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composto@seas LRSM 321 (215) 898-4451 |
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Carme Coll Ferrer | carmecoll@gmx.net | LRSM 432 |
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Hyun-Su Lee | hlee0316@gmail.com | LRSM 221 |
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Jihoon Choi | jihoonc@seas | LRSM 432 |
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Prathima C. Nalam | nalamp@seas | Towne 112 |
Ph.D. Candidates
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Matthew Caporizzo | mcaporizzo@seas | LRSM 432 |
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Robert Ferrier | rferrier@seas | LRSM 432 |
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Chia-Chun Lin | linchia@seas | LRSM 432 |
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Emmabeth Parrish | emmabeth@seas | LRSM 432 |
M.S. Students
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Dongliang Wang | wdongl@seas |
Visiting Researchers
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Gil Sloan |
Ph.D. Degrees Awarded
| Name | Project | Date |
| Qi Pan | Polymer Blends Under Confinement | MSE, 5/96 |
| Jan Genzer | Interfacial Phenomena in Partically Compatible Polymers | MSE, 5/96 |
| Peter Dreux | Polymer Adsorption at the Solution/Solid Interface | ChE, 12/96 |
| Robert Oslanec | Adsorption at the Polymer/Inorganic Interface | MSE, 12/97 |
| Howard Wang | Interfacial Segregation and Wetting Transitions | MSE, 12/00 |
| Ana C Costa | Thin Film Property Modification via Block Copolymer Adsorption | MSE, 12/02 |
| Russell Walters | Ionomer Transport and Surfaces | CBE, 12/03 |
| Mark Lee | Peptide Engineered Materials | BE, 8/05 |
| H-J Chung | Phase Behavior of Confined Polymer Blends and Nanoparticle Composites | MSE, 12/05 |
| Pimporn Uttayarat | Chemical and Physical Modifications of Silicone for Novel Vascular Grafts | MSE, 5/07 |
| Ranjan Deshmukh | Dispersion and Self-Assembly of Nanospheres and Nanorods in Polymer Nanocomposites | MSE, 12/07 |
| Chen Xu | Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic and Nanoparticle Containing Block Copolymers | MSE, 5/08 |
| Marla McConnell | Covalent Attachment of NPs to Copolymer Surfaces to Control Structure-Property Relationships | MSE, 12/09 |
| Jung Hyun Park | Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Hydrogels for the Alignment of f-Actin | MSE, 5/09 |
| Sangah Gam | Polymer Diffusion in Crowded Nanocomposites | MSE, 7/11 |
| Michael J. A. Hore | Polymer-grafted Au Nanorods in Polymer Thin Films: Dispersion and Plasmonic Coupling | MSE, 7/12 |
MS Degrees Awarded
| Name | Project | Date |
| Joyce Espiritu | Stability of Polymer Bilayers | MSE, 8/97 |
| Ed Botchwey | Protein Adsorption | MSE, 8/97 |
| C. Menzel | Cell Adhesion on Surface Modified Polymers | MSE, 8/01 |
| D. Ahn | Model PDMS Elastomers as Tunable Biomaterial Surfaces | CBE, 6/04 |
| A. Corlu | Polymer Nanocomposites | MSE, 5/07 |
| Chih-I Yang | Conductivity of Nanorod Composites | MSE, 9/07 |
| Bruce Hillman | Ag Nanoparticles as Metal Contacts in Flexible Displays | MSE, 12/08 |
| Sally Yeh | Collagen Attachment to Soft Surfaces | MSE, 12/08 |
| Chin-Chen Kuo | Dextran Patterned Surfaces | MSE, 12/09 |
| Oydis Gadeholt | Shear Alignment of Au Nanorods | MSE, 12/11 |
Former Postdoctoral Students and Visiting Researchers
| Name | Project | Date |
| William E. Wallace | Interactions of Ions with Polymeric Materials | 1/92 - 8/93 |
| Alessandro Faldi | Polymer Segregation and Dewetting | 1/93 - 5/94 |
| Richard Perrinaud | Interfacial Properties of PVF:PMMA Blends | 4/95 - 4/97 |
| Qi Pan | Spin on Glasses | 1/97 - 1/98 |
| Bi-Min Zhang-Newby | Confined Thin Film Polymer Blends | 8/98 - 8/00 |
| Ahmed El-Ghannam | Cell Adhesion | 8/00 - 2/02 |
| E. Ada Calvalcanti | Peptide Modified Silicone | 8/01 - 6/02 |
| Davide Miksa | Biomimetic Dextran Surfaces | 3/03 - 8/04 |
| George Toworfe | Protein Adsorption on PDMS Surfaces | 7/02 - 6/04 |
| Michela Ombelli | Protein Adsorption on Biomimetic Surfaces | 1/04 - 1/05 |
| Mark Lee | Peptide Engineered Materials | 8/05 - 8/07 |
| Pimporn Uttayarat | Vascular Grafts for Coronary Bypass Operations | 5/07 - 12/07 |
| Yu Liu | Surface Modification of Titanium and Enamel | 5/06 - 9/08 |
| Takeshi Ohara | Swelling of Amphiphilic Polymers | 6/08 - 7/09 |
| Irene Tsai | Dextran/Polyurethane | 5/08 - 11/10 |
| Guoqian Jiang | Au Nanorods in PS-b-P2VP Block Copolymers | 3/10 - 3/12 |