Fall 2016 Seminar Series
PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. [LIST OF PPSM SEMINARS 1986 to PRESENT] We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Jeremiah Johnson at jaj2109@mit.edu. All talks take place on Wednesdays.
If you would like to receive Tuesday and Wednesday email announcements of the next upcoming PPSM seminar, please email your request including your email address to:
ppst-www@mit.edu
FALL 2016 SEMINAR LOCATION: 56-114
Seminar 3:30 PM / Refreshments 3:00 PM
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NEXT POLYMER SEMINAR:
“Tuning domain connectivity in
multi-component
polymer-based materials”
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Wednesday December 14th
ABSTRACT:
Multi-component polymeric systems exhibiting nanometer-scale phase separation hold importance for a wide variety of applications, ranging from engineering plastics and elastomers, to membranes, to photovoltaic devices. In designing such materials, a key aspect to consider is how the domains of each component are connected in space. Our group has recently studied two examples that hold unique potential for controlling domain connectivity. In the first case, we consider self-assembly of randomly cross-linked copolymer networks, which provide three dimensionally co-continuous morphologies over wide ranges in composition and for a variety of constituent polymers. In particular, we focus on systems containing a rigid structural phase paired with either an ionically conducting phase, or a degradable phase. In the second case, we study the growth of nanocrystals of hole-transporting conjugated polymers and electron-transporting organic small molecules. Under appropriate conditions, the materials can be assembled into highly aligned hetero-crystals that permit electrons and holes in spatially orthogonal directions, yielding a new type of semiconducting behavior.
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COMING IN FEB 2017
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Prof. Tae-Lim Choi
Department of Chemistry
Seoul National University
TOPIC: TBA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
