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