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## Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017)

Date

Sep. 16, 2017

Venue

Wilmeth Active Learning Center (RM3087)

- more 120 registered participants

- 11 invited speakers

- 66 contributed poster presentations

## Schedule

| Time | Program |
| --- | --- |
| 9:00 am | Check-in |
| 9:20 am | Technical Session 1 |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Technical Session 2 |
| 4:00 pm | Poster Session |
|  | Science Forum & Tour |
| 6:00 pm | Best posters announced |

The **Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session** was held on Saturday, Sep, 16, 2017 at the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (RM3087) on Purdue Campus. This one-day symposium attracted more 120 registered participants with 11 invited speakers and 66 contributed poster presentations. It addressed a wide variety of topics from the general synthesis, characterization of synthetic soft materials, to their broad applications.

Eight poster awards were given out to the best poster presentations.

## More Information About 2017 Symposium

The **Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session** will be held on Saturday, Sep, 16, 2017 at the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (RM3087) on Purdue Campus. This one-day symposium addresses the general synthesis and characterization of synthetic soft materials and their broad applications. In addition, the symposium will include a Science Forum and Tour targeting the participation of local high school and college students/teachers.

The day’s schedule, including speakers and topics, is below.

**REGISTRATION**

Symposium registration is now closed.

Please register by September 1, 2017. The registration is free of charge. Foods and drinks are provided. The organizers encourage students (including first year graduate students who are seeking for research groups) who are interested in materials research to register this event as early as possible.

**CALL FOR POSTERS**

In addition to the talks, graduate students and post doctoral fellows are invited to showcase their research results in an afternoon poster session, where prizes will be awarded for the best posters. *Please forward this call for posters to your graduate students and postdocs who may be interested in presenting a related poster.* (Students or faculty will need to cover the cost of poster printing.)

Poster presenters can use the link provided above to register their attendance and poster. Please register posters by September 1, 2017.

**SPONSORS**

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame College of Science, College of Engineering, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Center for Nano Science & Technology (ND*nano*); Purdue College of Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and J & K Scientific,

**QUESTIONS**

Please address any questions regarding registration and posters to Jianguo Mei ([j](mailto:deethardt.1@nd.edu)[gmei@purdue.edu](mailto:gmei@purdue.edu)).

Or, contact event organizers Jianguo Mei ([jgmei@purdue.edu](https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=jgmei@purdue.edu)) or Haifeng Gao ([hgao@nd.edu](https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=hgao@nd.edu)) for more information on the topics and scope of this symposium.

Wilmeth Active Learning Center is a brand-new building and marked in the map. Photo: WALC under construction.

Advanced location: (Latitude 40.4273775; Longitude: -86.913342)

**Parking**: University Street Parking Garage (N University St and 3rd Street), West Lafayette, IN 47907

## Posters

- Poster 1

  Shape-persistent Carbazole Macrocycles as Candidates for Self-organized Bulk Heterojunctions

  James R. Dobscha, Henry D. Castillo, Rose D. Taylor, Rachel E. Fadler, Yun Liu, John Michael Espinosa-Duran, Sibali Debnath, Yuriy V. Sereda, Krishnan Raghavachari, Peter J. Ortoleva, Steven L. Tait, Amar H. Flood

  Indiana University

- Poster 2

  Stimuli-responsive Self-assembies of Cyanostar and Organophosphates

  Wei Zhao, Bo Qiao, and Amar H. Flood

  Indiana University

- Poster 3

  Using Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) with Portland Cements – Effect on Rheology

  Francisco J. Montes, Tengfei Fu, William J. Weiss, Jeffrey P. Youngblood

  Purdue University

- Poster 4

  Scalable Manufacturing of Nanoporous Membranes Using Nanoparticle-Guided Etching

  Naveen Kadasala, Mojib Saei, Taehoo Chang, Biwei Deng, Gary J. Cheng, Alexander Wei

  Purdue University

- Poster 5

  Patterning Noncovalent Mixed Monolayers with Langmuir–Schaefer Deposition

  Jeremiah Bechtold, Tyson Davis, Shelley A. Claridge

  Purdue University

- Poster 6

  Post-Assembly Stabilization of Rational Designed DNA Crystals

  Jiemin Zhao, Qian Li, Xiang Li, Nadrian Seeman and Chengde Mao

  Purdue University

- Poster 7

  Solution Processed Isoindigo-based Semiconducting Nanofibers for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics

  Aristide Gumyusenge, Xikang Zhao, Yan Zhao, Ge Qu, Ying Diao, and Jianguo Mei

  Purdue University

- Poster 8

  Microlayered PET/PVDF Films: Mechano-Optical Behavior In Uniaxial Extension

  Megan Forshey, Dr. Miko Cakmak

  Purdue University

- Poster 9

  Continuous Melt-Drawing of Highly Aligned Flexible and Stretchable Semiconducting Microfibers for Organic Electronics

  Yan Zhao, Aristide Gumyusenge, Jiazhi He, Ge Qu, William W. McNutt, Yuan Long, Hongyi Zhang, Libai Huang, Ying Diao, Jianguo Mei*

  Purdue University

- Poster 10

  Manipulating Energy Transfer between a Photoexcited Conjugated Polymer and Open-Shell Small Molecules

  Daniel Wilcox, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Bryan Boudouris

  Purdue University

- Poster 11

  Mechano-optical Behavior of Nanocomposite Hydrogels

  Zeynep Mutlu, Siamak Shams Es-haghi, Mukerrem Cakmak

  Purdue University

- Poster 12

  Cellulose Nanomaterials: Chemo-mechanical Surface Modifications and Chemical Composition Analysis

  Miran Mavlan, Reaz Chowdhury, Mehdi Shishehbor, Thora Maltais, Jeffery Youngblood, Pablo Zavattieri, Alexander Wei

  Purdue University

- Poster 13

  Reconfiguration of DNA molecular arrays driven by information relay

  Zhe Li

  Purdue University

- Poster 14

  Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for Centimeters-Deep Photoacoustic Imaging in the Second Near-Infrared Window

  Jiayingzi Wu, Liyan You, Lu Lan, Hyeon Jeong Lee, Saadia T. Chaudhry, Rui Li, Ji-Xin Cheng*, Jianguo Mei*

  Purdue University

- Poster 15

  Programming DNA Self-assembly without Base Pairing

  Longfei Liu, Chengde Mao

  Purdue University

- Poster 16

  Can Strand Displacement Take Place in DNA Triplex?

  Qian Li, Chengde Mao

  Purdue University

- Poster 17

  Field Assisted Roll-to-Roll Process for Flexible Electronics

  Armen Yildirim, Siamak Shams Es-haghi, Miko Cakmak

  Purdue University

- Poster 18

  Controlling Open-Shell Loading in Norbornene-Based Radical Polymers Modulates the Solid-State Charge Transport Exponentially

  Martha E. Hay, Si Hui Wong, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Bryan W. Boudouris

  Purdue University

- Poster 20

  Electric-Field Alignment of Polymer Blends with Dispersed Nanoparticles for Mesoporous Reactive Membranes

  SungHo Yook, Yuanhao Guo, Miko Cakmak*

  Purdue University

- Poster 21

  Beacon Like Aptamer Based Bio-sensors Using by Metal-enhanced Fluorescence

  Taehoo Chang, Junkai Xie, Kyle Wettschurack, Ericka Kistler, Oscar Sanchez-Medina, Chongli Yuan, Alexander Wei

  Purdue University

- Poster 22

  Molecular Simulation Evaluation of Macromolecular Transport through Nanofiltration Membranes

  Noelia Almodovar, Bryan Boudouris, and David Corti

  Purdue University

- Poster 23

  Surface Tension Behavior of Aqueous Solutions of a Propoxylated Surfactant and Interfacial Tension Behavior against a Crude Oil

  Jaeyub Chung, Prof. Bryan W. Boudouris, and Prof. Elias I. Franses

  Purdue University

- Poster 24

  Varad Agarkar, Yongho Joo, Bryan W. Boudouris

  Purdue University

- Poster 25

  Doping Effect of Radical Polymer on SWCNT Electrode

  Yongho Joo, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Bryan W. Boudouris

  Purdue University

- Poster 26

  A Spectroscopic Probe of Noncovalent Monolayer Ordering on Layered Materials

  Shane R. Russell, Shelley A. Claridge

  Purdue University

- Poster 27

  Mimicking Nature to Design Biodegradable Adhesives from Renewable Resources

  Heather Siebert, Courtney Jenkins, Jonathan Wilker

  Purdue University

- Poster 28

  Dynamic-template-directed multiscale assembly for large-area coating of highly-aligned conjugated polymer thin films

  Erfan Mohammadi, Ying Diao

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

- Poster 29

  Modulation of polypeptide conformation through donor-acceptor transformation of side-chain hydrogen bonding ligands

  Ziyuan Song, Rachael A. Mansbach, Hua He, Ryan Baumgartner, Andrew L. Ferguson, Lichen Yin, Jianjun Cheng

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

- Poster 30

  Peptide-functionalized benzenetricarboxamides as supramolecular biomaterials

  Michael VandenBerg, Matthew Webber

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 32

  The Effects of Charge Patterning on Ion Transport through Charge Mosaic Membranes

  Feng Gao, Aaron Hunter, William Phillip

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 33

  Explore the Effect of Ligand on the Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers via Copper-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC) Polymerization of AB2 monomers

  Weiping Gan, Xiaosong Cao, Yi Shi, Lei Zou and Haifeng Gao*

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 34

  Interfacial thermal transport in boron nitride nanocomposite

  Ruimin Ma, Teng Zhang, Nuo Yang, Tengfei Luo

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 35

  Molecular Fin Effect from Heterogeneous Self-Assembled Monolayer Enhances Thermal Conductance across Hard-Soft Interfaces

  Xingfei Wei, Teng Zhang, Tengfei Luo

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 36

  High-flux, high capacity membrane adsorber platform based on block copolymer composite

  Yizhou Zhang, William A. Phillip

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 37

  rROP of MPDL: Improved Kinetics Through Miniemulsion

  Drake Neilands, Haifeng Gao

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 38

  Orthogonal Loading of Various Functional Groups onto One Hyperbranched Polymer with Layered Structure

  Xiaosong Cao, Yi Shi, Weiping Gan, Haifeng Gao

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 39

  Molecularly Well Defined Nanomedicine with Quantitative Modular Drug Loading

  Lei Zou, Matthew Webber

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 40

  Self-Assembly of Tripeptide amphiphiles and their Sequence-Dependent Nanostructures

  Jugal Kishore Sahoo, Calvin Nazareth, Michael VandenBerg, Matthew J. Webber

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 41

  Crosslinked Ionomer Films For Use As Magnesium Sulfur Battery Cathode Coatings

  Hunter O. Ford, Laura C. Merrill, Jennifer L. Schaefer

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 42

  Enhanced gas separation performance in a novel triptycene-incorporated polysulfone membrane

  Tanner Corrado, Joseph Aboki, Shuangjiang Luo, Ruilan Guo

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 43

  Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers with Post-Functionalization Specificity

  Hannah Naguib, Xiaosong Cao, Haifeng Gao

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 44

  Continuous roll-to-roll fabrication of transparent cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) coatings with controlled anisotropy

  Reaz A Chowdhury, Jeffrey Youngblood

  Purdue University

- Poster 45

  Leaching of Organic Molecules From Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP)

  Md Nuruddin, John Howarter, Jeffrey Youngblood

  Purdue University

- Poster 46

  Enhancing the adhesive bonding of a low-modulus, biomimetic polymer

  Amelia A. Putnam, Jonathan J. Wilker

  Purdue University

- Poster 47

  Production of Flexible and Transparent PZT/Graphene based Piezonanogenerators (PENGs) for Self-Powered Electronics and Sensor Applications

  Armen Yildirim, Siamak Shams Es-haghi, Tingting Shen, Joerg Appenzeller, Miko Cakmak

  Purdue University

- Poster 48

  Modulating wettability of layered materials by controlling ligand polar headgroup dynamics

  Terry A Villarreal, Shane R Russell, Jae Jin Bang, Justin K Patterson, Jacob T Brooks, Shelley A Claridge

  Purdue University

- Poster 49

  Activated pyrene decorated graphene with enhanced performance for electrochemical energy storage

  Zijiong Li, Weiyang Zhang, Yanchun Li, and Zhen Qin

  Purdue Unversity

- Poster 50

  Controlling Wettability of 2-D Materials Through Lateral Hydrogen Bonding Networks in Noncovalent Monolayers

  Ashlin G. Porter, Ashley M. Arcidiacono, Jae Jin Bang, Shane R. Russell, Shelley A. Claridge

  Purdue University

- Poster 51

  Production of Flexible and Transparent PZT/Graphene based Piezonanogenerators (PENGs) for Self-Powered Electronics and Sensor Applications

  Armen Yildirim, Siamak Shams Es- Haghi, Tingting Shen, Joerg Appenzeller, Miko Cakmak

  Purdue University

- Poster 52

  Investigating mechanisms of Langmuir-Schaefer transfer for controlled assembly of amphiphiles on layered materials

  Jae JIn Bang, Tyson C. Davis, Shelley A. Claridge

  Purdue University

- Poster 53

  Phosphate-templated Rotaxanes Towards Molecular Machines

  Rachel E. Fadler, Bo Qiao, Niklas F. König, Jean-François Lutz, Abhishek Singharoy, Amar H. Flood

  Indiana University

- Poster 54

  Polyethylene/Graphene Nanocomposite Film with Superior Mechanical Strength

  Junlong Yang, Tengfei Luo

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 55

  New Macromolecular Design of PEO-rich Membranes for CO2-selective gas separations

  Gregory K. Kline, Jennifer R. Weidman, Qinnan Zhang, and Ruilan Guo

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 56

  Higher-order assembly of coiled-coil trimers into banded microstructures

  Monessha Nambiar, Li-Sheng Wang, Jean Chmielewski

  Purdue University

- Poster 57

  Advanced Micro-Force Sensing Mobile Microrobots with polymeric-based compliant structures for mechanobiological studies and theranostics

  Maria Guix, Jianxiong Wang, Ze An, Benjamin V. Johnson, David Cappelleri

  Purdue University

- Poster 58

  Linear Viscoelastic Relaxation For Crosslinked Polymer Network Above Glass Transition

  Yelin Ni, Grigori A. Medvedev, James M. Caruthers

  Purdue University

- Poster 59

  Understanding Interfacial Alignment in Solution Coated Conjugated Polymer Thin Films

  Ge Qu, Xikang Zhao, Gregory M. Newbloom, Fengjiao Zhang, Erfan Mohammadi, Joseph W. Strzalka, Lilo D. Pozzo, Jianguo Mei , Ying Diao

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

- Poster 61

  Development of Inhibitor Modified Affinity Capture Grids for High Resolution Single Particle Reconstruction Analysis of p97

  Md Rejaul Hoq, Advisor: David H. Thompson

  Purdue University

- Poster 62

  Luminescence of lanthanide(III) coordination polymers induced by UV irradiation and mechanical force

  Yuichi Hirai, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yuichi Kitagawa, Koji Fushimi, Yasuchika Hasegawa

  University of Notre Dame

- Poster 63

  Mechanophore Activation in a Cross-Linked Polymer Matrix via Instrumented Scratch

  Chelsea Davis

  Purdue University

- Poster 64

  Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of O-Carboxyanhydrides Using β-Diiminate Zinc Catalyst

  Ruibo Wang

  UIUC

- Poster 65

  Tunable green electrochromic polymers via C-H activation

  Liyan You, Jiazhi He, Jianguo Mei*

  Purdue University

- Poster 66

  Organic Semiconductors with Urethane Crosslinkers for Enhanced Stretchability

  Nathan Ging-Ji Wang, Hung-Chin Wu, Hongyi Zhang, Andrea Gasperini, Toru Katsumata, Leo Shaw and Zhenan Bao

  Stanford

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- [![Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 35 of 40](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-35.BcQJ8OfE_ZDWMoO.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-35.BcQJ8OfE_ZDWMoO.webp)

- [![Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 36 of 40](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-36.CC5qpWvr_ZRaApt.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-36.CC5qpWvr_ZRaApt.webp)

- [![Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 37 of 40](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-37.Ci4P-ZNt_Z2qzs8f.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-37.Ci4P-ZNt_Z2qzs8f.webp)

- [![Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 38 of 40](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-38.CZa_K7kD_Z23j5Le.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-38.CZa_K7kD_Z23j5Le.webp)

- [![Wilmeth building rendering](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-39.BcPJ6t3q_X8hSw.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-39.BcPJ6t3q_X8hSw.webp)

  Wilmeth building rendering

- [![The Wilmeth Active Learning Center under construction.](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-40.CPxLc3Yi_z5tSJ.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-40.CPxLc3Yi_z5tSJ.webp)

  The Wilmeth Active Learning Center under construction.

## Programs and Articles

- [![Symposium presenters](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-41.CCYF6Knr_2k5dEe.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-41.CCYF6Knr_2k5dEe.webp)

  Symposium presenters

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 2 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-42.BhADQwox_147yXy.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-42.BhADQwox_147yXy.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 3 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-43.BMtXijbw_26NMam.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-43.BMtXijbw_26NMam.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 4 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-44.B1T8Nxe8_1KPUuj.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-44.B1T8Nxe8_1KPUuj.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 5 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-45.D9YuyRiz_ZGIJhn.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-45.D9YuyRiz_ZGIJhn.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 6 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-46.9P8XHYQb_Z1it9z4.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-46.9P8XHYQb_Z1it9z4.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 7 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-47.dYYtkelv_ZNvpUx.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-47.dYYtkelv_ZNvpUx.webp)

- [![Scanned page from Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session (2017), photo 8 of 9](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-48.DuH-75nb_2i26u5.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-48.DuH-75nb_2i26u5.webp)

- [![Symposium schedule](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-49.B7n_hZEB_YJtB.webp)](https://www.jianguomei.com/_astro/2017-49.B7n_hZEB_YJtB.webp)

  Symposium schedule