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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 2012 Short Course will
be held June 11-15, 2012.
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 2012 course whiuch is now
available. when available in
late November/early December 2011.
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The 2011 Institute's Annual Review Meeting was held on April 13 and
14, 2011. Graduate student Lily Liu won the annual Kenneth A.
Earhart award in recognition of her excellence in polymer colloid
research. Best poster awards were given to Bu (Roy) Xu (1st), Funian
Zhao (2nd) and Qianying (Bonny) Guo (3rd).Please click on the
What's New link on
the left for additional information. Congratulations to the 2011
winners. The list of presentations and posters are given below.
PRESENTATIONS
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Title |
Student |
Faculty
Advisor(s) |
| Redox-Initiated
'Adiabatic' Emulsion Polymerization |
Shi Wang |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed El-Aasser and
Andy Klein |
| Synthesis and
Pyrolysis of Pt-Containing PAN/PS Nanocomposites |
Yuzhen Yang |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed El-Aasser and
Andy Klein |
|
Opto-Fluidic Device for the Detection of Viral
Particles |
Yi Hu |
Daniel Ou-Yang and Xuanhong Cheng |
| Control of Surface
Topography for Immuno-Affinity Cell Isolation |
Bu Wang |
Xuanhong Cheng |
| Low Frequency
Electrical Polarizability of Colloids: Consequences
to Dielectrophoresis |
Jingyu Wang |
Daniel Ou-Yang |
| Aspects of Film
Formation from Bimodal Latexes |
Lili Liu |
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| Online Conductivity
and Stability in Emulsion Polymerization of n-Butyl
Methacrylate |
Funian Zhao |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed El-Aasser and
Andy Klein |
| Water Sensitivity of
Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Latex Films |
Zhijin Chen |
Eric Daniels and Andy Klein |
| Chaos and Order in
Suspensions-From Rheology to Microstructure
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Bu Xu |
Jim Gilchrist |
| Inorganic-Organic
Hybrid Vesicles with Counterion- and pH-Controlled
Fluorescent Properties |
Dong Li |
Tianbo Liu |
| Design of Ordered,
Hierarchically Porous Titania Structures as
Hydrothermally Stable Materials for Biomass
Catalysis |
Qianying Guo |
Mark Snyder |
POSTERS
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Title |
Student |
Faculty Advisor(s) |
| Online Conductivity
and Stability in Emulsion Polymerization of n-Butyl
Methacrylate |
Funian Zhao |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed
El-Aasser and Andy Klein |
| Synthesis and
Pyrolysis of Pt-containing PAN/PS Nanocomposites |
Yuzhen Yang |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed El-Aasser and
Andy Klein |
| Redox-Initiated
'Adiabatic' Emulsion Polymerization |
Shi Wang |
Eric Daniels, Mohamed El-Aasser and
Andy Klein |
| Aspects of Film
Formation from Bimodal Latexes |
Lili Liu |
Eric Daniels and Andy
Klein |
| Water Sensitivity of
Poly(Vinyl Acetate) Latex: Crosslinking Mechanism
Studies |
Zhijin Chen |
Eric Daniels and Andy Klein |
| Optically Forced
Cytometry for in situ Bio-nanoparticle
Enumeration |
Yi Hu |
Daniel Ou-Yang and
Xuanhong Cheng |
| Low-Frequency
Dielectric Response of a Single Particle in Aqueous
Suspensions |
Jingyu Wang |
Daniel Ou-Yang |
| Direct Investigation
on Flow-Induced Microstructure Formation in
Colloidal Suspensions |
Bu Xu |
Jim Gilchrist |
| Hierarchical;
Engineering of Tunable Nanoparticulate and Templated
Porous Films |
Zheng Tian |
Mark Snyder |
| Design of Ordered,
Hierarchically Porous Titania Structures as
Hydrothermally Stable Materials for Biomass
catalysis |
Qianying Guo |
Mark Snyder |
| Inorganic-Organic
Hybrid Vesicles with Counterion- and pH-Controlled
Fluorescent Properties |
Dong Li |
Tianbo Liu |
| Conjugated Polymers
Containing Polyoxometalate Clusters as Side Chains |
Panchao Yin |
Tianbo Liu |
Please note that ONLY members
of the EPI Industrial Liaison Program have access to the
presentations. CDs containing the presentations have been
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. |
