Symposium Agenda
Symposium Agenda
Full agenda and speakers listing for the 2025 CU Boulder Innovation in Materials Symposium:
- 8:15 – 9:20 Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Butcher Auditorium, Prof. Stephanie Bryant, Presiding
- 8:15 – 8:20 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks, Prof. Stephanie Bryant
- 8:20 – 8:50 Materials for energy conversion, transport and storage applications - emerging challenges and opportunities, Peter Green, Deputy Director, Chief Research Officer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- 8:50 – 9:20 Polyelectrolyte Complexation: New Physics, New Materials, New Applications, Matthew Tirrell, Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago
- 9:20 – 9:30 Break and Transition
- 9:30 - 10:25 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
Session #1: Battery and Energy Storage Materials, JSCBB A115
- 9:30 – 9:50 Innovating and commercializing advanced battery architectures, Prof. Amy Prieto, Colorado State University
- 9:50 – 10:05 Adaptive Material Design: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Discovery"., Dr. Artem Primachev
- 10:05 – 10:25 Heat Transfer and Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion at the Limits, Prof. Longji Cui, University of Colorado
Session #2: Biomaterials, JSCBB A108
- 9:30 – 9:50 Cell-instructive biomaterials for tissue regeneration, Prof. Melissa Krebs, Colorado School of Mines
- 9:50 – 10:05 A New Biocomposite Scaffold for Osteochondral Regeneration Utilizing a Gyroid Sheet-based Geometry, Laurel Stefani
- 10:05 – 10:25 Regenerative Biomaterials for Treating Disease, Prof. Stephanie Bryant, University of Colorado
- 10:25 – 10:35 Break
- 10:35 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
Session #3: Polymeric Materials, JSCBB A115
- 10:35 – 10:55 Granular Gels: Sculpting hydrogel particles to engineer tissue scaffolds, Prof. John Oakey, University of Wyoming
- 10:55 – 11:10 Polyelectrolyte complex micelles for targeted nucleotide delivery to treat atherosclerosis, Dr. Siyang Yang
- 11:10 – 11:25 Developing Holographic Photopolymers: More Than a Photopatterning Problem, Dr. Yunfeng Hu
- 11:25 – 11:40 Temperature-Responsive Rheology Modifiers for Acoustic Additive Manufacturing of Hydrogels, Lillian Mortensen
- 11:40– 12:10 Controlling Growth and Form Through Cell–Material Mechanics, Prof. Franck Vernerey, University of Colorado
Session #4: Biomaterials and Energetic Materials, JSCBB A108
- 10:35 – 10:55 Developing and validating thermomechanics models for explosives with experiments on commensurate scales, Dr. Kyle Ramos, Los Alamos National Laboratories
- 10:55 – 11:10 Revealing the elemental distribution of In1-xGaxP1-yAsy nanocrystals, Benjamin Hammel
- 11:10 – 11:25 Programming electrokinetic and catalytic patchy active particles by microstenciling and two-photon lithography, Kendra Kreienbrink
- 11:25 – 11:40 Integrated Convolutional and Graph Neural Networks to Advance Composites Analysis, Marwa Yacouti
- 11:40 – 11:55 Flexible Printed Adhesive Bioelectrodes for Plant-to-Plant Communication and Long-Term Electrophysiology Monitoring, Catherine Crichton
- 11:55 – 12:10 Temporal and Directional Actuation Response of High Dielectric Constant LCE DEAs, Justin Speregen
- 12:00 – 12:20 Pick up lunches
- 12:20 – 1:30 JSCBB Panel Discussion with external advisory board
- Professional Development Help for PhD students and Postdocs
- 12:20 – 1:30 Faculty Breakout sessions TBD
- 1:30 – 1:50 Break and Transition
- 1:50 – 2:45 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108
Parallel Sessions
Session #5: Membranes and Other Materials, JSCBB A115
- 1:50 – 2:10 Connecting Ionic and Molecular Interactions to Covalent Organic Framework Membrane Performance, Prof. Dongmei Li, University of Wyoming
- 2:10 – 2:25 Temperature and entropic effects on electrochemical potentials, Hunter Koltunski
- 2:25 – 2:45 Molecular details of aqueous transport through polyamide membranes, Prof. Michael Shirts, University of Colorado
Session #6: Energetic Membranes, JSCBB A108 Energetic Materials
- 1:50 – 2:10 Defects and Dynamics in Hybrid Halide Semiconductors, Prof. James Neilsen, Colorado State University
- 2:10 – 2:25 X-ray Pair Distribution Function Analysis of Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on fused PbSe Quantum Dot Heterostructures, Dylan Ladd
- 2:25 – 2:45 Toward in situ top atomic layer surface analysis with high sensitivity low energy ion scattering (HS-LEIS), Prof. Adam Holewisnki, University of Colorado
- 2:45 – 3:00 Break and Poster Setup
- 3:00 - 4:30 Poster Session
- 4:30 – 5:00 Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, When to Consider Standardization in Emerging Materials Research, Jason Killgore, NIST