Recent Progress in Polymer Crystallization

Presentations

• Templating the crystallization of semicrystalline block polymers: from double crystalline to pentacrystalline spherulites

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: "Can five chemically different lamellar crystals self-assemble in a single spherulite?"
  Eider Matxinandiarena, Ricardo A. Pérez-Camargo, Víctor Sebastián, Pengfei Zhang, Viko Ladelta, Nikos Hadjichristidis, Alejandro J. Müller, accepted in Nature Communications (and references therein).
  

  Presenters

  • Alejandro J Müller

    • Polymat and Basque Country University UPV/EHU

  Authors

  • Alejandro J Müller

    • Polymat and Basque Country University UPV/EHU

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• Isothermal Crystallization and Melting of Sustainable Long-Spaced Aliphatic Polyesters. Role of Ester-Ester Interactions on Nucleation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: 1. Analysis of the isothermal crystallization kinetics and melting points of
  sustainable long-spaced aliphatic polyesters type PE-X,Y, Polymer 2025, 337, 129003
  2. Crystallization Rate Minima of Aliphatic Polyesters Type PE‑X,Y in a Wide Range of Undercooling: Role of CH2 Sequence Length and Layered Crystallites. Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 11, 5688

  Presenters

  • Rufina Alamo

    • Florida State University

  Authors

  • Rufina Alamo

    • Florida State University

  • Hamed Janani

    • Florida State University

  • Marcel Eck

  • Stefan Mecking

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• The Role of Oriented Amorphous Fraction on Piezoelectricity of Semicrystalline Ferroelectric Polymers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: Rui, G.; Allahyarov, E.; Zhu, Z.; Huang, Y.; Wongwirat, T.; Zou, Q.; Taylor, P. L.*; Zhu, L.* Challenges and opportunities in piezoelectric polymers: Effect of oriented amorphous fraction in ferroelectric semicrystalline polymers. Resp. Mater. 2024, 2, e20240002.

  Presenters

  • Lei Zhu

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Lei Zhu

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• Intracrystalline chain diffusion, semicrystallinity and mechanical modulus of aliphatic polyesters

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: Y. Qiang et al., Polymer (2025), in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2025.129131

  Presenters

  • Kay Saalwaechter

    • University of Halle-Wittenberg

  Authors

  • Kay Saalwaechter

    • University of Halle-Wittenberg

  • Afiq Anuar

  • Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

    • University of Halle-Wittenberg

  • Yu Qiang

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• Re-organization Pathways of Semicrystalline Polymer: Solution- and Melt-Grown Crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Toshikazu Miyoshi

    • University of Akron

  Authors

  • Toshikazu Miyoshi

    • University of Akron

  • Zheng Huang

    • University of Akron

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• Hydrogen Gas Transport in Semi-Crystalline Polyethylene

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Amalie Frischknecht

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Amalie Frischknecht

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Mark Wilson

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• Interfacial Design to Direct Crystallization in Thin Films of Conjugated Polymers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Lucia Fernandez-Ballester

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  Authors

  • Lucia Fernandez-Ballester

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Jesse Kuebler

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Trygve Santelman

  • Sunil Dhapola

  • Muhammad Ahmad

  • Narmada Wickramasinghe

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• Enhancing the Electro-mechanical Properties of Linear Low density Polyethylene in confined space

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Sumaira Rani

    • Univeristy of Houston

  Authors

  • Sumaira Rani

    • Univeristy of Houston

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• Crystallization Pathway of Poly (Lactic Acid) Racemates in various initial states

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Leilasadat Rokni Hosseini

    • University of Akron

  Authors

  • Leilasadat Rokni Hosseini

    • University of Akron

  • chenxuan sun

    • Zhejiang University

  • Toshikazu Miyoshi

    • University of Akron

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• Direct observation of chain folding in polymer single crystals using single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Sami Eyolfson

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Sami Eyolfson

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Ryan Hayward

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Daniel Schwartz

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Enhancement of Electro-Mechanical Properties of Thin Semicrystalline Polypropylene Films

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Diana Cousins

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Diana Cousins

    • University of Houston

  • Sahag Bozoian

  • Francisco Gomez-Hernandez

  • Sumaira Rani

  • Justin Smith

    • University of Houston

  • Masiuddin Mohammed

  • Jack Douglas

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Megan Robertson

    • University of Houston

  • Alamgir Karim

    • University of Houston

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• Extending Simulations of Low-Temperature Polymer Melt Phase Behavior to Large Molecular Weight

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Douglas Tree

    • Brigham Young University

  Authors

  • Douglas Tree

    • Brigham Young University

  • Aaron Bigelow

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• Crystallization kinetics of polyoxacyclobutane and water to form polymer hydrate

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Publication: Banerjee, Polymer, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2023.126087
  Banerjee, Polymer, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2025.128363
  

  Presenters

  • Sachin Velankar

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Sudesna Banerjee

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Emily Barker

  • Tara Meyer

  • Sachin Velankar

    • University of Pittsburgh

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