The 2023 Innovation in Materials Symposium will bring together the materials research community at ֱ Boulder and beyond for presentations by faculty and students as well as discussion and collaboration opportunities. This free symposium will foster a greater sense of community and interdisciplinary cooperation among faculty, students and industry.

When and Where

The 2023 MSE Symposium will take place Friday, August18 at the building's auditorium on ֱ Boulder's East Campus.

Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community Building (C120 Auditorium)

Event Parking information will be sent to all non-ֱ affiliates who register for the event.

Schedule

Friday, August18

  • 9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks, Professor Stephanie Bryant, MSE Program Director
  • 9:15 a.m. - Prof. Kristi Anseth “Advances in Dynamic and Responsive Materials for Biological Applications”
  • 9:45 a.m. - Prof. Jason Burdick “Engineering Granular Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”
  • 10:15 a.m. - Prof. Chris Bowman “Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Polymer Networks: A Functional Bridge Between Thermoplastics and Thermosets”
  • 10:45 a.m. - Brittany Thompson “Modulating the immune response to implantable Biomaterials”
  • 11:00 a.m. - Coffee break
  • 11:15 a.m. - Prof. Sanghamitra Neogi “Atom to Device: Designing Materials for Resilient Devices Using First-Principles Modeling and Machine Learning Techniques”
  • 11:45 a.m. - Owen Lee “Design of Ionoelastomersfor Low-Voltage Electroadhesives”
  • 12:00 p.m. - Michael Paolino “Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Water Oxidation Catalysis on Semiconductor Electrodes”
  • 12:15 p.m. - Lunch
  • 1:30 p.m. - Prof. Sean Shaheen “Materials that Think: Paradigms for Ultra-Energy-Efficient Reservoir Computing”
  • 2:00 p.m. - Prof. Greg Whiting “Printed Electronics for Monitoring Soil and Plant Conditions”
  • 2:30 p.m. - Thomas Chaney “Advancing Organic Photovoltaics Through X-ray Characterization”
  • 3:00 p.m. - Danielle Beatty “Photosynthetic CaCO3 for Sustainable Cement”
  • 3:15 p.m. - Jonathan Partridge “Thermal Atomic Layer Etching of Gold Using Sulfuryl Chloride for Chlorination and Triethylphosphine for Ligand Addition”
  • 3:30 p.m. - Poster Session, Company Booths and Tours of the ֱ Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) labs
  • 6:00 p.m. - Adjournment

Questions?

Contact Laramie Rose - laramie.rose@colorado.edu