Symposium Agenda

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Monday, August 17, 2026

  • 8:00 鈥 9:20 Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Butcher Auditorium, Prof. Stephanie Bryant, Presider
  • 8:00 鈥 8:05 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks,听Prof. Stephanie Bryant
    • 8:05 鈥 8:40 听Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and 鈥渂eyond-Li鈥 battery technologies function, Clare Grey, Cambridge University
    • 8:40 鈥 9:15 听Recent efforts in polymer deconstruction and redesign, Gregg Beckham, National Laboratory of the Rockies
  • 9:15 鈥 9:25 Break and Transition
  • 9:25 - 10:45 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108听
Parallel Sessions
  • Session #1 (JSCBB A115): Materials for power generation and energy storage, Prof. Ryan Hayward, Presider听
  • 9:25 鈥 9:45 听Mana Battery: Commercializing Materials Science Innovations in Sodium Batteries, Peter Hosbein
    • 9:45 鈥 9:57听听Broadband thermophotonic rectenna for power generation using moderate temperature heat sources, Dishan Chooi, University of Colorado
    • 9:57 鈥 10:17 听Anion Redox for Next-Generation Battery Cathodes, Prof. Kim See, University of Colorado
  • Session #2 (JSCBB A108): Materials for Environment, Prof. Max Robb, Presider
  • 9:25 鈥 9:45 听Prometheus Materials: From Concept to Commercialization, Wil Srubar, 麻豆免费版下载Professor and Prometheus
    • 9:45 鈥 9:57 听Living-Light Materials: Sustaining Bioluminescence Through Chemical Stimulation. Dr. Giulia Brachi, University of Colorado
    • 9:57 鈥 10:17 听Material innovations needed to achieve ultrahigh selectivity in practical nanoporous polymers, Prof. Cody Ritt, University of Colorado
  • 10:17 鈥 10:40 Break
  • 10:40 鈥 12:04听 Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108听
Parallel Sessions
  • Session #3 (JSCBB A115): Advanced Polymer Manufacturing and Application, Prof. K艒nane Bay, Presider听
  • 10:40 鈥 11:00 听Parallax Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, Johnny Hergert, Manifest
    • 11:00 鈥 11:12 听Designing a Viscoelastic Biomimetic Hydrogel for Cartilage Regeneration,听Elizabeth George, University of Colorado
    • 11:12 鈥 11:32 听From foundational research to global standards: How NIST is enabling adoption of photopolymer additive manufacturing at scale, Callie Higgins, NIST
    • 11:32 鈥 11:44听Repeatable, reliable, verifiable: a framework for volume hologram characterization, Andrew Sias, University of Colorado
    • 11:44 鈥 12:04听Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Biomedical Devices: Design and Discovery through Unconventional 2D and 3D Printing, Prof. Jun Li, University of Colorado听
  • Session #4 (JSCBB A108): Polymeric and Active Materials, Prof. Tim White, Presider听
  • 10:40 鈥 11:00听Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers, Prof. Max Robb, University of Colorado听
    • 11:00 鈥 11:12听Unlocking ally ether polymerizations with dithioanes, Emeline Lochmaier, University of Colorado
    • 11:12 鈥 11:32听Catalytic Chain Transfer Photopolymerization (CCTP^2): I gotta figure out how to make money on this thing. It鈥檚 simply too good, Prof. Brady Worrell, Denver University
    • 11:32 鈥 11:44听Leveraging the dynamic Retro-Michael Platform towards unlocking Latent Acrylate: From Protection Chemistry to Functional Materials, Dyuti Chakraborty, University of Colorado
    • 11:44 鈥 12:04听Leveraging Fundamental Chemical Insights for Chemical Probe Development, Prof. Dylan Domaille, Colorado School of Mines
  • 12:04 鈥 1:35听 Lunch Break for All, Student Panel with the External Advisory Board听
  • 12:04 鈥 12:15听Pick up lunches
    • 12:15 鈥 1:15 Student Panel Discussion with external advisory board: Professional Development Help for PhD students and Postdocs (JSCBB A115)
  • 1:15 鈥 1:30听 听Break and Transition
  • 1:30 鈥 2:34听 听Parallel Sessions, JSCBB A115 and JSCBB A108听
Parallel Sessions
  • Session # 5 (JSCBB A115): Materials for Renewable Energy, Prof. Cody Ritt, Presider
  • 1:30 鈥 1:50 听Tynt - Enabling the Intelligence for Glass, Tyler Hernandez, Tynt
    • 1:50 鈥 2:02 听Electrochemical reactions under reverse bias create additional mobile ions that enable hole tunneling in metal halide perovskite diodes, Kell Fremouw, University of Colorado
    • 2:02鈥 2:22听Preparing selective catalysts for fine chemicals production using self-assembled monolayers, Prof. Will Medlin, University of Colorado
    • 2:22 鈥 2:34 听Engineering catalyst surfaces for C-C coupling reactions, Dr. Brandon Oliphant, University of Colorado
  • Session # 6 (JSCBB A108): Biomaterials, Prof. Jun Li, Presider
    • 1:30 鈥 1:50 听Micro-stereolithography fabrication of architected hydrogel composite听scaffolds for osteochondral tissue regeneration Prof. Virginia Ferguson
    • 1:50 鈥 2:02 听Piezoelectric particles for modulating macrophage function, Matthew Kwan, University of Colorado
    • 2:02 鈥 2:22 听Biomaterials to probe cellular interactions with their environment,听Prof. Nikki Farnsworth, Colorado School of Mines
    • 2:22 鈥 2:34听Microparticles with programmable magnetic orientation, Collin Kemper, University of Colorado
  • 2:34 鈥 2:45 Break and Transition
  • 2:45听- 4:15 听Poster Session (Poster presenters with last names starting with听A-M听present from 2:45 鈥 3:30; Poster presenters with last names starting with听N-Z present from 3:30 鈥 4:15)
  • 4:15 鈥 5:25听 听Plenary Session, JSCBB A115, Prof. Yifu Ding, Presiding
  • 4:15 鈥 4:50 听Low-Dose Non-Destructive Soft X-ray Imaging of Polymers and Nanomaterials, Prof. Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado
    • 4:50 鈥 5:25听Chemically Recyclable Multiblock Polymers, Prof. Garret Miyake, Colorado State University
  • 5:25 鈥 5:40 听 Poster Award Announcement听听听听听听听听听听