Something you don’t find just anywhere…a 10,000 square foot plastics processing lab adjacent to an engineering college and great characterization and testing facilities.  Interested in making a new polymer composite, using it in a two-shot injection molding and then characterizing the fracture surface with ESEM & FTIR microscopy?  We can do that here.  Sometimes we […]

During the first week of September, many within the polymer crystallization community converged on Genoa, Italy for a 3-day workshop hosted by Dario Cavallo, Giancarlo Alfonso and Gerrit Peters. For me, this was a great event. Several “old” friends in the field were there (Maria Di Lorenzo, Daniela Mileva) and several great scientists that I […]

Summer 2018: It was a busy, crazy time this summer! Just a few of our highlights: 1. ANTEC 2018 (May 2018) –> Our department took a large group of undergrads to Orlando, FL where they presented posters explaining the undergraduate research. Dr. Rhoades gave a talk about the Flow Induced Crystallization of Nylon 66, which […]