Congratulations to David for defending his thesis on May 2nd! In summer 2017, Dr. Caldwell II will join Material Handling Systems, Inc. located in Louisville, KY.
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Pengfei Zhan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in April 28!
Congratulations to Pengfei for defensing his Ph.D. thesis on “Charge carrier transport in organic semiconductors and solid polymer electrolytes”. In Jun, Pengfei will start a new Research Chemist position at PPG Industries located in Pittsburgh, PA.
Congratulations to Dr. Lu
Group member Keran Lu defended his PhD thesis in Aug 2016. He will start his job at Dow Chemical in September!
Group travels to American Physical Society 2016 March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
The group traveled to APS March Meeting 2016 in Baltimore, MD.
The following research were presented at this meeting:
Keran Lu B33.00011 Aggregate-mediated charge transport in ionomeric electrolytes
David Caldwell II B33.00013 Ion conduction in high ion content PEO-based ionomers.
Pengfei Zhan C33.00009 Effect of Eutectic Concentration on Conductivity in PEO:LiX Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes
Ben Shantz C34.00011 PEE-PEO block copolymer exchange rate between micelles is detergent and temperature activated
Group dinner at Cava Mezze Restaurant. [after mess]
Group Member Attended LGBTQA in STEM Conference in Pittsburgh
Picture: Pengfei received the Highest Attendance Award on behalf of oSTEM@Penn State. left to right: Shawn Abrahams (National oSTEM Vice President for Membership), Pengfei Zhan (President of oSTEM@Penn State), David Falk (Treasure of oSTEM@Penn State), and Alex Brown (oSTEM Member)
Graduate student Pengfei Zhan, the President of out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (oSTEM) Penn State Chapter attended the 5th National oSTEM Conference in Pittsburgh from Nov 13-15 2015. During the conference, Pengfei presented his research poster on polymer electrolytes and received the “Highest Attendance Award for 2015 National Conference” on behalf of oSTEM@ Penn State.
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Janna Attended International Energy and Material Summit
Picture: Janna at FLOGEN conference. (left to right: Dr. Florian Kongoli, Summit Chairman and Organizer, Chairman FLOGEN Stars Outreach; Prof. Janna Maranas)
Janna attended the 2015 Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit and Exhibition in Turkey. She gave a invited talk on solid polymer electrolytes. This time, the summit honors the 2015 “Musketeers” of the closed cycle of materials sciences: from mining and mineral processing to metals extraction and processing and development of new materials.
