Program Schedule
All sessions take place in the Engineering Education and Research Center (EER) level 0 in the Mulva Auditorium. Special thanks to our corporate partners Carbon, Rochal Industries and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP for their support of this event.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
| 8:40 am | Welcome |
| Session Chairs: Brandon Rowe (Dow Chemical), Sue Mecham (University of North Carolina) | |
| 8:50 am | New Polymeric Nanolayered Systems by Continuous Co-extrusion-Forced Assembly Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University |
| 9:20 am | A Membrane Approach to CO2 Capture Richard Baker, Membrane Technology and Research |
| 9:50 am | Break |
| 10:10 am | Permeability, Polymer Blends and Membrane Separation: Over 50 Years of Following Don Paul’s Outstanding Contributions Lloyd Robeson, Air Products and Lehigh University |
| 10:40 am | From Fundamentals to Application: Taking Don Paul’s Guidance to Develop New Membrane Materials Zachary Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 11:10 am | Living Polymerization of Epoxides using Mono-μ-oxo-dialuminum (MOD) Initiators Nathaniel Lynd, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:40 am | Stop Prototyping. Start Producing: the transition of 3D printing to 3D Manufacturing Joe DeSimone, University of North Carolina and Carbon |
| 12:10 am | Lunch |
| Session Chairs: Keith Murphy (Air Products), Michele Galizia (University of Oklahoma) | |
| 2:00 pm | From the Early Contributions of Don Paul in Hydrogels and Drug Delivery to a New Generation of Intelligent Materials Nicholas Peppas, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2:30 pm | Making Smart Windows Smarter with Near-UV Organic Solar Cells Providing Onboard Power Lynn Loo, Princeton |
| 3:00 pm | Programming Surface Energy Driven Marangoni Convection to Pattern Polymer Films Christopher Ellison, University of Minnesota |
| 3:30 pm | Unlocking the Full Potential of Carbon Nanotubes Clive Bosnyak, Molecular Rebar |
| 4:00 pm | Don Paul: Fifty Years at Texas; More Than Fifty Years My Friend Hal Hopfenberg, NCSU |
| 4:30 pm | Membrane Engineering in our Life Enrico Drioli |
| 5:00 pm | Reception EER Commons – Level 0 |
| 6:30 pm | Celebration Banquet EER Commons – Level 0 |
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Introductory Comments Judy Riffle, Virginia Tech |
| Session Chairs: Tim Fornes (Lord Corporation), Ivy Huang (Membrane Technology and Research) | |
| 8:40 am | Seeing Things Clearly, Saying Them Honestly and Simply: This Defines Don Paul William Koros, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 9:10 am | Structure/property Relationships in Polymer Membranes for Water Purification and Energy Applications Geoff Geise, University of Virginia |
| 9:40 am | Break |
| 10:00 am | Entrepreneurial Activities in Biomedical Materials Joe Salamone, Rochal Industries |
| 10:30 am | Challenges and Opportunities in Solar-driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction Daniel Miller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:00 am | Membrane Separations for the Purification of Gene Therapy Agents Andrew Zydney, Pennsylvania State University |
| 11:30 am | Lunch |
| Session Chair: Jovan Kamcev (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| 2:00 pm | Challenging Paradigms of the Glass Transition: Novel Experiments from 20 Million Year Old Amber to Vapor Deposited Ultra-stable Polymer Films Greg McKenna, Texas Tech University |
| 2:30 pm | Polymers for High Resolution Imaging Applications Grant Willson, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 3:00 pm | Professor Don Paul’s Early Days at UT Austin Carl Locke, University of Kansas |
| 3:30 pm | Oxygen and Moisture Barrier from Polyelectrolye-clay Nanocoatings Jamie Grunlan, Texas A&M |
| 4:00 pm | Symposium Address: Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends Donald Paul, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 5:00 pm | Reception |
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
| Session Chair: Qiang Liu (Dow Chemical) | |
| 8:30 am | Designing Polymer-based Electrolytes with High Lithium Ion Transference Number and Conductivity Bryan McCloskey, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:00 am | 50 Years of Block Copolymer Technology Carl Willis, Kraton Polymers |
| 9:30 am | Energy Saturation: An Alternative Mechanism for the Glass Transition Isaac Sanchez, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 10:00 am | Break |
| 10:15 am | Precisely Functionalized Molecular Nanoparticles are Unique Elements for Macromolecular Science: From “Nonoatoms” to Giant Molecules Stephen Cheng, University of Akron |
| 10:45 am |
Ionic Membranes for Desalination Judy Riffle, Virginia Tech |
| 11:15 am | Membranes for Gas and Liquid Separations: From Fundamentals to Applications Benny Freeman, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:45 am |
Wrap-up |
| 12:15 pm | Adjourn |