(CHEM)

Links:
Planning meeting agenda.
Draft of Letter of Commitment (Due August 30, 2020)
Draft of NSF Membership Agreement (To be negotiated ~ May-June 2021)

Day 1

Day 2

Monday of the planning meeting will be broken into five segments.

A. There will be an introduction from the VPs of research, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the three site managers from Cincinnati, Delaware, and Michigan.
Center Overview and Cincinnati Site (Beaucage); Michigan Site (Tuteja); Delaware Site (Martin)
How to Log Project Assement Forms (L.I.F.E.) Todd Abraham (NSF Site Evaluator)

B. Next there will be breakout discussion sessions for which you will need to preregister. Each of these discussion sessions will be hosted by one of the Center PIs. There will be seven 15 minute discussion sessions. Below are 12 video clips of about 10 minutes where the Center PIs discuss their research and their planned activities. A two page draft research project and a pdf of their presentation is also included. From these documents you should choose 7 PIs to interact with for the first 7 breakout sessions.

C. In the afternoon there will be seven breakout discussion sessions for the analytic facilities available through the center. Videos presenting these centers are presented below along with a 2 page pdf describing the centers, and the slides from the presentation. From these documents you should choose 5 facilities to interact with for 10 minutes each.

D. Next there will be three 20 minute discussions by industrial sector hosted by appropriate CHEM PIs. This is followed by a summary of the day.

E. In the Evening from 6 pm to 8 pm there will be poster breakout rooms. You will need to choose the posters of interest and 10 minute time slots will be scheduled.

Tuesday's activities will not involve breakout rooms. NSF will require assessments of the center and there will be a discussion related to selecting a defined number of research projects that best serve the collectiveneeds of prospective CHEM members and that will be described in the proposal to NSF to initiate the CHEM I/UCRC.

B. PI presentations 10:30-12:30 Choose 8

Neil Ayers (Cincinnati): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Greg Beaucage (Cincinnati): 6 minute video presentation ; 48 minute Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal filled elastomers; PDF proposal Aerosol Particulates; PDF Pigment structural emergence; PDF Polyethylene/Carbon Black; PDF Solid Electrolytes; PDF Surface Modified Precipitated Silica

Arthi Jayaraman (Delaware): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Jinsang Kim (Michigan): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Ron Larson (Michigan): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Dave Martin (Delaware): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Jon Nickels (Cincinnati): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Nick Kotov (Michigan): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Yoonjee Park (Cincinnati): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Darrin Pochan (Delaware): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Anish Tuteja (Michigan): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF proposal

Norm Wagner (Delaware): Video Presentation; PDF of slides; PDF Carbon Black Assembly, PDF Complex Fluids

C. Center Facilities and Data Analytics Thrust
1:30 to 3:00 Choose 6

Data Analytics Thrust (Emergent Materials Data Science): Prof. Mike Fry (Cincinnati), Arthi Jayaraman (Delaware), Video Presentation (Mike Fry); PDF of presentation; Cincinnati Center for Business Analytics

Microscopy: Dave Martin, Darrin Pochan: Video Presentation; PDF of slides

Scattering: Greg Beaucage, Norm Wagner: Center for Neutron Science; Video Presentation, PDF of slides

Rheology: Ron Larson, Norm Wagner: Video of Wagner Lab at Delaware

Analytic Facilities (Cincinnati):
UC Characterization Center: Dr. Melodie Fickenscher, Video Presentation; PDF of slides 1; PDF of slides 3
Chemistry Department Characterization: Dr. Necati Kaval, Video Presentation; PDF of slides

Analytic Facilities (Delaware):
Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory
Center for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis
UD Nanofabrication Facility

Analytic Facilties (Michigan): Bobby Kerns, Center Manager, Michigan Center for Materials Characterization; Webpage; Video Presentation

D. Industrial Sectors Choose your Sector/Random Mixer
3:15-4:30 PM

Emergent Particulate Materials (Pigments, Fillers, Additives, Paints, Inks, Coatings), Greg Beaucage (Cincinnati), Dave Martin (Delaware)

Surfactants Coacervates, Ron Larson (Michigan)

Adhesives, Surface Chemistry, Anish Tuteja (Michigan)

Synthetic Skin, Biomedical Testing, Bioapplications Jinsang Kim, Yoonjee Park, Darrin Pochan

E. Poster Session Choose 10 Posters
6-8PM

Julie Hipp (Wagner Group): Rheology and Shear-Induced Structural Evolution in Model Conductive Carbon Black Suspensions.

Kabir Rishi (Beaucage Group): Impact of Emergent Hierarchical Filler Network on Nanocomposite Dynamics.

Lahari Pallerla (Beaucage Group): Compatibility/Incompatibility in Surface-Modified, Aggregated, Precipitated Silica Nanocomposites., Video of Poster

Ugochukwa (Ugo) Okoli (Beaucage Group): A Colloidal Model to Describe the Effects of Mixing Time on Filler Dispersion in Industrial Nanocomposites.

Jianqi Wang (Beaucage Group): Aqueous Pigment Dispersions: The Thermodynamics of Hierarchical Aggregation.

Kiet Pham (Beaucage Group): Phase Distribution of Carbon Black Filler in a Polymer Blend

Ms. Arjita Kulshreshtha and Prof. Arthi Jayaraman: Molecular Simulation and Theory of Polymer Nanocomposites.

Mr. Michiel Wessels and Prof. Arthi Jayaraman: Molecular Simulation Studies of Amphiphilic Polymer Solutions: Structure and Thermodynamics.

Emily Dalton (Ayers Group): Lactose functionalized polyurethanes/polyesterurethanes as biomaterials.

Tucker McKenzie (Ayers Group): Storage Moduli and porosity of soft PDMS polyMIPEs can be controlled independently using thiol-ene click chemistry.

Vivek Subramanian (Martin Group): Operando Electron Microscopy of the electrochemical polymerization of beam sensitive conductive polymers.

Junghyun Lee (Martin Group): Characterization of Electrochemically Polymerized Dopamine.

Peter Sitarik (Martin Group): Functional Polythiophene Deposition and Biocompatibility with SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma.

Norm Wagner: Complex Fluid Rheology Group Structure-Property Relations for Assembled Colloids and Nanomaterials.

Y. Summer Tein (Wagner Group): Decoupling shear and dilatational viscoelastic behaviors for complex fluid interfaces.

Jennifer Mills (Wagner Group): Structure formation in alkali-activated binders for development of sustainable construction materials.

Alyssa Travitz (Larson Group): Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Induced Interactions Between Colloids in Water Borne Coatings.

Nisha Hollingsworth (Larson Group): Salt- and pH-Induced Swelling of a Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brush via Quartz Crystal Microbalance w/ Dissipation (QCM-D)

Wenhao Shao (Kim Group): Functional organic and polymeric materials for optical, electronic, and thermal applications.

Jee Young Lee (Pochan/Jayaraman Groups): Characterizaiton of polyglucose carbonate block copolymer assemblies with cryoTEM, SANS, and CREASE.

Shrirang Chhatre (Martin Group): Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Simulation of Thiophene Polymerization.

Soham Jariwala (Wagner Group): A Rheological Constitutive Model for Human Blood via Population Balances.

Tuesday August 4

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