Macromolecular Science and Engineering
January 09, 2023
It’s not everyday you walk into a classroom and see students using mixed-reality headsets to learn new concepts. Last semester, three classes in Case School of Engineering incorporated the HoloLens technology into their lesson plans, allowing students to learn in a new, highly visual and…
March 31, 2022
Svetlana Morozova, assistant professor of macromolecular science and engineering, focuses on understanding what happens when gels interact with surfaces (This is one of several stories about 2022 winners of the NSF CAREER award at ӰƵ.) ӰƵ…
February 01, 2021
Emeritus Professor Jack Koenig, a founding faculty member of ӰƵ’s Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering whose innovative use of modern spectroscopy revolutionized science's understanding of the characterization of polymer systems, passed away on Tuesday,…
December 11, 2020
Macromolecular science and engineering researchers Rajib Paul, Min Wang and Ajit Roy collaborated to publish novel research on transparent electronic and energy systems. In their article, titled “Transparent Graphene/BN-Graphene Stacked Nanofilms for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution,” the…
November 16, 2020
$2.5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to ӰƵ, industry partners part of $27 million effort to solve plastic recycling dilemma A team of researchers led by ӰƵ will investigate ways to improve how common plastics are recycled, an effort supported…
October 01, 2020
ӰƵ and Polymer Plus partner with Army research lab to develop manufacturing approaches for cost-effective production of lightweight, high-performance polymeric materials ӰƵ researchers teamed up with the U.S. Army and a trio of industry partners to…
September 02, 2020
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to participate in the inaugural Global Symposium on Janus Particles (GSJP) Oct. 1 – 2. Janus particles, named after the Roman god, are double-faced particles with faces of different chemistry and polarity. This duality gives…
December 20, 2019
Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was appointed curator of the Advanced Materials Strategic Intelligence Briefing site of the World Economic Forum. Advincula helped create this site and the categories by which members of the World Economic Forum have used it…
September 30, 2019
Name: William “Bill” Lenart (CWRU ’13)Program: PhD in macromolecular science and engineering; focus on polymer physicsClass Year: 6th year William “Bill” Lenart turned rejection into an opportunity, and not just for himself—for all. After his National Science Foundation Graduate Research…
August 02, 2019
Gary Wnek, the Joseph F. Toot Jr. Professor of Engineering,
has been named chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and
Engineering. A renowned polymer researcher with particular expertise in nanomaterials and medical polymers, Wnek has been instrumental in championing the incorporation…