, Frank Gardea, Svetlana A Sukhishvili

Our publication has been selected for the cover of Macromolecules

Posted on November 13, 2021 by ehhgky

We are glad to share the good news that the publication done by Dr. Xueyan and Prof. Thomas has been selected for the cover of Macromolecules.

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Group dinner in September

Posted on September 27, 2021 by ehhgky

Dinner to celebrate Xueyan’s fresh start at Fudan University.
Thomas group wishes you all the best, Xueyan.
Congratulation!

Unexpected ‘black swan’ defect discovered in soft matter for the first time

Posted on May 19, 2021 by ehhgky

Using an advanced microscopy technique called slice-and-view scanning electron microscopy tomography, researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before.

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