February 23
“Polymeric Materials for Lifecycle Control“
Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Format: Virtual Only
March 2
“Engineering Supramolecular Biomaterials Made of Recombinant Fusion Proteins for Synthetic Cell Applications“
Prof. Yeongseon Jang
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Florida
Format: Hybrid
Video link (MIT Only): https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a2ad6e49-69cc-4b05-9e52-aec20167f63e
March 9
“Simultaneously characterizing interphase architecture and interfacial Li transport in Li metal batteries“
Prof. Lauren Marbella
Department of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
Format: Hybrid
Video link: https://youtu.be/58sS8DFILJk
March 30
“Advancing Sustainability: Small Molecules and Polymers from Biomass and Plastics Waste“
Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III
Department of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
Format: Zoom Only
April 6
“Hetero-charged polymer systems with applications from marine biology to biomedicine“
Prof. Matthew V. Tirrell
Dean, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago
Format: Hybrid
April 27
“Tunable Multifunctional Macromolecules via Parallel Experiment and Computation: from Drug and DNA Delivery Vehicles to Sustainable Polymers“
Prof. Theresa M. Reineke
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
May 4
“Engineering how cells sense and interpret mechanical cues“
Prof. John T. Ngo
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Video: https://youtu.be/SHvnViv3vJY
May 18
“Sustainability-Oriented Approaches to Precision Main-Chain Macromolecules“
Prof. Jia Niu
Department of Chemistry
Boston College
Format: Hybrid
June 7
“Unique electronic structure and photonic functions of head-to-tail type p-conjugated dendrimers“
Prof. Ken Albrecht
Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
Kyushu University
Format: Hybrid