In Honor of C. Grant Willson
Rashid Engineering Regents Chair, McKetta Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Schedule of Events
8:15-8:45: Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00: Welcome address
9:00-9:30: Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University, “Patterning and Actuating Soft Materials”
9:30-10:00: Qinghuang Lin, IBM, “Wafer-Scale Nanofabrication for Detecting and Controlling Single DNA Molecules: A Tribute to Professor Grant Willson”
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-10:45: Brian Long, University of Tennessee, “Siloxane Functionalized Polynorbornenes as Gas Separation Membranes”
10:45-11:15: Scott M. Grayson, Tulane University, “Cyclic polymers: Synthesis and potential applications”
11:15-11:45: Clifford Henderson, Georgia Tech, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Large Scale Nanomanufacturing Using Block Copolymer Directed Self Assembly”
12:00-1:00: Break
1:15-1:45: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, “Advanced Functional Layer-by-Layer Nanocoatings: Graphene, MOFs, MXenes and More”
1:45-2:15: Keith Keitz, University of Texas, “Mesoporous Materials and Amyloid Formation”
2:15-2:45: Christopher Bates, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Connecting Macromolecular Architecture and Properties”
2:45-3:25: Jared Schwartz, Oluwadamilola Phillips, and Anthony Engler, Georgia Tech: “Vaporizing Polymers: Synthesis, Stability and Photo-sensitization”
3:25-4:00: Break
4:00-5:00: Award presentation and address
5:00-6:00: Reception with refreshments