On Friday, Oct. 19, 2019, the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) held its annual Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations to this year’s winners!
Poster presentations:
1st Place: Liliana Bello, “The Structure and Dynamics of Redox Active Polymers for Flow Battery Applications” (Sing Group)
2nd Place: Prapti Kafle, “Dynamic-template-directed crystallization of 2D conjugated polymer thin films and their distinct electronic properties” (Diao Group)
3rd Place: Matthew Chan, “The Substrate Import Mechanism of the Human Serotonin Transporter” (Shukla Group)
Oral presentations:
1st Place: Bijal Patel, “Nonequilibrium Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers for Tunable Nanoscale Morphology and Photonic Properties through 3D Solution Printing” (Diao Group)
2nd Place: Jiangyan Feng, “Role of substrate recognition in modulating strigolactone receptor selectivity” (Shukla Group)
3rd Place: Kartik Kamat, “Diabat Method for Polymorph Free-Energy Differences” (Peters Group)
Thank you to the alumni who served as judges this year: Ryan Stephens (PhD ’08, Alkire), Marc Viera (PhD ’02, Higdon), Ritika Mohan (PhD ’14, Kenis) and Wenjuan Zha (PhD ’07, Zhao).