CU's Innovation in Materials Science 2023 Symposium

The 2023 Innovation in Materials Symposium will bring together the materials research community at CU Boulder and beyond for presentations by faculty and students as well as discussion and collaboration opportunities. This free symposium will foster a greater sense of community and interdisciplinary cooperation among faculty, students and industry.

When and Where

The 2023 MSE Symposium will take place Friday, August 18 at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community building's auditorium on CU Boulder's East Campus.

Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community Building (C120 Auditorium)
4001 Discovery Drive
Boulder, CO 80303

Event Parking information will be sent to all non-CU affiliates who register for the event.

Schedule

Friday, August 18

9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks, Professor Stephanie Bryant, MSE Program Director
9:15 a.m. - Prof. Kristi Anseth “Advances in Dynamic and Responsive Materials for Biological Applications”
9:45 a.m. - Prof. Jason Burdick “Engineering Granular Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”
10:15 a.m. - Prof. Chris Bowman “Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Polymer Networks: A Functional Bridge Between Thermoplastics and Thermosets”
10:45 a.m. - Brittany Thompson “Modulating the immune response to implantable Biomaterials”
11:00 a.m. - Coffee break
11:15 a.m. - Prof. Sanghamitra Neogi “Atom to Device: Designing Materials for Resilient Devices Using First-Principles Modeling and Machine Learning Techniques”
11:45 a.m. - Owen Lee “Design of Ionoelastomers for Low-Voltage Electroadhesives”
12:00 p.m. - Michael Paolino “Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Water Oxidation Catalysis on Semiconductor Electrodes”
12:15 p.m. - Lunch
1:30 p.m. - Prof. Sean Shaheen “Materials that Think: Paradigms for Ultra-Energy-Efficient Reservoir Computing”
2:00 p.m. - Prof. Greg Whiting “Printed Electronics for Monitoring Soil and Plant Conditions”
2:30 p.m. - Thomas Chaney “Advancing Organic Photovoltaics Through X-ray Characterization”
3:00 p.m. - Danielle Beatty “Photosynthetic CaCO₃ for Sustainable Cement”
3:15 p.m. - Jonathan Partridge “Thermal Atomic Layer Etching of Gold Using Sulfuryl Chloride for Chlorination and Triethylphosphine for Ligand Addition”
3:30 p.m. - Poster Session, Company Booths and Tours of the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) labs
6:00 p.m. - Adjournment