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Iacocca
Hall, Mountaintop Campus, home of the Emulsion Polymers
Institute. EPI logo on a field of polystyrene latex
particles as viewed by transmission electron microscopy. |
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Our Mission
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To develop and carry out broad-based
fundamental and applied research in the area of polymer
colloids
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To educate scientists and engineers in
the polymer colloids field for industrial and academic
careers
Quick News Flashes
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PLEASE NOTE:
The 2013 Short Course will
be held June 3-7, 2013.
NOW ACCEPTING
REGISTRATIONS ! Course
brochures will be mailed out in early January 2011. If you would
like to be added to the short course mailing list to receive a
brochure, please click here and include your mailing address and e-mail
address as well. You
can
also click here to go to the course web page and download the
registration form for the 2013 course whiuch is now
available.
The 2013 EPI Annual Review
Meeting will be held May 1 and 2, 2013. The list of talks
and posters will be listed shortly after the meeting.
Please note that ONLY members
of the EPI Industrial Liaison Program have access to the
presentations. CDs containing the presentations will be
sent to the contacts at each liaison member company.
Overview of the EPI
Originally established in 1975, the Emulsion Polymers
Institute (EPI),
provides a focus for graduate education and research in
polymer
colloids. Formation of the institute constituted formal
recognition of an
activity that has grown steadily since the late 1960s.
Recently the
research thrust of the Institute has been broadened to
include
engineered particles. The new focus of the
Institute is rooted
in fundamental scientific-based particle design, but guided
by identified
application areas, while still maintaining a core competence
in emulsion
polymerization. The rapidly broadening applications for
particle
technologies in fields such as biotechnology (e.g., drug
delivery, imaging, assembly of biocompatible scaffolds),
nanotechnology (e.g.,
directed assembly of hierarchically ordered, functional
structures),
and others demand a concomitant diversification of the
Institute to
include a much broader class of particles: polymeric,
inorganic, hybrid,
macroionic, metallic, as well as novel particulate
composites designed
at the nanoscale that will span all industrially-relevant
scales.
The Institute's staff comprises
faculty members from the departments of
Chemical
Engineering,
Chemistry,
Materials Science
and Engineering and
Physics,
research scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and
visiting research scientists from many parts of the world.
In addition, the Institute has close ties with polymer and
surface scientists in the
Center for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE) and
the Center for
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN). The
Institute has 13 graduate students drawn primarily from theses
various departments.
The financial
support of the Institute comes from our
Industrial Liaison
Program with
member companies from all over the world,
contract and grant research from government agencies and
industry, and proceeds of the Annual Short Course. |
